Midweight Designer

Permanent contract

35 hours per week

£29,855.00 per annum (National) / £32,880.72 per annum (London)

Location - remote with occasional visits to London office

The Children's Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 140 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We're there for children, every step of the way.

This role sits within our Sitting in our Storytelling knowledge group, you'll live our values every day. You will support colleagues to be brave and ambitious in raising our brand profile and building audience awareness through multichannel storytelling techniques.

We are currently looking for a passionate and enthusiastic designer. You cannot wait to grab hold of our bold, ambitious brand. You'll push and stretch to create inspiring, distinctive design across digital and print. You'll work with colleagues across the charity to deliver clear, consistent content that's challenging and arresting. You'll make sure your contribution reaches the right audiences, is driven by insight, attracts people and inspires action. And you'll help to promote a culture of learning and growth within our storytelling knowledge group and beyond.

You'll bring your skills and ideas to design work of your own, helping to stretch our brand. You'll also be supported by the Senior Designer and Lead creative to upskill people throughout the charity so that they can use our visual identity confidently. You'll help to develop training and toolkits and guides for colleagues. You'll ensure we're promoting inclusive representation across our brand and have opportunities to co-create with young people; ensuring our brand not only elevates youth voice but gives young people agency.

We work across domains, and knowledge groups. Our work is carried out in activity groups. As our Midweight Designer, you'll play a pivotal role in many of these groups. And all your great work will go towards making as big a difference to the lives of children and young people as we can. If that sounds exciting, we'd love to hear from you.

About you

You'll bring

-design and content creation for a wide range of communications - including advertising, marketing, brand, fundraising comms

-understanding of how to use audience insight to drive change and improvement

-experience and evidence of using design and visuals to complement and enhance communications messages

-broad digital knowledge and interest; including content design, content management, UX, accessibility and analytics

-a keen eye for detail and a willingness to learn new skills

-new ideas and a desire to explore your, and others', ideas with colleagues

-understanding of working in cross-functional groups aligned to a shared goal.

You'll

-ensure a strong, consistent visual identity that considers the needs of children and young people and brings our brand to life

-create designs for colleagues across the charity, providing direction on their approach to ensure consistency

-work with copy, video production, digital producers, and story and voice colleagues to explore concepts and develop standout creative that will work for the target audience

-develop, champion, and protect our brand's visual identity principles champion co-creation with children and young people, actively seeking out opportunities to go beyond contributions of stories

-build strong collaborative relationships across knowledge groups and expeditions to deliver effective creative campaigns.

Benefits

Flexible working hours: to be agreed with your manager.Family-friendly policies: Including enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave.Season ticket loan: Interest free loan for annual or quarterly season tickets for public transport to and from work.Cycle to work scheme: Save up to 39% on the cost of a new bike and spread the cost across the year.Pension: Stakeholder pension scheme with company-matched employee contributions of up to 8%.Death in service benefit: Four times annual salary for all employees.Discounted health scheme: Simplyhealth cash plan - 20% discounted rate on healthcare such as dental, optical and chiropody for yourself and your children.Free confidential counselling service: Available to all staff and volunteers'Xtras': Employee discount scheme offering a range of savings across groceries, fuel, clothing and holidays



The Children's Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children's lives happier and safer.

Every day we're changing the lives of children in this country for the better - and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our CYP Directorate will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 8th July.

Interviews will be held week commencing Monday 22nd July.

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