Junior designer, BBC Proms Publications

Closing date for applications: 26 November 2025

Salary: £29,000 - £33,000 plus London Weighting of £5,441 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Location: London

Contract type: 8-month attachment/fixed contract, full-time

Department: BBC Proms

Job band: C

Start date: The successful candidate will be required to start by Monday 12th January 2026

Bring your design skills to BBC Proms and play a key role in creating guides, programmes, and campaigns for the world's biggest classical music festival.

The BBC Proms is the biggest classical music festival in the world. We run over 100 live events over 2 months in the summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London and venues around the UK. Nearly everything we do is broadcast across BBC Radio, TV and online. We are a creative, innovative festival that connects with audiences around the UK and across the globe. You would be part of a dynamic team that looks after marketing, learning, communications, publications, business and live events. You will build skills in your chosen area and everyone on the team has a chance to work at events.

Click here to see a taste of the Proms in 2025. We want the Proms to be for everyone and are looking for people to help us do that. The 2026 Proms season runs from 17 July – 12 September.

As the junior designer you will work in the Proms publications team with the publications designer to produce creative print and digital design solutions for the BBC Proms, BBC Orchestras and Choirs and other BBC departments.


Responsibilities

• Assist the publications designer in the preparation and layout of material for the BBC Proms Guide, the Proms Mini Guide and BBC Proms and BBC Orchestras and Choirs printed concert programmes.
• Assist with the BBC Proms Brand rollout
• Liaise with stakeholders and contributors such as editors, printers and other BBC content production teams, ensuring copy and print deadlines are met
• Build new and use existing InDesign templates to produce promo pages, house ads and other elements for BBC Proms concert programmes (both print and digital)
• Design flyers, posters, leaflets, merchandise and other marketing materials for BBC Proms and BBC Orchestras and Choirs (e.g. campaign design, programmes, posters, adverts, flyers)
• Archiving and backup of all material

Knowledge, skills & experience

Essential

• Proven graphic design and artworking skills with a strong sense of visual aesthetics
• Experience of working on layout for multi-paged publications and marketing materials
• Experience of preparing work for print and comprehensive knowledge of print production
• Substantial experience of Mac systems and InDesign, with familiarity in paragraph and character styling
• Experience of using Photoshop and Illustrator to create engaging images for editorial and marketing content

Desirable

• Ability to maintain brand consistency and work to brand guidelines
• Ability to adapt and respond quickly to feedback from multiple stakeholders during the design process
• Ability to organise and prioritise a heavy workload while working to tight deadlines, with great attention to detail
• Ability to work well as part of a busy team

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity. We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.