Senior Graphic Designer

WEBRECRUIT; England; On-site; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A faith-based organisation in the UK seeks a Senior Graphic Designer to deliver impactful visual content for marketing and fundraising. The role involves leading design initiatives, mentoring peers, and ensuring brand consistency. Candidates should have robust multi-channel design experience, proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, and a degree in a related field. This full-time position offers a salary of £45,000 and opportunities for professional growth alongside a flexible hybrid working model.

Benefits

Non-contributory pension scheme

22 days annual leave plus public holidays

Flexible working policy

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Significant experience in multi-channel design, ideally in charity or values-driven sector.
• Proven leadership in creative campaigns from concept to delivery.
• Experience with design systems and brand governance.

Responsibilities

• Create exceptional visual design solutions to enhance brand awareness.
• Lead and mentor other designers in creative projects.
• Develop and maintain design systems and brand standards.

Skills

Multi-channel design experience

Creativity in Integrated Campaigns

Supplier management

Accessibility standards

Expert in Adobe Creative Cloud

Familiarity with AI creative tools

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in Graphic Design or related field

Tools

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Figma

Job description

Senior Graphic Designer

Our client is seeking a talented Senior Graphic Designer to deliver a brilliant array of visual content that supports marketing and fundraising activity.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a high-calibre graphic designer to take their career to the next level and use their extensive talents to build narrative and tell our client’s amazing story.

Location

Kent or Oxford (with hybrid working)

Rewards

Salary of £45,000, plus a generous pension scheme, annual leave entitlement, and other great benefits and professional growth opportunities.

Contract

Permanent, full-time

The Role

As a Senior Graphic Designer, you will create, and lead others in the creation of exceptional visual design solutions that make our client’s brand stand out, display their vision and engage with their audiences.

Right now is an incredible time to join our client as they start a new chapter of ambition and growth. They’re integrating what they do, bringing together services, people and systems to make sure they are operating in a unified way. You’ll be a key part of this process, working closely with the fundraising and marketing teams to elevate their visual offering, develop creative designs that meet needs and drive awareness, and mentor and up-skill colleagues.

Day-to-day, you’ll create high-impact designs and visual work for both print and digital formats, pushing the brand forwards and supporting campaigns that increase donor income, brand awareness and reach. Leading campaign and content design, you’ll deliver concept development and lead art direction, define and document design systems and brand standards and adopt and integrate new tools that will streamline and enhance our client’s work.

Additional Responsibilities

• Facilitate creative workshops
• Champion accessibility and inclusion in design
• Act as brand guardian for consistency across UI/UX and traditional graphic design
• Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted workflows and develop guidelines for use
• Scope, brief, and quality-assure external suppliers
• Mentor designers and content creators
• Define and track creative campaign goals

About You

To join our client as a Senior Graphic Designer, you will need:

• Significant professional experience in a multi-channel design role covering both print and digital, ideally within the charity or values-driven sector
• Proven track record leading creative for integrated campaigns, from concept to delivery, working closely with fundraising and marketing teams
• Experience establishing and maintaining design systems and brand governance across a growing organisation
• Supplier management and quality assurance experience across print and digital production and confidence with specifications and proofs
• Experience leading in accessibility standards and inclusive design principles to improve reach and impact
• Experience working with an agile framework and familiarity with scrum and sprint methodologies
• Expert user of Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects/Premiere) and familiarity with Figma or similar for components and libraries
• Familiarity with AI-assisted creative tools (e.g., Adobe Firefly, Microsoft Co‑Pilot) and their appropriate, ethical use
• Degree‑level qualification (or equivalent experience) in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Interaction Design or related field

The Organisation

Our client is a faith‑based organisation that delivers practical support and religious awareness across the globe.

The Benefits

• Salary of £45,000 per annum
• Annual leave entitlement of 22 days per year plus 8 paid public holidays per year
• Non‑contributory pension scheme (10% of salary); employees may make voluntary additional contributions
• Death in service payment
• Flexible working policy
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme

This is a rare opportunity to have real impact every day, deliver exciting visual campaigns that will support and drive our client’s mission.

You’ll be the key component of their marketing and fundraising work, playing a lead role, setting the tone and driving the delivery whilst growing and developing your own skills and implementing exciting new tech and processes.

What's more, you'll discover a wide range of reward schemes and benefits alongside the chance to help make a difference to communities around the world that are in need.

Other organisations may call this role Lead Graphic Designer, Visual Communications Manager, Marketing Designer, Brand Visual Lead, or Visual Campaign Designer.

So, if you’re ready to create incredible visuals as a Senior Graphic Designer, please apply via the button shown.