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King' College London Students' Union (KCLSU) is one of the biggest and oldest Students' Unions and is responsible for students at King's College London, a Russell group and world-renowned University. We are a registered charity and a member-led organisation. The students' union operates across four London Campuses including Strand, Guys London Bridge, Waterloo, and Denmark Hill. We have a vast student membership to communicate with, and a range of services we provide including community engagement, advice and support, and commercial operations. Our commercial services are accessed by students, staff, alumni, and the public. These spaces include a shop, two cafés, a food hut, and two bars with food service.
This role will strongly contribute to developing KCLSU's brand across design, and ensuring strong awareness of KCLSU. We want students to be aware of the variety of services we have on offer, whilst ensuring students from a range of backgrounds engage with these services.
Our core brand will be up to date across each of our sites, our digital spaces, and our documentation.
Good relationships will be formed with colleagues across the organisation, to effectively work with our different areas. Our staff will become familiar with the KCLSU brand and feel empowered to utilise it.
Your imaginative thinking and creativity skills will be apparent through the work that has been done and we'll see a noticeable difference in students awareness of KCLSU, and their impression of our brand.
There may also be times when working on the brand development for projects where you'll need to work with students, so patience, listening, and again good communication is necessary. Your role helps us to collaborate with students.
At the time of recruiting we are currently doing brand research into one of our commercial venues to infom us how we shall rebrand in the summer months of 2024. Success in this role would see the project through.
Candidate Specification
- Able to communicate confidently and diplomatically with staff at different levels in the organisation and form successful and productive working relationships
- Able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team and the wider organisation
- Considers how others they work with think, including students and key stakeholders
- Works transparently, sharing information, seeking feedback and taking on board others' views and encourages other to think differently
- Takes responsibility for all outcomes regardless of the outcome or success, learning for the future
- Good verbal, writing, editing and proofreading skills
- Visionary, creative, and innovative.
- Empowering, authentic leader with high levels of emotional intelligence
- A positive, solutions focused worker – able to give advice to inform difficult decisions; determined and resilient in order to cope with the demands of the role
- Qualifications or relevant job experience of brand design, graphic design and experience of implementation
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, in particular InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator (CS6).
- Previous experience of working in a creative design role
- Experience of working across print, branding and digital (video, motion graphics)
- A sound knowledge of design principles
- Awareness of the Disability Discrimination Act and accessibility standards
- Accuracy and attention to detail
Application Process
If this is you, please visit our website, download and complete an application form alongside an equal opportunities monitoring form and email them directly to us alongside a copy of your portfolio.
Our values
You will see on our Job Pack that we are a equal opportunities employer and we live by our 4 main values: Inclusive, Collaborative, Open and Brave. KCLSU is a fun, social and flexible work environment which offers opportunities for development as well as great staff benefits.
Benefits of Working for KCLSU include:
- Hybrid Working Policy
- Pension Contribution
- Interest Free Season Ticket Loan & Computer Loan
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Enhanced Sick Pay
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay
- Eye Tests & single focal glasses allowance
- 41 days annual holidays including bank holidays and university closure days
- Discounts at KCLSU venues
- £30 wellbeing allowance per term
- Employee Assistance Programme
- "No meeting Friday" ethos
- Death in Service
At KCLSU Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are at the heart of everything we do and we endeavor to ensure equal treatment of all candidates. We welcome a diverse range of applicants and are open to discussing flexibility with the right candidate. Reasonable adjustments will be made for candidates with disabilities at all stages of the recruitment and selection process, and to ensure that a successful candidate with a disability can undertake the post.
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply for this role you must:
Be eligible to work in the UK, and provide proof of this (i.e. a passport/visa) when asked by KCLSU
Have a National Insurance number, or be in the process of applying for one
Not be a trustee of King’s College London Students’ Union
