Volunteer Designer for animal charity

Volunteer Graphic Designer We’re looking for a talented and creative Volunteer Graphic Designer to help us bring our ideas to life and make sure our communications look as good as the work we do. You’ll work with our team to create a wide range of materials, including posters, leaflets, newsletters, fundraising appeals, social media graphics, adoption materials, event promotions and other communications. What you’ll do Take ideas and creative briefs from our team and turn them into strong visual designs. Create eye-catching posters, flyers, leaflets and other printed materials. Help us produce attractive and engaging newsletters. Design graphics for social media and digital communications. Create materials for fundraising campaigns, appeals and events. Help us tell the stories of the animals we rescue and the people we support through compelling visual content. Work within our existing brand and help develop a consistent and recognisable visual style. Suggest your own creative ideas and approaches. Make amendments and develop designs based on feedback. Prepare artwork for both digital use and professional printing. What we’re looking for We’re looking for someone who is creative, reliable and has a great eye for design. You’ll ideally have experience in graphic design and be able to show us examples of your work or a portfolio. You’ll be able to take a fairly simple idea or brief and turn it into something polished, professional and visually engaging. You’ll have a good understanding of design principles including layout, typography, imagery and colour, and be comfortable adapting your approach for different audiences and purposes. Experience using Canva or similar software would be useful, but we’re more interested in your creativity and the quality of your work than the particular software you use. You’ll need to be able to work independently, manage agreed deadlines, take feedback positively and pay attention to detail. You don’t need previous charity experience, but an interest in animal welfare and a desire to use your skills to make a difference would be a real advantage. Why volunteer with us? Your work will have a direct and visible impact. Good design helps us reach more people, raise more money and ultimately do more for animals and the people who care for them. Your designs could help someone decide to adopt an animal, encourage someone to donate, attract a new volunteer or help us reach a family who needs support with veterinary costs. This is an opportunity to use your creative skills for a local charity where your work will genuinely make a difference. The role is flexible and can largely be carried out remotely. We can agree projects and deadlines around your availability, so it could suit an experienced designer, someone returning to design, or a creative professional looking to volunteer their skills for a worthwhile cause. If you have a creative eye, enjoy turning ideas into great-looking finished products and would like to use your skills to support local animal welfare, we’d love to hear from you. What are we looking for? We’re looking for a creative, reliable and enthusiastic person who can take an idea and turn it into a professional, engaging and visually appealing finished product. The most important thing is strong graphic design ability and a good eye for design. We’re not necessarily looking for someone with a particular qualification or a specific career background. We’re looking for someone who understands what makes good visual communication and can create designs that catch people’s attention, communicate a message clearly and encourage people to take action. Our ideal volunteer will have experience creating materials such as posters, leaflets, flyers, newsletters, social media graphics, fundraising materials or promotional content. We’d particularly welcome someone who can show examples of their previous work through a portfolio or examples of designs they have created. We’d like someone who can take a relatively simple brief from us - for example, an idea for a fundraising appeal or an adoption campaign - and use their own creativity to develop the concept into something really effective. We will often provide the content, photographs and key messages, but we need someone who can think about how best to present these visually. The ability to work with an existing brand and maintain a consistent look and feel is important. You’ll need a good understanding of layout, typography, imagery, colour and visual hierarchy, as well as an ability to adapt designs for different audiences and formats. Experience with Canva or similar design software would be useful. However, we’re more interested in what you can create than which software you use. We’re also looking for someone who is: Creative - able to bring fresh ideas and suggest different ways of presenting our messages. Visually aware - with a strong eye for composition, typography, imagery and detail. Reliable - able to agree real