Graphic Designer (Part-Time, 3 month fixed term contract with possibility for extension)

Responsible to: Head of Marketing & Communications
Hours: 15 hours per week across Weds-Fri. Some evening and weekend work required during festivals.
33 days annual leave, including bank holidays (pro rata)
Westfield Health cash plan
Cycle to Work Scheme

Back ground information

Cheltenham Festivals is a pioneering charitable organisation that creates world-class cultural experiences through its annual Jazz, Science, Music and Literature Festivals and year-round outreach programmes.

Our mission is to collaborate to create experiences which bring joy, spark curiosity, connect communities and inspire change, to progress our vision of a world in which everyone can explore and create culture. We are a catalyst for creativity, learning, and innovation - fostering talent, building community engagement, and championing access to culture.

The Role

Working closely with the Marketing team, the postholder will produce engaging and visually striking, print and digital content that aligns with Cheltenham Festivals’ brand identity and connects with diverse audiences. The postholder will be able to take an initial creative idea, concept or template and rollout the relevant assets to deadline.

Detailed Job Description

• To provide design support across Cheltenham Festivals:
• To deliver engaging design collateral including (but not limited to) brochures, leaflets,Festival signage, point of sale materials, presentations, press and digital assets.
• Work within brand guidelines, using existing templates and adhering to industry design and accessibility standards.
• Act as a brand guardian, ensuring all design work aligns with guidelines
• Be a strong team player, working closely with the Design Lead and Marketing & Design Executive to plan and collaborate on creative projects.
• Manage multiple projects, keeping to tight deadlines while keeping the marketing team informed of progress.
• To work closely with the Design Lead to ensure accurate executions of initial concepts
• Actively engage with the charity’s mission and vision

General responsibilities

In addition to the specific responsibilities all the Cheltenham Festivals team are expected to:

a. Diversity and Inclusion: ensure that our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) policies are followed and embrace the benefits of diversity so that everyone – irrespective of individual differences in their identities, background, or any personal characteristics – receives fair and equal treatment in a safe, welcoming, and enjoyable environment.
b. Performance Improvement: be responsible for your own performance, participate in our performance review procedures and propose better, faster, or less expensive ways to do things which help our overall mission.
c. Health and Safety: be responsible for ensuring the health and safety of the team and yourself by following safe systems of work, and by meeting the requirements of the health and safety policy.
d. Compliance and Integrity: be compliant with the law and the festivals’ policies especially with regards to data protection and IT security and ensure other policies as advised from time to time are followed.

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive and the nature of our work and the size of our team at Cheltenham Festivals requires everyone here to be flexible. You may be required to take on such reasonable additional or other responsibilities and tasks as we need from time to time.

Cheltenham Festivals embraces the benefits of diversity so that everyone, irrespective of individual differences in their identities, background or any personal characteristics, receives fair and equal treatment in a safe, welcoming and enjoyable environment.

Start Date: ASAP

Please contact us via the email address to the right of this advert if you have any questions about the role.

For a downloadable job description and application form please click on Apply Now.