Design Lead
YOUR MISSION
Where do you fit in?
We’re looking for a Design Lead to join our award-winning creative studio within the Marketing & Communications team. Your mission? To be our go-to authority on all design related matters, guarding and elevating CALM’s visual brand identity, ensuring a standout and consistent experience across every channel, platform, and product.
Responsibilities
- You’ll be responsible for driving the creative direction of content that smashes the silence around suicide.
- You’ll have a pro understanding of how our visual brand supports all areas of our strategy.
- You’ll obsess over typography, layout and art direction, setting the standard for Studio delivery, with acute attention to detail and the highest level of craft.
- You’ll have a keen eye for detail and a desire to push boundaries and create engaging, stand out comms that really speak to our audience, promote our vision and help those who are struggling.
Some responsibility headlines:
- Day to day, you'll work on a range of exciting (and life-saving) briefs from across the org from the Fundraising, Services, Operations and Data & Innovation teams.
- Have an overarching perspective of how CALM looks and feels across multiple platforms and products, stewarding the brand identity.
- Produce best in class content for a wide variety of marketing campaigns and owned channels.
- Juggle multiple projects simultaneously and balance different priorities effectively.
- Champion design best practices, partner with Head of Creative Operations to help optimize design aspects of studio briefing.
- Mentor and coach team of two other designers from a technical mastery point of view, empowering them to deliver top tier creative.
- Design and implement CALM Brand Guidelines onboarding for creative partners (freelancers and agencies) plus ongoing improvement and updating of our visual brand toolkit.
- Control and curate self-serve access to CALM’s brand assets, media libraries and archives, setting us up for growth.
Some of the things you’ll get:
- The opportunity to work in a creative and thriving team on lots of exciting projects.
- A nurturing environment to share your creative ideas - we always encourage everyone to get involved in projects, big and small.
- The chance to make a difference and help loads of people (cheesy but true).
Collaboration is a big part of the job too, so you must be able to communicate well with others – discussing ideas throughout the entire creative process. We use music, art, comedy and everything in between to get our message across - so keeping a finger on the pulse of current trends is key to making our voice heard.
YOUR PROFILE
What are we looking for?
- Graphic Design qualification or similar.
- 7+ years of working experience in creative, design production or agency (Don’t let this bullet point hold you back from applying if you meet all other requirements).
- Proven track record of leading and influencing a creative team.
- Boss at Adobe suite – especially Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, After Effects and Premiere Pro.
- Strong time management and project management skills - with experience using a project management platform (Monday.com, Trello or similar).
- Strategically minded - you start with asking "Why"/"What problem are we needing to solve".
- Commercially savvy - you get when to invest a lot of time and when done is better than perfect.
- A talent for creativity and problem-solving.
- Confident delivering artworks in print and digital formats.
- Practical knowledge of working within a CMS and accessibility best-practices.
- Experience designing digital products.
Desired but not essential:
- Experience using Figma.
- Video editing experience.
Why join CALM?
- Unlimited annual leave.
- Nine day fortnight where you will be paid for a full-time role, but every other Friday is a non-working day.
- 6% employer pension contribution.
- 20 days full sickness pay.
- Healthcare cash plan.
- Wellbeing and health support including 1:1 counselling sessions.
- Progression opportunities within the business where and when appropriate.
- Based: London Waterloo twice a week (Wednesdays and Thursdays) / Remote Working (Mon, Tues & Fri), 9.30am - 5.30pm.
- Reports to: Head of Creative Operations.
- Contract: Full time permanent.
- Location: London, SE1 8TG.
- Salary: £45,000 - £50,000.
ABOUT US
We're the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) - a suicide prevention charity fighting to reduce the devastating impact of suicide in the UK.
We run a life-saving helpline for anyone affected by suicide or suicidal thoughts, and our website has loads of tools and resources packed with practical advice.
We also run vital campaigns to increase awareness, smash stereotypes, and change the culture around mental health and suicide.
