Design Coordinator

Salary £36,000
Location Cromwell Road, London
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in 16 days at 23:59 GMT.
The Role
We're looking for a dynamic and ambitious Design Studio Coordinator to join our team.
What We're Looking For
The ideal person will be someone with a solid knowledge of design to run the studio and ensure effective resourcing and management of our portfolio of projects.
You are able to traffic all incoming work requests, plan team member schedules, be a first point of contact on brand and design enquiries, support the designers across the team, and take case of the day-to-day running of the studio.
This person will balance time working with the Design Team Leads, liaise with client teams and stakeholders to scope and set-up projects, collaborating with designers in the team and making sure things are in place for projects to run smoothly.
The Ideal Candidate Will Have

• Proven experience as a studio administrator or coordinator in a fast-paced creative environment - ideally within graphic design, advertising, or brand environment
• Experience of project/traffic management, resource allocation, budget management, team coordination and engagement of freelancers.
• Experience working with clients to scope projects, define briefs, create project plans for design work and allocate and manage resources accordingly.
• Experience to effectively brief and appoint a range of freelancers and collaborators, e.g. designers, illustrators, photographers, lighting designers, printers.
• Excellent client and communication skills.
• Experience running a busy operations, budgets and resources – from equipment and software to storage, material library, to training and team activities.
• Extensive knowledge of print production across a range of outputs
• Excellent in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
  

The V&A Design Studios works to ensure everyone can explore, be energised by and see themselves in the V&A, because difference fuels creativity and the V&A belongs to us all.
While apps like ChatGPT can be useful for research, we ask that you answer our questions in your own words. This will help us to get to know you as an individual as well as your thoughts about the role.
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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Benefits
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.
  

Job Descriptions are currently uploaded as PDF's, if for any reason you require the documents in Word Format, please email [email protected] with your request.
Documents
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