Graphic Designer

Job Purpose:

Reporting to the Creative Director, this role will focus on helping to tell the story of The Royal Foundation (TRF) through the creation of engaging and compelling content and assets.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of Engagement, Events team, and Social and Digital colleagues, and will engage with colleagues at Kensington Palace to help achieve our overall ambition of generating positive impact and sustainable change to help deliver Their Royal Highnesses vision of a healthy society and planet.

Role description and core responsibilities

The designer will be the lead point of contact when content and assets are required for internal and external products. Projects will range in scope from static social media posts, to the creation of key documents, or providing support for high-profile events. As a new role, the successful candidate will help to build out the scope of this position and ensure it complements the work of colleagues.

Brand, Art Direction and creative

• Understanding of the TRF brand and sub-brands/programmes, and able to consistently bring this to life when generating assets and content, supporting overall objectives for the organisation

• Day-to-day responsibility for the application of the TRF visual brands, and ensuring they are appropriately used internally and externally.

• Guardian of Brandpad, updating and refreshing the master brand, and programme brands, working with existing brand guidelines, and supplying teams with required assets.

• Confidently able to take ideas and develop these into briefs to commission when skillset sits outside of TRF.

• Support colleagues when considering the creation of new sub-brands, and how these will fit into the overall brand hierarchy

Content

• Able to take an idea and develop a creative concept, supporting the overall objectives and goals of the programme.

• Responsible for the creation of assets and content including:

• Quickly and confidently designing flawless PowerPoint presentations that accurately represent the brands

• Able to design assets for external events including (invites, step and repeats, brand builds)

• Able to design and own the templates for a range of newsletters to be published externally

• Create toolkits to be shared externally to support key external moments

Stakeholder engagement

• Develop strong-working relationships across the Foundation, to understand overall objectives of individual programmes, and intricately understand each associated brand.

• Act as the point person with TRF brand agency

• Develop a strong relationship with the social and digital team at Kensington Palace, sharing ideas and working together, to consider opportunities to share content, and ensure designs allow for this.

• Nurture brilliant relationships with a range of collaborators externally, so we can bring in support when required.

Technical Skills:

• Extremely confident with PowerPoint and design tools to create perfect presentations

• Able to design visual assets using appropriate tools and relevant programmes

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of how best to work across social and digital channels and platforms

• Confident working with design tools and programmes including inDesign, Photoshop, Brandpad, Premiere, Mailchimp etc etc

Relevant knowledge, experience and personal qualities

Knowledge & experience:

• A brilliant portfolio showcasing an ability to take ideas and create content, across social and digital channels, presentations and for events.

• Demonstrate experience of the application of brand guidelines to creative work, and ability to act as a brand guardian within an organisation.

• Confident and comfortable using design tools and platforms

• Strong evidence of art design, and/or design concepts and visual principles

• Familiar working with multiple brands and how to balance priorities

• Experience working within a high-profile organisation

• Knowledge of how to flex products depending on audience.

Personal qualities:

• Enthusiastic mindset, constantly generating ideas and thrives in a fast-moving environment, with a can-do attitude

• Excellent ability to communicate visually and effectively in order to influence or change mindsets

• Ability to create content and designs for different audience (internal and external).

• Excellent interpersonal skills, delivers and tailors communications to diverse audiences and teams and ensures a shared clarity of purpose is in place.

• An eye for detail, and commitment to exceptionally high standards across all written and electronic communications and visual identity

• A commitment to continuous improvement and strive to deliver the best possible outcomes

• Awareness of reputational risk, and ensuring ideas/assets/presentations are appropriate for audiences

• Passionate about a healthier, happier society, with the ability to work within the non-political constraints of The Royal Foundation.

• Understands the importance of discretion and confidentiality and have a mature and professional approach.

Our Company & Culture:

The Royal Foundation is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and to ensuring a positive, safe, and respectful environment which promotes the wellbeing and dignity of our employees, partners, suppliers, and those whose interests we represent. We are committed to promoting a positive and inclusive working environment that has a diversity of people and views, and one that supports our culture of collaboration and curiosity. These principles underpin our professional behaviour and are embedded in our policies, procedures, day-to-day practices, and external relationships. We therefore welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

If you have the relevant skills and enthusiasm for the role, then we want to hear from you.

Please send your CV and a one-page covering letter explaining your motivation for applying and how you meet the skills and experience required for the role by clicking Apply now.

• Salary: Circa £35,000 pa.
• Location: Central London office three days a week, with flexibility to work remotely the remaining two days
• Contract type: 12 months fixed term
• Holiday: 25 days per annum
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
• Benefits: Pension scheme (non-contributory), private medical insurance, life insurance, season ticket loan