Deadline – 4th November, 2024
LGBT Foundation is a vibrant charity with a wide portfolio of well-established services and
rapidly developing new initiatives aimed at supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people.
We are seeking a productive and imaginative Creative and Branding Coordinator to join our
communications team.
In this role, you will plan and produce high-quality content across multiple platforms, both
online and offline, to promote our projects and services. You’ll help tell the impactful stories of
our work and our partners, shaping content that leverages graphic design, video, written
materials, and digital media to amplify our mission and campaigns.
Working closely with the communications team, under the guidance of the Communications
Manager, you will create a diverse range of assets, including film, reports, audio, photography,
and marketing materials, all aligned with our strategic messaging to showcase our impact on
LGBTQ+ communities. The work you do will amplify our mission, vision, messages and
campaigns and engage LGBTQ+ communities.
In this role, you will also co-facilitate creative sessions with staff, volunteers, and occasionally
external stakeholders, fostering collaboration and generating new ideas for content creation.
Additionally, you coordinate projects such as photoshoots and filming with external creatives
and organisations as and when needed
As a brand steward, you will ensure that all communications are consistent with our brand
guidelines, tone of voice, and core values. Additionally, you’ll support the team by providing
training to empower staff to create their own short-form and in-house content.
We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other
racially minoritised communities, trans*, non-binary, and/or older people (aged 50+), to improve
the representation of colleagues from these communities in our staff team.
*Trans is an umbrella & inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs in
some way from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, crossdressers, and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.
Role Accountabilities
Creative Content – Production and Management
- Create online graphics and layouts for printed materials that convey key information about the organization, its work and our life-changing impact.
- Design documents, brochures, and infographics tailored for different audiences.
- Respond to design briefs from project and service leads.
- Shoot and edit short form high-quality videos in-house and occasionally on location.
- Organize and deliver photoshoots, ensuring diversity in our visual representation.
- Collaborate with the Communications Manager to execute the content strategy in line with organizational objectives.
- Write, edit and provide feedback on written content such as social media captions, marketing and sales content, web pages and blog posts.
- Manage and implement a feedback loop on all creative projects.
- Coordinate the creative process across the organisation to meet the content needs of events, services, and campaigns, aligning with the Communications and Campaign strategies.
- Coordinate the print production process across the whole organisation.
Brand Development
- Act as one of our brand ambassadors, ensuring all communications are consistent with our brand values and guidelines.
- Provide direction on brand usage across internal and external communication to a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to marketing projects by ensuring that visuals and messaging align with the organisation’s strategy.
- Monitor and report on the effectiveness of branding efforts using metrics, making datadriven adjustments where necessary.
Partnerships and Leadership
- Coordinate and plan a range of creative projects, campaigns and events with others across the organisation and external.
- Oversee the creative volunteer pool by recruiting, managing workloads, and ensuring quality outputs.
- Collaborate with freelance designers, creatives, and community members to produce high-quality content.
- Support co-production and creative sessions with staff, volunteers, and community members to foster innovative ideas and inclusivity.
LGBT Foundation Accountabilities
- Display a genuine commitment to equality of opportunity and an understanding of theissues faced by all LGBT communities. LGBT Foundation will challenge any discriminatorybehaviour or language if it occurs.
- Further, LGBT Foundation has a commitment to using the insight gained through its workto make the organisation more inclusive and representative of all LGBT communities.
- Completion of specific tasks allocated through work plans, project plans and the annualbusiness plan of LGBT Foundation.
- Provision of monthly information (accurate data and informative commentary) withinyour areas of responsibility for performance management purposes.
- Compliance with LGBT Foundation’s policies, procedures, management and monitoringsystems.
- We are a learning and development organisation and will consistently provide andsupport opportunities for staff to exceed theirs and our expectations. In common with all staff, you have a responsibility for drawing attention to your own training needs as well as those of colleagues that you work with that LGBT Foundation will then aim to support you with.
- Any other duties in line with your skills and abilities, as directed by your line manager.
- All staff are expected to maintain a flexible approach to their roles and respond to LGBT Foundation’s changing needs. The responsibilities of this post may be changed subject to review, over a period of time. This will be done in consultation with the post holder
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