Chelsea Football Club
Junior Designer - Sponsorship
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Junior Designer, Sponsorship
Department
Sponsorship
Location
London
Contract
Permanent, Full Time
Job Function
This role will be responsible for supporting the preparation of sales presentations to drive new business commercial revenue or for the retention of existing revenue. The primary activities will consist of supporting the design team on image collation and artworking.
Closing Date
15th October
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. In the event that we receive a large number of applications, the position may be filled before the listed closing date. To avoid missing out, please submit your application at your earliest convenience.
Main Responsibilities
- Producing branded presentation materials for high-stakes partnership proposals.
- Leveraging design skills in PowerPoint and Adobe Creative Suite to create visually compelling pitch materials and presentations.
- Produce digital and printed artwork that intertwines both the Chelsea FC and prospects core brand values.
- Assisting the design team with creation of partner assets for tv interview backdrop boards, stadium LED signage, big-screen advertising and digital communications.
- Researching brands and companies brand guidelines on how they display their brand logos and accurate replication onto any tailored Chelsea FC presentations.
- Working with the Men’s and Women’s Commercial teams, understanding business requirements and creative brief to deliver pitch materials in line with business objectives.
- Maintain the image bank for commercial purposes, ensuring this remains up-to-date, proactively sourcing and cataloguing images from other department stakeholders and club photography/image portals after matchdays.
- Methodical filing of created materials and maintaining version control.
- Understanding and application of latest Chelsea FC brand guidelines to design materials.
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Measures of Performance
- Ensure that all sponsorship collateral/online messages are consistent with brand and corporate standards, speaks the Chelsea FC ‘language’ and upholds brand values.
- Consistently meet deadlines and ability to flag capacity planning issues.
- Ability to balance quality of work against production and volume deadlines.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential:
- Proven agency or in-house design experience.
- Proficient across a presentation software and have experience of using this in prior roles as a main design platform.
Desirable:
- Proven experience as a designer within the sports industry.
Skills and Behaviours:
Essential:
- Passionate to work for one of the world's biggest football clubs and come eager to improve your design understanding and technique.
- Proficient skills with Adobe Creative Suite; specifically; InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.
- Excellent time management skills and willingness to be flexible with working hours, subject to key deadlines.
- Highly organised and adaptable, able to work to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Attention to detail.
- Good relationship, communication and interpersonal skills.
Desirable:
- In depth knowledge of high-end retouching and photo editing.
- Experience in Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Our Expectations:
- To embody the club’s BLUE behaviours (Brave, Lead, Unity, Edge) in the approach to work and interaction with others.
- To adhere to the club’s policies and procedures, including Health & Safety, Financial Authorisation, Confidentiality and GDPR.
- To act as an ambassador for diversity, equality, and inclusion, and demonstrate a positive commitment by treating others fairly in line with our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policy and reporting any acts of discrimination through appropriate channels.
- To create a safe environment and act to protect all young people and vulnerable adults that are either in your care or attending club premises, and report any concerns to the Safeguarding Lead.
- To report any misconduct or suspected misconduct to the HR Department.
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Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
At Chelsea we recognise that the diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths and we are taking positive action to ensure our existing colleagues and job applicants can fully be themselves and bring their own unique experiences and perspectives to Chelsea FC. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
If you need reasonable adjustments made to the recruitment process, please reach out to your recruiter, who will be able to advise and support you.
Chelsea FC is fully committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults at risk (vulnerable groups). We therefore require all successful applicants to complete a DBS Check prior to starting employment. Depending on the role, successful applicants may also be required to undergo other child protection screening where appropriate.
This Job Description is not intended to be exhaustive; the duties and responsibilities may therefore vary over time according to the changing needs of the Club.
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