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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p><strong>FareShare</strong></p>
<p><strong>Job Description –Design Assistant</strong></p>
<p><strong>Reporting to:</strong> Graphic Designer</p>
<p><strong>Location:</strong> London/hybrid (average 3 days per week in Central London office)</p>
<p><strong>Contract:</strong> Permanent</p>
<p><strong>Hours:</strong> Full time 35 hours</p>
<p><strong>Salary:</strong> £25,000</p>
<p><strong>About FareShare</strong></p>
<p>FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 18 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 11,000 frontline charities and community groups. During 2021, we redistributed 132 million meals through our FareShare Regional Centres and our retail surplus model FareShare Go, reaching over 1 million people.</p>
<p>FareShare exists because of two hugely important and highly topical issues.</p>
<p>As a consequence of supply and demand, huge volumes of food are grown or made in the UK and a small percentage ends up as unwanted surplus with little commercial value.</p>
<p>At the same time, there are many thousands of frontline community groups and charities that are providing a vital safety net for the most vulnerable in our society. We seek to squeeze as much social good out of that uneconomic surplus by getting it to almost 10,000 such groups across the UK whilst they provide essential wraparound support services for their beneficiaries.</p>
<p>The Cost of Living Increase Crisis and before it, the COVID-19 have shone a spotlight on the issue of food insecurity in the UK and with it, FareShare’s ability to get food to vulnerable communities nationwide.</p>
<p>It is estimated that over 4.7m UK households are now experiencing food insecurity and whilst the equivalent of 1.3bn meals of good surplus food occurs each year, FareShare believes that it is wrong for these two situations to co-exist.</p>
<p>To combat this, FareShare is moving into an ambitious 4 year programme to achieve unparalleled growth in both our food volumes as well as our fundraised income. We are driven by the opportunity to secure even more of the food available at farm gate, manufacturing and retail levels and to do this, we need to maximise our new groundswell of public support to generate the funds needed to operate at this greater scale. There has never been a more exciting time to join a relevant organisation which delivers both social and environmental impact, at such a crucial time.</p>
<p>By joining us, you would be leading some of our most important work in helping us generate more support from Donors, Corporate Food and Fundraising Partners, Foundations and Volunteers, as we strive in our ambition to meet the demand for food to support the UK’s most vulnerable and evidence our impact.</p>
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<strong>FareShare’s Strategy & Vision</strong><br />
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<p><strong>Vision:</strong> We have the vision of a UK where “No good food goes to waste”.</p>
<p><strong>Mission: </strong>To use surplus, fit for consumption, food to feed those who are vulnerable in the UK by supporting front line charitable organisations that tackle the cause and not just the symptoms of food poverty.</p>
<p><strong>Our Purpose: We are doers. We are a community. We change lives.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Our Values: </strong>Passion – for our cause and the challenge that lies ahead</p>
<p><strong>Ambition</strong> – to go the extra mile and drive the change that must happen</p>
<p><strong>Respect</strong> – for ourselves, each other, our volunteers, our partners and our beneficiaries</p>
<p><strong>Collaboration</strong> – it’s only by working with others that we can be stronger</p>
<p><strong>Focus</strong> – on providing the best service possible so that we deliver and achieve the most for our clients/customers.</p>
<p><strong>The role</strong></p>
<p>Reporting to the in-house Graphic Designer, this role is to ensure that FareShare is producing high quality design work for a range of digital and printed media, including social media posts, leaflets and posters, merchandise, digital ads and printed ads.</p>
<p>The role is largely focused on ensuring that all design briefs received into the marketing team are delivered on time, are on brand and deliver the core message required.<br />
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This is achieved through working with the Graphic Designer to understand the brand guidelines and working as part of the wider Marketing and Comms team to know what briefs have come in to the team that have an element of design work, and to work with the Graphic Designer and external designer where resource requires that, to create and produce great creative work for FareShare.</p>
<p>Communication, time management, and collaboration are the backbone of the success of this role, and it will be helpful to maintain relationships both internally in FareShare UK and with our Network Partners.</p>
<p><strong>Main areas of responsibility</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Support all Design requests from within FareShare and external partners: take ownership of the design briefs allocated by the Graphic Designer, liaising with and providing regular updates and feedback on delivery timelines.</li>
<li>Social media post design is a daily task, support the marketing officers in the team with quick, attractive and compelling social media post designs.</li>
<li>Support the embedding of the new brand guidelines by delivering creative work in line with the new principles, making sure to update all materials and creating new ones that reflect the changes and communicating with other departments to highlight key rules to be followed before sign-off.</li>
<li>Support the communication with printers and suppliers who are producing materials for FareShare: take ownership of the production process with the printers and merchandise suppliers, liaising with them during the whole process, requesting quotes and being responsible for sharing the artwork and approving proof prints.</li>
<li>Support photography and videography projects by providing guidelines and attending shoots.</li>
<li>As an employer committed to Equal Opportunities, we will assess applications in line with these criteria that we consider either as being essential or desirable in this role.</li>
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<p><strong>Person Specification</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A trained or trainee designer with a creative qualification</li>
<li>A team player</li>
<li>A good communicator</li>
<li>Organised approach to traffic management</li>
<li>Confident enough to delegate escalate work when required</li>
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<p>As an employer committed to Equal Opportunities, we will assess applications in line with these criteria that we consider either as being essential or desirable in this role.</p>
<p><strong>Essential Criteria</strong></p>
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<li>Trained to use Adobe Acrobat Creative suite, Illustrator, In Design</li>
<li>Able to use Canva, and editing tools for photography and videography</li>
<li>Strong communication skills to keep others up-to-date on projects and work with other teams</li>
<li>Strong design skills and an eye for detail</li>
<li>Ability to take the initiative to identify and drive a design project</li>
<li>An appetite to continually learn and develop in the role</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Desirable Criteria</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The confidence to ask the right questions and sometimes challenge a brief to understand the heart of the request</li>
<li>Can use Microsoft Office software (PowerPoint, Word) as well as Adobe Creative software</li>
<li>Has experience of working with Workflow management systems such as Asana</li>
<li>Has some understanding of latest design trends for digital channels such as social media, email marketing, website and content marketing</li>
<li>Basic knowledge of the print production process</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Competencies and behaviours</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Enthusiastic and proactive approach to work</li>
<li>A passion for creativity and storytelling through design</li>
<li>Desire to deliver great creative work within a set of brand guidelines</li>
<li>Flexibility and ability to work well as part of a team and alone</li>
<li>A commitment to Equality and Diversity</li>
<li>Curiosity and empathy with FareShare’s mission and strategy</li>
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<p><strong>Benefits</strong></p>
<p>Salary £25,000 per annum</p>
<p>Location: (Hybrid) UK Wide</p>
<p>25 days’ annual leave + 8 bank holidays</p>
<p>Employers pension contribution</p>
<p>Employee Assistance Program</p>
<p>Interest free bicycle purchase loan scheme</p>
<p>Season ticket loan</p>
<p>Flexible working</p>