Junior Designer

THE ESSENTIALS

Role: Junior Designer

Platform: Operations

Status: Full time, permanent.

Salary: £26-£30k depending on experience

Start: ASAP

Base: Manchester. We typically work 4 days in the office, 1 day from home.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week.

Benefits:

• 25 holiday days per year;
• 4 ‘Me Days’ per year (take a Me Day – focus on you);
• Team social events and trips;
• Wellness allowance of £70 per month to be used for gym, classes, physio or other wellness costs;
• Private healthcare with Vitality;
• Mintago financial platform;
• Drive Electric salary sacrifice;
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and parental leave;
• Employee referral scheme: £2,000 towards a getaway of your choice

HSPG: A social impact real estate company

Our mission is simple: Building partnerships, creating homes, developing communities.

There is a critical lack of affordable housing across the UK, affecting the most vulnerable people in our community.

We build long-term partnerships with Local Authorities to acquire and manage demand-driven social and affordable housing across various tenures, as per the image below.

Across HSPG’s Living Sector platforms, we are actively acquiring 2,500 high-quality homes from national housebuilders and developers by the end of 2025. These properties are managed by our experienced team, grouped into portfolios, and funded by our institutional investment partners.

HSPG aims to positively impacts our residents’ lives, while providing long-term, sustainable returns for our investment partners.

Core mission:

You bring HSPG’s brand to life through thoughtful, high-quality design that supports internal and external communications, investor materials, and campaigns across the business.

You support the Brand Manager throughout the whole design process: from concept to delivery. You collaborate with stakeholders across departments to understand their needs and translate them into effective, on-brand visual solutions. You help ensure that everything we share internally, with partners, and the public is consistent, engaging, and aligned with our brand standards.

You are hands-on in producing visual content across multiple formats, including presentations, print, digital, social, and internal channels. You make it your mission to ensure every piece of collateral is clear, compelling, and beautifully executed.

You contribute to the evolution of HSPG’s visual identity by bringing fresh ideas and staying attuned to design trends and audience preferences. By taking ownership of day-to-day design delivery, you enhance brand perception, strengthen our reputation, and improve internal engagement.

You actively seek feedback and opportunities to grow your design skills, tools, and best practices in branding and communication.

Obsess: These points get you out of bed in the morning and keep you up at night! If you’re not obsessed with these, the role isn’t for you.

• Consistency - you spot when a font is off, a heading is misaligned, or the colours don’t match. You care deeply about the details others might miss.
• Clarity - you love turning complex information into visuals that are easy to understand and engaging to look at.
• Time management - you don’t wait for reminders. You’re proactive, organised, and take pride in hitting deadlines.

Excel: You are excellent at these areas: an expert.

• Brand application - you know how to work within brand guidelines, and when it’s appropriate to stretch them.
• Collaboration - you take on feedback with openness, listen to others, and deliver what’s needed without ego.
• Visual asset prep - you can confidently export assets for print and digital, with tidy, well-organised files that others can easily use.
• Presentation – you're the go-to for layout and formatting. You can turn basic content into slick, professional slides and proposals.

Specific experience:

• Strong portfolio showcasing layout and branding work
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite
• Skilled in Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint and Word
• Excellent attention to detail and a strong eye for design

Outcomes & Metrics: the desired result and how we measure it

0-3 Months

• Gain understanding of business platforms needs and stakeholders.

Present findings and insights to the Brand Manager.

• Review HSPG’s internal branding and formatting and present findings to Brand Manager

Create plan to improve brand position internally to be approved by stakeholders.

• Review and redesign letterheads for all brands across the group.

Work to brand guidelines and create efficient templates for business-wide use.

• Assist in maintenance of HSPG’ Core (Internal communications system)

Brand Manager will have limited involvement and you suggest changes and improvements..

• Assist in creation of Social Media graphics.

Create graphics from an internal brief. To be approved by Brand Manager.

• Assist with creation of assets for sales brochures.

Create assets for sales brochure. To be approved by Brand Manager.

3-6 Months

• Take ownership of the creation and styling of HSPG social media graphics

Create style guide specific to social media platforms, to be approved by Brand Manager.

• In line with HSPG Core, begin to produce internal emails (NTK) to be distributed across the business.

Brand Manager will have limited involvement

• Independently produce high quality sales brochures

Working with Sales Team ensuring all brochures are created in line with schemes going live.

• Assist in creation of new templates and tool kits for each brand.

Using new brand guidelines to provide all teams with all collateral needed.

• Creation of assets for HSPG and Group websites

To be signed off for use online by Brand Manager

6-12 Months

• Assist with annual review of branding across the group, keeping brand guidelines, tool kits and collateral up to date.

All branded collateral will be up to date and distributed for business use.

• Create templates for Investment Decks and Presentations

To be approved by Investment Team and Brand Manager

• Lead the annual update of internal documents such as policies and reports

Organise and maintain brand-related files on the shared drive.

• Support with creation of event collateral. Such as print, signage, flyers and decoration.

Proactively identify opportunities to elevate the brand experience at internal and external events.

• Become a guardian of the brand guidelines. Protecting the business visual representation.

Champion brand consistency across all channels and empower others to use brand assets correctly.