Job Summary:
Company: DF Concerts and Events
Department: Marketing and Communications
Location: Glasgow, UK
Reports to: Head of Marketing & Communications
Working Hours: Full time plus additional event work as required, permanent
Role Description
The Junior Graphic Designer’s primary role is to support the Marketing & Communications team, effectively contributing to marketing campaigns and content creation, across all DF Concerts brands. This role will support the Graphic Designer to maintain and develop all aspects of graphic design for DF Concerts & Events, across a variety of digital, print, motion, etc. It is essential that you are creative with the ability to communicate your ideas effectively.
What it’s like to work in the Team
The Marketing and Communications team at DF Concerts is made up of a diverse group of individuals, all sharing a passion for what they do in their roles. We have a helpful, open, and approachable nature which helps to build relationships within the team and the wider company and allows for collaborative working. We all have a joint passion for selling out events and building the brands we work across to achieve our joint goals.
Who you are
Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience
- Experience working within a fast-paced design / marketing department and/or have studied Design and keen to progress in a career in design in live music.
- Experience in using Adobe Creative Cloud. In particular Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
- Understanding of the design process, from brief to final execution, and all the key delivery channels.
- Excellent organisational skills, the ability to work efficiently under pressure and multi-task to meet deadlines.
- Excellent attention to detail with a focus on quality and consistency.
- Proven ability in the creative process and ability to deliver projects on time.
- Experience of editing and producing video content for digital platforms.
- Demonstrable experience in following and executing under design brand guidelines. Ability to communicate and create branded work as brand guidelines would be a strong bonus.
- Experience of creating design artwork for social media and digital advertising.
- Understanding of current design trends and music industry marketing.
Behaviours
- You have a passion for music, taking great pride in playing your part in delivering first class, life affirming events to fans of all ages, backgrounds, and genres.
- You are discreet, maintaining confidentiality and professionalism always.
- You are by nature consistently conscientious, organised, analytical, supportive, and helpful.
- You are a natural collaborator, working cross functionally and at all levels, internally and externally.
- You think creatively.
- You are trusted, dynamic, pro-active, confident, self-directed, thrive when empowered and always a few steps ahead.
- Your communication skills are influential, strong, and effective.
- You are courteous and respectful and believe strongly in creating a healthy, equal, working environment.
- You have strength of character with a calm and diplomatic approach always mindful of the end goal.
- You have a flexible “can do” approach to working to ensure the job gets completed.
What the role includes
- Support the Graphic Designer with the creation of design assets for all DF brands
- Follow brand guidelines to produce artwork and assets for all brands
- Design and deliver exciting, engaging, and consistent content for all DF Concerts social media, website, and email to drive sales, engagement, brand awareness and support marketing campaigns.
- Artworking festival and event creative for both online and offline platforms
- Create and deliver all outdoor and stadium design requirements including parking passes, staff handbook, cartoon map, wristbands, etc.
- Edit/produce video content for all DF Concerts brands.
- Collaborate with other graphic designers and content creators on large scale projects and ensure all design materials are aligned and follow specified brand guidelines.
- In conjunction with Marketing team identify and develop new ways of marketing through new technologies and keep abreast of industry and competitor’s activity within design and marketing
- Undertake other activities in support of the marketing team as requested
Equal Opportunities
We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.
The Company
DF Concerts and Events is part of Live Nation Entertainment which is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, LN Media and Artist Nation Management. DF Concerts & Events bring the best live music and life affirming experiences to music fans across Scotland, year after year through a range of large outdoor festivals, stadium shows and indoor concerts. DF Concerts works with the biggest names in music as well as championing the career progression of emerging acts by operating, “quite possibly the finest small venue in the world”, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut – supporting the vibrant music scene from grassroots level, up. #DFC #LI-SL1
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APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday 17th April. We reserve the right to close applications at any time so encourage early application.