Creative Graphic Designer I - OSD Creative

About the role

This role develops and executes high-quality creative assets for OSD and its affiliated offices across live events, digital platforms, and print channels as needed. The position manages timelines and priorities, collaborates across disciplines, and upholds audience-first and brand standards while communicating proactively and integrating feedback.

Essential Functions And Responsibilities

• Create compelling creative assets across a wide range of platforms and events, for Convocation, Campus Community, Liberty Worship Collective, LU Stages, LU Shepherd, LU Serve, LU Send, and Liberty Pastoral Counseling & Care.
• Support OSD Creative staff with discipline-specific assets as needed.
• Manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment within brief specifications, deadlines, and budget restrictions.
• Stay current with creative industry trends, especially those relevant to our target audiences and church/ministry culture.
• Stay current with industry-standard tools and embrace cutting-edge creative software and workflows, constantly exploring new ways to innovate and push creative forward.
• Ensure all work reflects audience-first thinking and meets the intent of the brief.
• Own and execute creative projects from start to finish with excellence and accountability with clear file hygiene and organized handoffs.
• Handle projects with clear vision, strong execution, and thoughtful integration of feedback.
• Communicate proactively and manage deadlines, deliverables, and expectations.
• Bring fresh ideas and improvements to elevate both creative work and team workflow.
• Embody, upholds, and multiplies OSD Creative’s team values - including proactive growth, team-first mindset, ownership and accountability, positive culture builder, transparency, encouragement of others, and fruit-bearing character that reflects the heart of Christ (Galatians 5:22–23).
• Contribute to a team culture that embraces feedback, celebrates growth, and cultivates spiritual, relational, and creative development in others.
• Participate in teamwide creative brainstorms and contribute to the ideation of campaigns, series, and social content.
• Model respectful and constructive communication in all feedback exchanges.

Qualifications And Credentials

• Four-year college degree, with a concentration in a relevant creative field preferred.
• Proficiency in discipline-relevant tools and programs.
• Communication and operational software and applications in use: Asana, Slack, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, iMessage, and Instagram.
• Tier 1 Education and Experience: 0-2 years with OSD Creative and consistently delivers high-quality work.
• Preferred Experience: 0-2 years in a professional creative position.

ABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES

• Communication and Comprehension: Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing to convey clear, well-articulated information.
• Problem Solving: Intuitively able to reason, analyze information and events, and apply judgment in order to solve problems of both a routine and complex nature.

Miscellaneous

• Attend departmental and official Liberty University Meetings as required.
• Work effectively as a team member of OSD, embracing and fostering the mission and events of OSD and Liberty University.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Strictly adhere to Liberty University policies, representing the University in an exemplary manner.
• Works effectively as a team member, embracing and fostering LU’s Christian model and Mission – Training Champions for Christ.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: None.

Pay Range

$45,000.00 - $50,000.00

Benefits

The position may also be eligible for comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and tuition assistance.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it is our moral and legal obligation to meet the responsibility of ensuring that all management practices regarding employees are conducted in a nondiscriminatory manner. In compliance with Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and other applicable federal and state statutes, all recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications will be administered without regard to race, color, ancestry, age, sex, national origin, pregnancy or childbirth, disability, military veteran status or other applicable status protected by law, including state of employment protected classes.