V&A Museum of Childhood
Junior Graphic Designer
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Salary £28,250 - £32,952 per annum, pro rata
Location: Cromwell Road, London
This is a Permanent, Part Time vacancy that will close in 19 days at 23:59 BST.
The Role
We’re looking for a talented, passionate and proactive Junior Graphic Designer to join our team.
Our design studio has a portfolio of exciting projects including blockbuster exhibitions, temporary and permanent gallery displays. The studio is fast-paced, collaborative and hands-on, designing distinctive and meaningful experiences for the public.
It is an exciting time to join the V&A as we expand our family of venues with the opening of Young V&A in Bethnal Green (2023); V&A East Storehouse (2025) and V&A East Museum (2026) in Stratford.
What We’re Looking For
The ideal person will be someone who can balance a range of projects and proactively collaborate with design colleagues in the design team, and wider teams – including marketing, curatorial, digital, retail, product and publishing – to encourage design coherence across multiple touchpoints.
You will design and deliver imaginative, inclusive and effective graphic and motion design for marketing campaigns, temporary exhibitions, permanent galleries, museum spaces, signage, wayfinding, print materials, and a range of other graphic and print assets, all adhering to our design and brand standards.
We’re looking for someone who wants to contribute to the ongoing development of our studio and keeps on top of developments in graphic and motion design, and identifies their relevance to the V&A. You have a passion for accessibility, sustainable design solutions, and will support the success of the Museum’s public programme, activities and goals across all V&A venues.
Please note, when submitting your application you must include a URL to your portfolio in the supporting statement section of your application. Your portfolio should showcase a selected range of relevant work and demonstrate the skills required in the role.
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The V&A
The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.
Our Mission
Is To Be Recognised As The World's Leading Museum Of Art, Design And Performance, And To Enrich People's Lives By Promoting Research, Knowledge And Enjoyment Of The Designed World To The Widest Possible Audience. We Strive To Make The V&A Matter To More People And In That Context We Work To The Following Six Strategic Objectives
- To create a world class visitor and learning experience across all V&A sites and collections.
- Focus and deepen the relevance of our collections to the UK creative and knowledge economy.
- Expand the V&A's international reach, reputation and impact.
- To operate with financial and organisational initiative and efficiency.
- Showcase the best of digital design and deliver an outstanding digital experience.
- Diversify and increase private and commercial funding sources.
The Benefits
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- Generous pension scheme
- 29 days plus bank holidays
- Flexible working
- Tickets to V&A exhibitions
- Subsidised staff canteen
- 25% discount in V&A shops
- Give as you earn scheme
- Bicycle loan
- Interest-free season ticket
- Interest-free rental deposit loan
- Free safety checks and small repairs to your bike with Doctor Bike
- Wide range of training and professional development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Staff diversity networks
ED&I at The V&A
At The V&A, We Are Committed To Equality, Diversity And Inclusion (EDI) For All And Strive To Go Above And Beyond Public Duty Placed Upon Us By The Equality Act 2010. As Such, We Are Delighted To Share That We Are a Disability Confident Employer Level 2. The V&A Makes The Following Commitments To All Applications
- The Disability Confident Employer scheme offers guaranteed interviews – Interviewing applicants with a disability who successfully evidence the essential criteria on a person specification and consider them on their abilities;
- Providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
- Making reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process so disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job.
- Supporting employees and adjustments during employment.
In some circumstances, such as when we receive a high volume of applications that meet the minimum criteria, we may not be able to guarantee an interview under the scheme. In these cases, we will interview only the highest-scoring applicants, from both people with disabilities and people without a disability.
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