Job Description

Are you an experienced and highly skilled designer, motivated to make a difference to the lives of seriously ill children? Do you want to work for one of the most-loved brands in the UK? Then this could be the role for you.

As our in-house Senior Designer, you will line-manage two Junior Designers and create inspiring work across digital and print. You'll lead creative on a wide variety of projects to support fundraising, engagement and brand activity for the charity and hospital.

Salary

The salary for this position is 37,585 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. This position is a 12 month fixed term contract.



In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.
Key Responsibilities


Delivering high quality, integrated creative work using a wide range of design and design thinking skills, including but not limited to; publications, print and digital marketing, concepting, illustration, animation, storyboarding, brand development, UI design, and large-scale display materials. Leading on allocated projects where creative can significantly influence revenue generation and brand profile. Interpreting creative briefs to best deliver project objectives using data and insight.. Assisting the Senior Design Manager to schedule and manage creative and brand projects. Consistently champion the brand while ensuring that creative work is aligned to the charity's strategy and brand objectives. Collaborating and consulting with external agencies to ensure that creative projects meet brand objectives. Managing two Junior Designers with an emphasis on coaching and developing skills and creativity. Organising and art directing photography of hospital staff, patients and families, requiring sensitivity and compliance with hospital and charity regulations. Helping to manage the charity/hospital image library and ensuring that any images used have the correct permissions and are used appropriately. Liaising with external suppliers including printers and photographers, as well as managing and overseeing freelance designers, acting as a guardian of the brand and overseeing completed work. Delivering print ready artwork and checking proofs. Helping to ensure agreed workflow processes are maintained within the team. Deputising for the Senior Design Manager. Skills, Knowledge and Expertise


Significant experience of creative design in the charity sector. Competency in Adobe Creative suite, including After Effects. Ability to generate compelling creative work within brand guidelines. Excellent attention to detail. Experience in brand art-direction. A passion for making a difference to the lives of seriously ill children across the UK. Benefits


30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) A flexible approach to working arrangements. Access to our enhanced pension scheme Life assurance Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.




About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity


Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too.

Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible. We were delighted to be named Charity Times - Charity of the Year 2024, recognising the impact of our shared mission.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status.

If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here https://www.gosh.org/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-strategy/


As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact recruitment@gosh.org

Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment.