Creative Coordinator, Ubele Initiative

Creative Coordinator, The Ubele Initiative

Reports to: Communications Lead

Pay: £37,000 - £40,000 full time, gross per annum

Type of

Contract:

One-year fixed term contract

Annual Leave Entitlement: 28 days’ annual leave, including UK bank holidays.

Pension: 3% employer pension contribution on eligible earnings.

Location: Minimum 2 days per week based in North London office, remote working available for maximum 3 days a week

Closing date: 5 January 17.00 GMT

About the Role: This is a brand‑new role that offers an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to bring creative passion and storytelling into the social justice space. Ubele is eager to elevate our communications as part of a strategy refresh and upcoming organisational restructure, welcoming a new team member to help shape our visible impact.

Main

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide design and creative support across all departments, ensuring that all visual materials align with our brand identity.
• Maintain and evolve the organisation’s brand guidelines, ensuring consistency across all design assets, marketing materials, and sub-brands.
• Design high-quality graphics, digital assets, and printed materials for various projects, including reports, funding applications, presentations, newsletters, and promotional materials.
• Collaborate with internal teams to develop visual assets for campaigns, funding programmes, and stakeholder engagement.
• Oversee the design of event collateral, including signage, brochures, and digital event promotions.

• Support the Social Media Intern and Head of Communications by designing engaging social media content, including static posts, carousels, and infographics.
• Edit short‑form content for social media platforms, ensuring designs are visually compelling, informative, and on brand.
• Develop easy‑to‑use templates for social media and presentations to empower staff to create content independently while maintaining brand consistency.
• Stay up to date with digital trends, keeping our social media visuals fresh and relevant.
• Act as the in‑house photographer, capturing high‑quality images at events, meetings, and key organisational activities.
• Edit and prepare photographs for use across digital and print platforms, ensuring a high standard of visual storytelling.
• Maintain a well‑organised image library, making it easy for teams to access high‑quality photography for marketing and communications.
• Support basic video editing for short clips used in social media, marketing and stakeholder engagement (preferred but not essential).

• Work closely with the Head of Communications to plan and execute creative projects that align with the organisation’s strategy.
• Liaise with freelancers and external agencies when necessary to ensure the delivery of high‑quality design work.
• Ensure that all creative assets and design materials are stored, categorised and easily accessible in a centralised digital library.
• Provide occasional design workshops or guidance to internal staff on maintaining brand consistency.

• Attend and participate in internal and external meetings, including London, South and East regions and Ubele meetings with key stakeholders.
• Attend relevant training to fulfil the requirements of the job.
• Undertake other duties that may from time to time be required and are appropriate to the responsibilities of the post.
• Ensure that The Ubele Initiative internal policies and procedures are followed in all areas of work.
• Treat with confidentiality any information that could be deemed personal, private or sensitive, and comply with GDPR and safeguarding requirements.

Person Specification

Essential:

• Proven experience in communications, PR or campaigns, ideally within the charity, community or social justice sectors.
• Strong understanding of issues affecting Black and Global Majority communities in the UK.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling narratives across multiple platforms.
• Experience managing social media, press engagement and digital campaigns.
• Ability to translate complex data and research into accessible, impactful content.
• Track record of stakeholder engagement, partnership working and coalition‑building.
• Creative and strategic thinker with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Desirable:

• Experience in advocacy, influencing or policy communications.
• Familiarity with the UK philanthropy and grant‑making landscape.
• Skills in digital design, video or multimedia content creation.
• Experience working with community‑led organisations.