Brand and Design Officer Worcester, England
Job description
Sanctuary is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and community services. With around 13,000 employees, we maintain a culture where diversity is valued and talent is nurtured and rewarded.
Brand and Design Officer
Worcester or Glasgow based with a balance of home and office working
£30,396 - £31,995 per year
35 hours per week
We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and creative designer to join our Brand and Design team, which sits within the Communications department. The team works across a variety of Sanctuary brands to deliver a range of materials from brochures and signage to animations and website content.
We are looking for a talented designer to ensure consistency across our brand and work closely with our marketing and internal teams to deliver a creative design service.
The role of Brand and Design Officer will include:
- Creating and supervising the production of consistently high quality, creative and professional design solutions for a wide range of material for print and electronic distribution maintaining consistent and agreed corporate style
- Monitoring and coordinating the quality, style, design and production of material produced by other departments and subsidiaries to ensure that the brand guidelines are applied accurately across Sanctuary
- Liaising with designers, printers, and suppliers to ensure the delivery of high quality, cost-effective corporate literature and publicity material
- Supporting and advising customers on the most effective promotional material and cost-effective solutions for their audiences, including providing support through the production of printed material in order to offer an effective service
- Acting as a key point of contact for one or more Sanctuary brands, maintaining relationships with key business contacts, attending team meetings where requested and producing brand identity guidelines for both other designers and members of staff to follow
Skills and experiences:
- Proven experience in a Design Officer or Graphic Designer role with proof reading and copy editing experience
- Practical knowledge of a range of design software packages with advanced experience of using design packages
- Working knowledge of data protection, copyright law, regulations and legislation
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to deal confidently with people at all levels
- The ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to plan effectively and meet tight deadlines with a meticulous eye for detail
Why work for us?
One of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, Sanctuary employs more than 14,000 people and manages over 116,000 units of accommodation throughout England and Scotland, including general rented, retirement living, supported housing, student and key worker accommodation and care homes. Sanctuary also provides a range of other services including maintenance, care and telecare, all of which are delivered by our dedicated employees who are completely committed to customer service.
Our Benefits
As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:
- 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
- A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
- Life Assurance
- Employee Volunteering scheme
- Employee Advice Service including counselling
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Voluntary health plans
- Employee discounts
- Wellbeing support and tools
- Employee recognition scheme
- £30,396 per annum (rising to £31,995 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)
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Closing Date: 10 May 2023
We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.
‘For an insight into what it’s like to work for us, take a look at #LifeatSanctuary on Twitter’
Building Equality and Diversity
Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent unlawful working.
Sanctuary Group is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association, an exempt charity.
