Job Description

Note: This is a UK Remote contract. International applicants are not being considered at this time

Role: Graphic Designer

Reporting to: Head of Marketing

Salary: 30-35K depending on experience

This is your chance to join an exciting charity working with parents and schools to improve the outcomes of all children. We have big plans for the future and are looking for high-performing team players that will have a direct impact on our ambitious growth. You’ll join a fun and friendly marketing team working hard to tell the stories of parent volunteers in education and school fundraising, as well as demonstrating the impact that parents have when involved in education.

Purpose of role

We’re looking for an experienced graphic designer that can help us develop and deliver a bold look and feel that does all the talking. You’ll be working across our audience spectrum including; our 12,000+ parent teacher association (PTA) membership base, those in a parenting role with children currently in the education system, and school leaders. You’ll work across a range of projects from helping us re-imagine our brand, designing our triannual PTA magazine and injecting your creative flair on digital and video content that supports major projects, such as National PTA Week.

Main responsibilities

• Champion the Parentkind rebrand, from inception to delivery you’ll be a key player in making sure we pop on and off-screen
• Develop and maintain our brand guidelines ensuring consistency across all materials and channels/platforms
• Design the look and feel of our website and future digital platforms, ensuring brand consistency and creativity are front and centre while also making room for best practice, , including leading on UX design, audience journeys and wireframes
• Lead the design of our triannual printed PTA magazine
• Design and produce a range of materials including but not limited to; digital fundraising packs, posters, brochures, social cards and videos
• Evolve and maintain additional visual identities associated with key projects and campaigns
• Work collaboratively across the charity to develop creative concepts for key campaigns, projects and activities
• Work collaboratively with the rest of the marketing team to ensure that content is designed and delivered to their specifications and within line with their annual content and delivery plans
• Aware of the latest design trends and technologies to ensure we’re forward thinking with our design approach

You’ll have

• 6 years minimum experience in graphic design
• A fresh, creative, and experimental approach
• Expert-level in the Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premier Pro are essential)
• Demonstrable experience in brand and website design
• Strong and relevant portfolio of work
• Experience in video editing and design
• Ability to take the lead, while still working collaboratively with other team members

You’ll get

• To join a fast-moving charity with an exciting future
• Remote working full-time with access to hot desking and a great online team culture
• 25 days holiday in addition to UK public holidays

As an inclusive employer, we actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures. We want Parentkind to reflect the community in which we operate and are committed to fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognised, appreciated, respected and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilise each person’s talents and strengths.

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

Who are we

Parentkind exists to: Empower all with parental or educational responsibility to improve the life chances of children, young people, and their communities.

As a national charity, Parentkind gives those with a parenting role a voice in education. We invest substantial resources in representing parent views on their child’s learning to local, regional and national governments and agencies because evidence tells parental participation in education benefits all children in all schools and society as a whole. Parentkind is the network of PTA fundraisers in the UK. We bring specialist fundraising support and advice to parent volunteers so that every school can benefit from a successful PTA. Our 12,500 PTA members raise over £120+ million per year, placing us alongside some of the largest charities in the UK.