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Assistant Designer

Employer
The Guinness Partnership
Location
London - Euston Road
Salary
£36,812
Closing date
2 Feb 2025
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Job Description

About the role
We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Designer to join our team in London on a full-time permanent basis. Hybrid working, you will spend three days based in our central London office and two days working remotely. The role is paying £32,812 per annum + £4,000 inner London supplement. 

In this newly created Assistant Designer role, you will report to the Senior Designer and support the delivery of a range of online and offline communications and materials, designed to a high standard, on time and ensuring they support the overall business objectives, in line with Guinness’s corporate brand guidelines.

You will work closely with the Communications team and the wider business to assist with the design of a broad range of materials including corporate documents, the resident magazine, newsletters, infographics, leaflets, factsheets, event collateral and associated assets. Commissioning photoshoots and updating and maintaining our image library are an essential part of this new role.

What we’re looking for
We are a customer-focussed organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. 

You will be an experienced designer/artworker with excellent creative skills. You will have a strong eye for detail and great organisational skills, be able to manage conflicting priorities and meet deadlines. You will also be able to demonstrate the below essential experience:

  • Good knowledge and experience of using Adobe Creative Suite, in particular InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat Pro and able to create digital content.
  • Experience of working within a communications environment delivering design material on time and to a high standard. 
  • Ability to work on own initiative and to be proactive and see projects through from start to finish. 
  • Ability to review activities/materials and question as appropriate.
  • Good typographical skills and can create infographics.

Desirable

  • Experience of supporting design of corporate documents, magazines/newsletters, online and event content.
  • An understanding of photography and art direction.
  • An awareness of how to create accessible PDFs.


Essential Qualifications

  • Educated to Level 2 (C+ or 9-4 GCSE or equivalent) or higher.

Desirable

  • Educated to Level 6 (Degree in Graphic Design or equivalent) or higher. 

If you are interested in finding out more about the key responsibilities of the role and/or to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the attached role profile. https://jobs.guinness.org.uk/rps/AssistantDesigner.pdf

 

How do I apply?
If you feel you have what we’re looking for then we’d love to hear from you! The first step is submitting your application online by uploading your CV, cover letter and PDF samples of your work (no more than 5MB in size) these will be reviewed as part of the recruitment & selection process. 

Interviews will take place on 18th or 19th February in person at our London office. 

About Us

The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 customers nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

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