The role
Salary: £31,000 - £33,000 per annum, depending on experience
Hours: 35 hrs FTE although part-time working (a minimum of 3.5 days per week) may be considered
Place of work: Flexible/hybrid/remote, although you will be required to attend face-to-face meetings with your team or our partner agencies from time to time. There is also requirement to attend the office in Hatfield (or a London location) 4 times a year for our mandatory All Staff Together days.
You will work closely with internal teams and external partners to ensure that all creative outputs align with our brand identity and communication goals. Additionally, as the organisation undergoes a brand repositioning, the role involves collaborating with our brand agency to facilitate a seamless transition to the new brand identity. Beyond the transition, this role will champion the brand and lead by example in design execution, ensuring continued consistency and adherence to the refreshed brand identity across all creative outputs
About you
You’ll have proven experience as a Graphic Designer; working either in a similar role or in an in-house or agency setting. Your excellent understanding of brand identity, typography, and visual storytelling will come into play whilst creating accessible and inclusive content, and using your skills in Adobe Creative Suite to design for social media, email marketing campaigns, web platforms, paid advertising and printed media. You’ll be someone with a strong management skills, an ability to juggle multiple projects and work to tight deadlines. Experience working in charities, health organisations, or advocacy groups would be an advance, but not essential.
Please see our Recruitment Pack for details of our full Job Description and Person Specification.
Our Location
We are based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, so we are easily accessible by road and rail. In this role, there is plenty of scope for working from home, although there will be times when you will need to be at face-to-face meetings with your team or our partner agencies, or be required attend a few team away-days each year. In addition, the charity meets four times a year at its office in Hatfield (or a location in London) for our ‘All Staff Together’ days, at which attendance is mandatory.
Benefits
We offer competitive benefits that include:
- 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing one day per year up to 30 days
- Salary Sacrifice Pension scheme
- Flexible working options
- Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Wellbeing programme
- Interest free loan for season tickets
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking and secure bike locks
- Training and development financial support and/or study leave
- Performance review and development scheme
Job pack
Download Recruitment Pack
How to apply
Closing date: Tuesday 22 April 2025, 9am.
If you have any queries about this role, would like to have a conversation before formally applying, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact Claire Walsh, Director of Income Generation & Marketing on: claire.walsh@crohnsandcolitis.org.uk
Please submit a CV and supporting statement outlining why you’d like to apply, how you fulfil the person specification, and what you feel you will bring to the role, so you’ll need to refer to the Recruitment Pack found on our website.
Please email your CV & Supporting Statement to: jobs@crohnsandcolitis.org.uk
Interviews will take place on 29 & 30 April 2025 and will be held in our Hatfield office.
Please note: no applications will move forward within the recruiting process without a supporting statement.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities to all regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We are not a licensed sponsor at this time. Any offer of employment will be made subject to the applicant residing in the UK and a valid right to work in the UK being provided.
We will not be accepting any contact from Recruitment Agencies or Media Sales
