Graphic Designer (Brand and Systems)

Salary £40,700 - £44,000Location Cromwell Road, London This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in 16 days at 23:59 GMT. The RoleGraphic Designer (Brand and Systems)V&A Design Studio(£40,770 – £44,000)We’re looking for a talented, passionate and practical Graphic Designer to join our team.What We’re Looking ForThe ideal person will be someone passionate about graphic design and committed to bringing our V&A brands to life across everything we do. You will work across a range of design projects, from creating visual identities to crafting brand systems. In addition to individual projects, we’re looking for someone who wants to contribute to how the brand shows up in an ongoing and evolving way and pushing the design workflow to stay up-to-date by ensuring design software, systems, creative and technical skills across the team new software or ways of working.The Ideal Candidate Will Have Proven ability to develop and translate projects from concept to final artwork across multiple outputs and formats, with strong typographic and layout skills Experience in artworking imagery and producing work for print and digital, ideally including environmental print, and understanding production processes. Experience working with brand identity and maintaining brand guidelines and graphic standards Have an excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (including fantastic typographic, image retouching and motion skills). Be organised with the ability to work with both speed and accuracy. Bring excellent communication skills to maintain good relationships with our range of internal clients and ensure communication between the design studio and print unit on planned works, timelines and completed artworks.The V&A Design Studios works to ensure everyone can explore, be energised by and see themselves in the V&A, because difference fuels creativity and the V&A belongs to us all.PortfolioRequiredTo submit your portfolio, please include a URL alongside your personal statement. Your portfolio should be readily available via any well-known file-sharing service/platform until the advertised start date. Please be advised that we cannot accept any links to individual/personal websites, as these are likely to be blocked by our IT security filter. Your portfolio should include a carefully selected range of relevant work that clearly demonstrates the skills required for the role, covering: Implementation, ownership and development of brands over time Working from concept to develop a range of campaign layoutsand assets Digital/motion. Brand transformation and overhaul, including implementation across a range of areasPlease ensure your portfolio is submitted as instructed. Applications without a portfolio, or with one submitted incorrectly, cannot be considered.While apps like ChatGPT can be useful for research, we ask that you answer our questions in your own words. This will help us to get to know you as an individual as well as your thoughts about the role.The V&AThe V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.Our Mission Is To Be Recognised As The World's Leading Museum Of Art, Design And Performance, And To Enrich People's Lives By Promoting Research, Knowledge And Enjoyment Of The Designed World To The Widest Possible Audience. We Strive To Make The V&A Matter To More People And In That Context We Work To The Following Six Strategic ObjectivesTo create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.The BenefitsBenefit 1Benefit 2Benefit 3Benefit 4Benefit 5Benefit 6BenefitsGenerous pension scheme29 days plus bank holidaysFlexible workingTickets to V&A exhibitionsSubsidised staff canteen25% discount in V&A shopsGive as you earn schemeBicycle loanInterest-free season ticketInterest-free rental deposit loanFree safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor BikeWide range of training and professional development opportunitiesEmployee Assistance ProgrammeStaff diversity networksED&I at The V&A At The V&A, We Are Committed To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion (EDI) For All And Strive To Go Above And Beyond Public Duty Placed Upon Us By The Equality Act 2010. As Such, We Are Delighted To Share That We Are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A Makes The Following Commitments To All ApplicationsThe Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities; Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job. Supporting employees and adjustments during employment. Job Descriptions are currently uploaded as PDF's, if for any reason you require the documents in Word Format, please email careers@vam.ac.uk with your request.DocumentsGraphicDesigner_BrandandSystems_Nov25.pdf - Download