Job Description
About The Role
Watford Football Club is looking to recruit a Graphic Designer, to provide a key resource within a team of Graphic Designers who work closely with all other departments across the club, to provide a range of design resources for both internal & external communications.
The design team falls within an organisational structure which includes colleagues who are responsible for communications, events, membership services and ticketing. This team dovetails with the marketing team to drive supporter engagement across all digital communications platforms.
The purpose of the job is to work to tight and occasionally seemingly unfeasible deadlines in an exciting, fast-paced, relentless, and volatile environment – while all the time keeping a positive mindset and a sense of fun and enjoyment in a role which gives the chance to interact right across the business.
Key duties will include but are not limited:
- To create and deliver design/artwork both still and animated, that communicates Watford FC to best effect to a wide range of audiences - including fans, the wider local community, business clients, external media, and other audiences as necessary.
- To liaise with all departments to understand their requirements and ideas and provide design solutions.
- To manage the overall design process - from initial ideas and concepts to completion of final product, ensuring designs are completed within set timescales.
- To build and maintain a relationship with printers, ensuring the best quality and price.
- To help in the managing and updating of the Watford FC brand guidelines, ensuring any artwork designed adheres to them.
- To research the latest design trends and fashions to enable Watford FC material to be at the cutting-edge of the football industry in its look & feel.
The successful candidate will enjoy working as part of a team, be enthusiastic, hardworking, and be flexible to the requirements of the position and the business.
Applicants should ideally live local to Watford/London Colney or the surrounding areas and be a UK resident or non-UK resident with a valid UK work permit.
As a regulated activity provider and as part of the short-listing process we may:
- Complete reference requests prior to interview.
- Carry out an online search for publicly available information as part of the due diligence process.
- If your application is successful be required to obtain a DBS disclosure at the appropriate level (role dependant)
About The Candidate
Essentials:
- Experience / internship experience within graphic design
- Experience in using Adobe Creative Suite software; Photoshop, After Effects, InDesign, and Illustrator
- Experience in using other basic computer software such as Microsoft Office suite
- Have excellent organisational and time management skills
- Ability to multi-task in a fast pace ever changing environment
- Ability to anticipate and prioritise workload
- Full UK driving licence or ability to travel to various locations due to the demands of the role
- Understanding of the Clubs commitment to EDI & Safeguarding
Desirable:
- Experience of working within a similar role
- Photography; typically, human portrait and still image work
- An understanding of the print process, from screen to page
