Branding And Graphic Designer Jobs in Finsbury Park, Greater London
About us
The Refugee Council is one of the leading organisations in the UK working with people seeking asylum and refugees. Our operational teams based in various locations throughout England provide advice and assistance across a wide range of issues, including helping people seeking asylum through the complexities of the asylum system, addressing issues of destitution, and assisting refugees and people seeking asylum to access key services including housing, welfare benefits, health, education and employment.
Our vision for refugees to be welcome to live safe and fulfilling lives contributing to the UK has never been more urgent and needed.
This role
The Graphic Designer will devise excellent creative designs and ideas to support the Refugee Council’s strategic priorities, particularity in relation to income generation and social media.
The role will be responsible for the design and visual aspect of digital and fundraising activities, developing excellent creative concepts that will engage with our key audiences. The role will also contribute to the management and execution of our new visual identity and support the management of digital assets and our social media platforms.
The Digital Team is the central hub of digital expertise within the charity and a significant amount of our communications are delivered via owned and paid-for digital communications. The Digital Team is currently involved in two core organisational projects: a rebrand and a website re-design. We have many different audiences we need to connect with, including the people we are here to help, and our digital platforms need to reflect that.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
The Graphic Designer’s main duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Deliver creative and considered design solutions that meet the objectives of the brief, engaging with key audiences on preferred platforms.
- Understand the organisation’s design guidelines and interpret into creative outputs that are fully on brand and drive action, inspire and inform Refugee Council’s key audiences.
- To assist in the management of the organisation’s Digital Asset Management process, including communicating the need for content, training, guidance on content collection, image selection, key wording, uploading, and editing images.
- Being part of any content working groups, supporting, and guiding staff across the organisation to recognise and bring to life Refugee Council’s through imagery and video.
For more information on the role and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button.
Closing date: 23 September 2024
Ensuring that the Refugee Council is an inclusive and accessible place to work is important to us. We want to enable people from different backgrounds to apply and thrive with us. We believe our recruitment process enables that and are also happy to make adjustments on request.
Job Purpose:
This role is about making sure our visual identity is the best it can be. That means developing our brand, making sure it's inclusive and accessible across a wide range of projects and key corporate assets for digital and print. This role also has lead responsibility for photography and video projects and ensuring our communications are produced with accessibility in mind. The outcome is that our audiences trust us, because they know who we are and what we stand for.
Main Duties: -
- Design digital and print assets that are the best possible expression of our visual identity, including key corporate reports, documents and publications, website and social media assets, event collateral and more.
- Work with colleagues at all levels across the organisation to agree design briefs for planned projects, then bring those briefs to life, taking accountability for the delivery of the finished products.
- Act as principal guardian of our visual identity, supporting colleagues at all levels to apply our brand consistently, and challenging constructively when our guidelines are followed incorrectly.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate: -
- Proven track record as a graphic designer, whether in an agency capacity or in-house. Experience of delivering quality design work in a busy and changing environment.
- Experience working with and developing brand guidelines that ensure a consistent visual identity across all aspects of an organisation's work.
- Extensive skills and experience in Adobe Creative Cloud, including InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
- Extensive knowledge of digital accessibility guidelines and understanding of how to prepare documents for publishing following accessibility checks.
- Substantial experience of working with designers, photographers or videographers to produce high quality content.
- Able to collaborate with others to ensure projects are planned strategically and delivered effectively.
- Excellent IT skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Excellent organisation and time management skills, as well as accuracy and keen attention to detail.
- Confident working with senior colleagues and stakeholders, including managing expectations and challenging views or assumptions constructively.
- Able to work autonomously, taking the initiative and being proactive.
- Takes a creative approach and can suggest and implement new communications ideas and processes.
- Previously worked in the public sector or for the public sector in a similar role.
If this role is of interest, please apply ASAP with an up-to-date CV and your portfolio or call on the number below to discuss further.
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Location: Home working with travel to attend meetings in London, York and Manchester and visit Communities run by the Trust in Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire, Yorkshire, and Worcestershire.
Salary: c.£80,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent, full-time hours
Camphill Village Trust, the charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental ill health support, is seeking a Director of Fundraising to drive significant income generation through a sustainable funding model to enable the Trust to deliver its long-term objectives.
Established in 1954, Camphill Village Trust’s vision is to be a national leader in Social and Green Care Integration, enabling more adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health challenges to live healthy, active and independent lives. Their historical focus on enabling potential for people with support needs through farming, organic horticulture and enterprise centred on nature and traditional skills, continues today - valuing everyone’s contribution, enabling personal pathways to development, celebrating the changing seasons and respecting the rhythm of natural life.
The Fundraising Director will work to the Chief Executive and in collaboration with the Executive Management Team, Senior Leadership Teams and wider Board and stakeholder groups. The role will be responsible for developing and leading the Trust’s Fundraising and Communication Strategies to enable and deliver significant growth in the Supporter base, Income Generation and Brand positioning of a national charity providing Learning Disability and Mental Health Services in a Green Care Context.
The successful candidate will be joining a charity with a strong history and reputation for donor-centric (friends) fundraising, currently raising over £5m per year and a huge potential to unlock stewardship, potential and growth.
The Trust is seeking an inspiring and ambitious professional with a proven track record in senior-level fundraising and the skills, passion and experience to lead the Trust into a position which results in voluntary income moving from £5M to £10M through delivery of step change strategies for Voluntary Income Generation and Communication. Candidates must be collaborative leaders with proven experience of leading and managing multi-disciplinary fundraising teams and in transformation and change. They will also have experience in influencing policy and decision making (governance) at a range of levels, as will be a strong networker and public speaker used to driving networking opportunities that evidence outcomes and impact.
This is an exciting time to be joining the charity in its 70th anniversary year as they embark on a bold plan to shape a new long-term future for adult social care within vibrant and thriving community settings.
CLOSING DATE: Monday 30th September, 9am.