Designer (9-Month Part-Time Contract)

We’re looking for a highly organised, audience-focused designer to bring Somerset House’s campaigns, programme and brand to life across multiple formats and touchpoints. 

Working within the Marketing team, this role is responsible for adapting and rolling out campaign creative across digital, social, onsite and print channels - ensuring assets are audience-led, platform-appropriate, visually compelling and consistent with Somerset House’s evolving brand identity.

The role will focus on translating existing brand systems and templates into high-performing, user-centric creative across a wide range of outputs, from paid social and organic assets to onsite interpretation, signage, posters, leaflets, presentations and digital marketing materials.

You will work closely with Marketing Managers and Social Media Team to deliver clear, engaging and effective creative that supports audience growth, campaign performance and visitor engagement.

What we are looking for

Creative Rollout & Adaptation

1. Adapt brand templates across a wide range of digital and print campaign formats.
2. Ensure all creative outputs are optimised for their intended audience, user behaviour and platform.
3. Produce creative assets for:
   • Paid social
   • Organic social media
   • Presentation and stakeholder materials
   • Leaflets and printed collateral
   • Offline media

Audience & User-Centred Design

1. Apply audience-first thinking to creative execution, ensuring designs are clear, accessible, engaging and easy to navigate.
2. Design with consideration for user journeys, readability, hierarchy, accessibility and platform best practice.
3. Translate complex or artistic subject matter into visually engaging and audience-friendly communications.
4. Support the creation of assets that improve awareness, consideration and engagement across Somerset House’s programme.

Content Management & Workflow

1. Maintain efficient workflows and project management across multiple concurrent campaigns, priorities and deadlines.
2. Ensure all assets meet technical specifications and delivery requirements across social, digital and paid media channels.
3. Prepare artwork and final files for both digital and print production.
4. Manage multiple asset versions, specifications and formats across channels.
5. Ensure creative is delivered accurately, efficiently and on schedule.

Collaboration

1. Work collaboratively with Marketing, Social Media, Visitor Experience and Press teams to deliver campaign requirements.
2. Respond to fast-moving campaign needs and multiple project timelines simultaneously.
3. Work with external partners, sponsors and agencies where required to adapt and implement co-branded assets.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

SKILLS

• Experience working in a fast-paced in-house or agency creative environment.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating digital, campaign and multi-platform design work.
• Excellent understanding of layout, typography, hierarchy and audience-focused communication.
• Experience adapting creative across multiple formats and channels.
• Strong knowledge of social media and digital platform specifications and best practices.
• Experience working with established brand systems and templates.
• Ability to balance creativity with clarity, usability and campaign effectiveness.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent attention to detail.

EXPERIENCE

• Strong understanding of platform algorithms, audience behaviours and social media best practice.
• Advanced Adobe Creative Suite skills, particularly:
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • After Effects (desirable)
• Experience preparing files for both digital and print production.
• Understanding of motion, animation or lightweight video adaptation is desirable.
• Understanding of accessible design principles across digital and print formats.
• Awareness of readability, hierarchy, navigation and user experience considerations in design.
• Ability to create creative that is inclusive and easy to engage with for broad audiences.

Benefits

Mental Health & Wellbeing

- Access to our external Employee Assistance Programme (CiC) for free 24/7 confidential advice and support, including up to 6 free counselling sessions per year where needed

- Mental health support and guidance from our in-house trained Mental Health First Aiders 

- Hybrid working based on having 3 days in the office per week (pro rata if part-time)*
- Contribution towards eye tests and glasses
-Trust life insurance scheme
- We offer winter flu vaccination vouchers

*dependent on the needs of the role

- Contribution towards eye tests and glasses

-Trust life insurance scheme

- We offer winter flu vaccination vouchers

*dependent on the needs of the role

Holiday

- Enhanced annual leave – 25 days plus bank holidays (pro rata)

- Birthday leave - additional day leave 

- Celebration day  - to celebrate anything of your choice

Other Leave

- Sick leave – 20 days full pay, followed by 20 days half pay (pro rata & following 3 months service)

- Emergency dependent care – option to use 25% of paid sick leave for emergency care of a dependent (pro rata & following 3 months of service)

- Enhanced maternity pay

Benefits

- 8% employer pension contributions, no employee contribution required**

- Option for salary sacrifice

- Season ticket loan

- Cycle to Work scheme

Discounts, offers and free stuff
-The list is endless and includes tickets to Somerset House events and entrance to other London Heritage sites

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-Discounts in Somerset House cafes and restaurants

-Discounts with various high street retailers and restaurants

-Discounts to local leisure centres

**following 3 months of employment

About Somerset House Trust

Somerset House hosts the UK’s largest and most exciting creative community right in the heart of London, and are always looking for new talent to join our team. We welcome 3 million annual visitors to share our unique combination of cultural events, the creative industries and history. This mix informs and powers our programme and organisational culture, making us a singular, compelling and inclusive place to visit and work.

Somerset House is actively anti-racist and you can read about our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging

Somerset House is actively anti-racist and you can read about our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging

here. We are working hard to ensure our people, our onsite community and our sector reflect, represent and include all of society.

Our Commitment to Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging:

Somerset House is open to all, and we value everyone's unique skills. Somerset House Trust is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to championing equality, diversity, and inclusion in our workplace.  We are committed to equal opportunity and encourage applications from all qualified individuals. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background. 

Where candidates are equally qualified, we will seek to prioritise diversity to help us increase representation across the creative economy and the Trust.

We anonymise all job applications to help avoid

We're committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process. Please let us know if there's anything we can do to help you perform at your best. We're open to adjusting our process to accommodate your needs please email people.team@somersethouse.org.uk.

The Trust reserves the right to close a job before its application deadline.

Please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK; the Trust cannot currently offer sponsorships.


In your application, we want to hear from you in your own voice about your skills, experience, and how you align with the job expectations and desire to work at Somerset House Trust. All applications are reviewed by members of our team.

discriminationin the initial screening stage of our recruitment process. This reinforces our commitment to focusing on the skills and qualifications of all applications from the start.

We're committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process. Please let us know if there's anything we can do to help you perform at your best. We're open to adjusting our process to accommodate your needs please email people.team@somersethouse.org.uk.

The Trust reserves the right to close a job before its application deadline.

Please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK; the Trust cannot currently offer sponsorships.

And finally.... the use of AI in your application

In your application, we want to hear from you in your own voice about your skills, experience, and how you align with the job expectations and desire to work at Somerset House Trust. All applications are reviewed by members of our team.

While we recognise that AI tools can be helpful for tasks such as research, structuring, or formatting, applications that rely heavily on AI‑generated content can sometimes lack the depth, authenticity, and the individuality we are looking for, and may not be progressed. We therefore encourage you to use any tools thoughtfully and to ensure your application clearly reflects your personal experience, perspective, and voice.

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