We’re Hiring a Designer

Job description: Designer

Contract type: Fixed term (9 months) – 3 days per week

Reporting to: Director

Location: Can be predominantly home or office based, but postholder is required to travel to London office most Mondays

Salary:  £38,000 – £45,000 pro rata, dependent on experience

About Claremont:

We are behaviour change insights and communications specialists, focused on creating a healthier, safer, fairer society.

We help governments, charities and companies to use behavioural science and co-design to solve society’s hardest problems. We do research, insight, strategy, messaging, creative, delivery and more. And our work spans preventing ill health, investing in early years, building safer communities, tackling the drivers of poverty and enabling environmental sustainability.

We are a small, high-performing core team working in partnership with a wider network of trusted freelance associates and partners. The work we do is fast-paced, rigorous and often focused on knotty, systemic problems.

• We are picky about who we work with and what causes we champion. We are happy to work with an organisation from any sector and from anywhere in the world, but we only do work that contributes to social good.
• Our people really care. We don’t waste time with tiresome virtue signalling but we do have opinions on social justice and we’re committed to using our skills and experience to make a difference.
• We believe in the mantra of “nothing about me without me”. Behaviour change communications are more effective when campaigns are planned alongside people not for people. We listen, pay attention to small details and respect the expertise of lived experience.
• We believe in fairness and we treat people well. Staff, associates, clients, suppliers. We do our best to live our values in the way we work: flexible working, sensible hours, respect for people’s right to a healthy work-life balance. We aim to foster a supportive, enjoyable work culture where people treat each other like adults and are given enough trust, autonomy and support to do their best work.
• We strive for high standards all the time, in all we do. We only share work with clients when it is ready and has been fully considered. We take pride in offering a quality of thinking and delivery that most agencies cannot reach.
• We do our best work when we build collaborative relationships with clients. We don’t shroud our work in mystery. We use evidence-based, validated theoretical models and frameworks. We share our workings, we evidence our opinions, we hypothesise, test, learn and adapt.

About you:

You are driven by applying your creative skills to meaningful work. Having built up extensive design experience over the years, you’re looking for a new opportunity to turn your hand to a wide spectrum of issues – from preventing cancer to tackling knife crime to improving early years funding.

You thrive working autonomously and flexibly, within a wider team of comms professionals.

Skills, knowledge and experience required:

Essential:

• Versatile, experienced designer, with the ability to work autonomously and proactively as the only design person in core team, working alongside different freelance Creative Directors from our network to produce assets based on a creative approach
• Experience with different visual design formats – print, digital, including motion graphics
• Experience with UX / UI design e.g. inclusive, accessible design
• Experience of working in an agency/on multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience in adhering to brand guidelines
• Experience using AI tools to support creative development (if no experience, need to be willing to learn and experiment)
• Familiarity with creative tools e.g. Adobe (e.g. After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), Canva, PPT design, Miro, and potentially Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD etc, but not essential
• Demonstrable interest in, and commitment to, contributing to the social impact goals central to Claremont’s purpose

Desirable, but not essential:

• Desirable, but not essential: videography and video editing
• Desirable, but not essential: experience working directly with clients

Summary of main responsibilities:

Client work:

• Creating mood boards / basic mock-up stim for audience research / testing or supporting a Creative Director on this – ability to work collaboratively and flexibly, as we work in different ways with different creative leaders
• Creating creative materials and assets based on a final route
• Designing reports and video summaries
• Giving team decks a visual lift – from proposals, to playbacks, to evaluations

Claremont work:

• Giving our PPT a refresh, creating a new template based on a brief
• Creating more visual content for our own social posts
• Creating designed docs for marketing purposes e.g. packages, creds, brochure, conference posters, basic infographics etc
• Being proactive in identifying other ways visual design can support Claremont’s marketing, new business and internal outputs
• Exploring how we can harness AI for creative outputs while remaining aligned to our values
• Working with the team to develop and nurture a creative culture

How to apply:

1. Tell us, in whatever format you prefer – why Claremont and why you’re a good fit for the role
2. Share your portfolio or examples of your work being clear on your role in the work as an attachment or a download link (please remove any references to your name on your visuals so that we can share it for blind assessment with the team)

Please email your application and portfolio to ana@claremont.org.uk by 9am on Monday 9^th June.

We will be assessing applications against a set of criteria, which are based on the attributes listed in this job description. Long-listed candidates will be invited to interview, where we will share the questions in advance. We will then shortlist and set a task, and those candidates will be invited to a second interview where we will discuss elements of the task. The task will also be reviewed independently by another member of our team. The provisional date for first interviews is 30 June, with second interviews on 7 July.

We actively welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds.

The deadline for applications is 9am on Monday 9^th June.