Graphic Designer – 9 Months FTC

Department/Team: Marketing and Commercial Responsible to: Senior Digital & Social Content Designer Contract: Fixed Term Contract – 9 months Location: Location: The Old Vic, 103 The Cut, London, SE1 8NB Hours: Part-Time – 24 hours per week, On site – Monday, Wednesday and Thursday Salary: Salary: £21,000 per annum (£35,000 FTE)

Purpose of Job

Overseen by the Senior Digital & Content Designer, the Graphic Designer supports the in-house graphic design output of The Old Vic. They are a key member of the Marketing & Commercial team, collaborating with the team to ensure timely and creative design solutions for all production marketing campaigns, as well as supporting the design needs of departments across the organisation and ensuring accurate brand communication at all times.

Areas of responsibility

• To work within existing templates to design and roll out typography-led print-ready and digital artwork for marketing campaigns, merchandise and any other Old Vic related campaigns.
• Creating new templates to support the design and roll out of campaign artwork featuring typography and/or production imagery
• To work with supplied artwork from external agencies or freelance graphic designers to roll out across marketing campaigns
• To work closely with the Senior Digital & Content Designer to ensure efficient and high quality departmental output
• To work directly with external design agencies, freelance graphic designers and suppliers as instructed by the Senior Digital & Content Designer
• To liaise with all internal departments to meet their design requirements as and when needed, manage the process and agree deadlines
• To support the Marketing & Commercial team in ensuring The Old Vic brand and sub brands are used consistently and are in keeping with our brand guidelines at all times
• To ensure all work is archived and backed up
• To manage files on the server and keep to an agreed naming protocol.

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and the theatre’s management may, at any time, allocate other tasks which are of a similar nature or level.

Person Specification

Essential

• Junior/midweight level experience.
• Proficient in InDesign and Photoshop
• Experience of Illustrator and AfterEffects
• Experience of using Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries
• Proven ability of working with typography and typography-led brands
• Proven ability of working within existing templates to ensure precise brand representation
• Proven ability of taking a project from brief through to delivery of the final artwork and print process
• Experience working in creative communications or marketing
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Have a keen eye for detail and good communication skills
• Ability to work on multiple briefs at the same time and manage time effectively across these
• Experience working within the Arts sector.

The Old Vic

Specific location

Salaried

22/07/2024

Fixed Term, Part Time