Creative Design And Brand Lead

Creative Design and Brand Lead

London and Essex

Fixed term 12 month contract

Are you a talented graphic designer interested in crafting effective visual communications and preserving a consistent brand identity? Can you combine creativity with strategic thinking while delivering high-quality design across a wide range of platforms? Are you an experienced hands‑on designer who thrives in a changing environment and enjoys collaborating with diverse stakeholders?

If this sounds like you, this could be the next step in your career.

Please note: Applicants should include either a portfolio website or PDF portfolio showcasing a diverse range of graphic design projects demonstrating branding, campaigns, presentations, print, digital and conceptual creative work.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow

As our new Creative Design and Brand Lead, you will play a key role in the development and production of visual communication, protecting and developing our brand, and ensuring design excellence across the programme. You will work closely with internal teams, senior leaders, delivery partners, and external stakeholders to deliver creative solutions that communicate our purpose and support business objectives.

Furthermore you will:

• Act as the brand guardian, ensuring consistent application of brand guidelines across all materials and supporting training, workshops, audits and quality assurance.
• Create bespoke illustrations, iconography, infographics and visual assets.
• Mentor and support the Junior Creative & Brand Designer through coaching, feedback and development.
• Manage the end‑to‑end graphic design request process and internal stakeholder relationships.
• Create and maintain branded templates for presentations, reports, technical documents, brochures, forms, event and marketing materials.
• Maintain the design intranet page, ensuring staff have access to templates, assets, merchandise and guidance.
• Oversee the implementation and administration of Templafy to support consistent brand standards.
• Produce high‑quality presentations and documents for senior leadership and key programme activities.
• Design engaging social media content, including motion graphics, GIFs and short animations.
• Support internal communications, engagement initiatives and events with creative design.
• Stay current with design trends to continuously improve creative output and brand impact.
• Provide ad‑hoc creative support for External Affairs, including ministerial and cross‑government events.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• 5‑10 years' professional experience in graphic design, including experience supporting bids or corporate communications.
• Demonstrable experience working within and enforcing brand guidelines across large or complex organisations.
• Expert proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), with working knowledge of Figma and strong capabilities in After Effects and Premiere Pro.
• Strong illustration, iconography and visual storytelling skills, with the ability to create bespoke creative assets that enhance audience engagement.
• Experience delivering a broad range of creative outputs including campaigns, presentations, brand assets, social content, print collateral, illustration and motion design.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word, with experience creating sophisticated presentation and document templates.
• Solid understanding of typography, layout, branding and visual storytelling.
• Experience implementing branded templates and design processes that improve consistency and efficiency.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously while consistently delivering high‑quality work to tight deadlines.
• Experience mentoring or managing junior designers, providing constructive feedback and supporting professional growth.
• Solid stakeholder management skills with the confidence to advise, coach and support colleagues at all levels.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to explain design rationale and translate complex ideas into compelling visual solutions.