Join us at WWF-UK – Designer
Location:Living Planet Centre, Woking, Surrey
Contract: Permanent, fulltime (35 hours)
Hybrid working: Minimum 40% in person collaboration per month
Salary: £38,709 + excellent benefits
Safeguarding level:Level One
About the role
We’re excited to be recruiting a Designer to help bring WWF-UK’s brand to life across campaigns, communications and experiences.
Brand is the umbrella which unites our entire organisation. Our inhouse Brand and Design team is the beating heart of brand creativity, and most of our brand campaigns originate here. We also work with external agencies, and we lead internal teams. This ensures our brand message is central to everyone’s strategy, and that we’re aligned and impactful across all our audiences. You may have seen us across the London Underground and beyond, heard us on the radio and experienced us across the breadth of social channels – we're building our brand and our ambition is to be unmissable.
We champion creativity and good design thinking within the guidelines of our visual and verbal identity, leading brand & communications strategy, brand marketing, brand experience and creative design.
Working within our in-house Brand & Design team, you’ll create high-quality design work that strengthens our brand, supports major campaigns and helps WWF-UK show up consistently and powerfully across different audiences and channels.
You’ll work closely with the Head of Brand & Design, Senior Art Director and Brand Manager, as well as colleagues across WWF-UK, to develop design projects from initial idea through to final delivery.
This is a hands-on role covering a wide range of creative work, including campaigns, reports, documents, brand assets and guidelines. You’ll balance the needs of individual projects with the wider WWF-UK brand, making sure the work is visually strong, consistent and fit for purpose.
You’ll also play an important role in helping colleagues and external partners use the brand well. This will include responding to requests for brand assets and guidance, reviewing creative work, delivering brand inductions and supporting teams, freelancers and agencies to apply WWF-UK’s visual and verbal identity consistently.
Where additional creative support is needed, you’ll brief and work with freelance designers, illustrators, motion designers and agencies, providing clear direction and constructive feedback throughout the process.
Alongside day-to-day delivery, you’ll contribute to the ongoing development of WWF-UK’s brand and creative approach, exploring new ideas, tools and ways of working while protecting the quality and integrity of the brand.
We’re looking for someone with a strong creative eye, excellent technical design skills and a genuine instinct for what makes good design work. You’ll be comfortable managing your own projects, collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders and balancing creative ambition with detail, consistency and delivery.
Skills and experience
You’ll bring the following skills and experience to succeed in this role:
Essential
- Significant experience developing and delivering design-led projects from concept through to final execution
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator
- Strong understanding of artwork production for print and digital, including formats, print profiles, safe zones, bleed, resolution and aspect ratios
- Strong creative thinking and visual judgement, with a clear instinct for good design
- Experience managing your own design projects, timelines and priorities alongside hands-on creative delivery
- Confidence managing stakeholder feedback and balancing different needs while maintaining design quality and brand consistency
- Experience briefing and working with external creative suppliers, including freelancers or agencies
- Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to review work carefully and provide clear, constructive feedback
- Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across different teams and disciplines
- Confident written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- Working knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Adobe XD and Figma
- Experience working within a complex or matrix organisation
- Experience working in the charity or purpose-led sector
- An interest in using data or audience insight to inform creative decisions
- Awareness of AI-enabled design tools and how they can support creative processes while protecting originality, quality and brand integrity
What we offer
We believe in rewarding our team with more than just a salary. Here’s what you can expect:
- Annual leave starting at 26 days a year, rising one day each year to 31 days plus bank holidays
- Flexible working options, to support your work life balance
- 7.5% employer contribution to pension, rising to 10% with employee contribution
- Learning and development opportunities to help you grow
- Regular wellbeing initiatives to support your health and happiness.
This is a UK based contract, and you are required to have the Right to Work in the UK. Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer sponsorship and any offer of employment will be subject to evidence of your Right to Work in the UK.
This role is hybrid with a minimum 40% of your contracted hours spent at our beautiful UK head office, the Living Planet Centre in Woking, Surrey, where you’ll hot desk among trees and gardens.
About WWF-UK
We’re a global conservation charity with millions of supporters and hundreds of projects around the world.
At WWF-UK, we’re bringing our world back to life. Protecting what’s left isn’t enough. We’re racing to restore nature and prevent catastrophic climate change. And it’s a race we can win with everyone’s help.
We’re courageous, passionate, and driven by science. For more than 60 years we’ve been at the forefront of global efforts to protect wildlife and the natural world. We work with integrity, collaboration and deep respect for those we partner with.
How to apply
Click the link to apply via our website. You’ll be asked to complete an application form and upload your CV and a supporting statement that tells us why you’ll be a great addition to WWF-UK.
Our Diversity Promise to You
At the heart of our mission is a simple truth: the planet needs everyone. That means you - in all your uniqueness, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or how you choose to express yourself.
We don’t do stereotypes. We work together with purpose, driven by passion and enhanced by respect, courage, and integrity. We pull together from all walks of life to fight for a better future, and we want you to feel supported every step of the way.
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities.
So, if there’s anything we can do to make your application or interview experience more comfortable or accessible, just give our Talent Acquisition Team a shout at [email protected].
Safeguarding Commitment
Just as we celebrate diversity in all its forms, we are equally dedicated to creating a safe environment for every person we work with or encounter.
Our commitment extends to children, adults at risk, and individuals experiencing any form of vulnerability, whether temporary or permanent.
We proudly stand behind CAPSEAH (Common Approach to Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment) and put this commitment into action through clear policies, thorough training, and recruitment checks tailored to each role, which may include external vetting.
If you ever have a concern, however big or small, know that there are confidential channels ready to support you at WWF-UK. We promise to respond promptly and with care, because protecting every individual is at the heart of everything we do.
