We’re Hiring a Designer

This position has been filled and applications are no longer being accepted. 

We are looking for a designer to join the team on a permanent basis for 3.5 days a week.

About you:

You will be 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)

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 15^th September, with second interviews on 29^th September.

We actively welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds.

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