Graphic Designer

Hybrid (London, UK) Greenpeace UK

Graphic Designer

Salary: £48,396- £55,644 per annum + benefits (0.9FTE pro-rata £43,556 - £50,079)

(We normally offer a starting salary at the start of the range)

Closing date: Sunday 30th, August 2026 (23:59)

Based: Islington, London – hybrid working

 

Location: Islington, London. Our hybrid working model enables us to enjoy the benefits of both office based and remote working. We ask that staff work from the office in Islington 40% of their time, with 20% required as a minimum. Reasonable adjustments as well as specific office based needs will be considered for those with long term health conditions and disabilities.

Greenpeace UK is an independent national/regional organisation within the global Greenpeace campaigning network, which acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace. The global network of Greenpeace organisations comprises 26 independent national/regional Greenpeace organisations with presence in over 55 countries across Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, as well as a coordinating and supporting organisation, Greenpeace International.

Joining a newly formed Creative and Production team as the sole Graphic Designer, we are seeking a multi-skilled visual creative to deliver projects from concept to completion, delivering engaging visuals across Greenpeace’s communications – from campaign leaflets, reports and posters, to advertising concepts, prop design and volunteer toolkits. 

You’ll craft high-impact visual storytelling to elevate campaigns, drive fundraising, and empower local groups. Whilst this is a hands-on role primarily focused on design delivery, you will also contribute to art direction and co-develop bold concepts working with a Copywriter and the studio team.

This role ensures visual and written elements integrate seamlessly to support overarching organisational objectives, inspire action and drive maximum impact across all initiatives.

 

Job requirements

You will achieve this by:

• Conceptualising, designing, and delivering engaging, accessible visual content across a wide variety of activation, print and digital platforms, ensuring all artwork meets technical and output specifications.
• Upholding brand identity and accessibility standards, building versatile design templates and coordinating with external print suppliers to maintain high production quality control.
• Partnering with copywriters, video producers, photo editors and stakeholders to create cohesive visual concepts, offer art direction, and provide clear strategic design rationale.
• Empowering internal content creators and other team members with core design principles, practical visual tools, templates, and a designer mindset.
• Working closely with the Studio Manager to prioritise projects, manage individual workload, proactively solve production challenges, and maintain well-organised final asset files.
• Actively championing anti-racist values - tailoring your approach to those with different perspectives, and helping Greenpeace to reach a broader, more diverse audience.

About you

You are proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, skilled at developing ideas and artwork from concept to final delivery, and committed to inclusive, accessible design practices. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, taking calculated design risks to produce standout work.

If you bring fresh ideas, technical expertise, and a passion for using design to spark meaningful change, we would love to hear from you!

Essential criteria  

To apply for this role, we require you to answer a selection of Essential Criteria and upload a fully updated CV, along with a PDF illustrating a case study or example of your original work to evidence your written answers for each Essential Criteria:

                                                                                               

• Demonstrate expert mastery of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator)
• Ability to take a creative concept or 'big idea' and translate this into powerful, high-impact visual outputs.
• Experience in creating templates and toolkits to empower non-designers (e.g. Canva, PowerPoint, Word or Google docs)
• Experience developing cross-functional relationships, driving strong creative collaboration across copy, web, and photo editing
• Proven track record of commitment to anti-racism and a strong understanding of how to embed equity, inclusion and anti-oppressive principles into their design practice, both in shaping the process and the end product of work.

We give you: 

You’ll be encouraged to develop both personally and professionally, taking advantage of the wide range of learning and development opportunities available to our staff. We offer great benefits such as a generous pension scheme, subsidised lunches, free yoga and a wealth of well-being resources, just to name a few. Take a look at our Work for Greenpeace pages to find out more about what it’s like to work for us and why you should apply.

Our commitment to diversity:

We acknowledge that people from certain backgrounds are under-represented in environmental and campaigning organisations and we’re committed to doing what we can to correct this.

One of our Anti Racism Plan objectives is to proactively achieve stronger representation of people of colour, particularly within leadership positions, and we have recently published ambitious race representation targets. 

As part of our commitment to increasing representation of people from underrepresented communities in the environmental sector, we are piloting a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) as a new approach to make our recruitment more equitable. If you identify as a person of colour, you can choose to opt in to the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

We will be aiming to offer everyone who opts into the scheme and meets the essential criteria a first stage interview. While we fully intend to honour this, exceptionally high application volumes may affect our capacity. If so, we will communicate clearly and keep candidates informed as we continue to learn and improve.

To Apply

For further information including the job description, please download the applicant information pack. Please ensure to save this file to your computer for future reference. Once the job listing has closed you will no longer be able to access it online.

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Greenpeace UK is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgro