Graphic Designer

Organisation

Huddersfield Town AFC

Salary

£29,000 per annum

Location

Huddersfield

Contract type

Permanent (Full time)

Closing date

15 October 2026

Job Description

Post Title
Graphic Designer.

Department/Location
Marketing and Creative, Accu Stadium (and other company sites as required).

Reports To
Chief Operating Officer.

Purpose of the Role
The Graphic Designer is responsible for creating engaging and high-quality visual content that supports the Club's marketing, communications, supporter engagement, and commercial objectives.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the post holder will produce creative assets across digital, print, and motion graphic formats, helping to bring Huddersfield Town AFC's campaigns, stories, and brand to life. Working closely with colleagues across the Club, the Graphic Designer will create content that supports attendance growth, supporter acquisition, audience engagement, and commercial performance, helping to deliver the ambitions set out within the HTAFC Club Strategy 2026-2030.

The post holder will work closely with departmental colleagues to support the effective delivery of creative projects, ensuring work is completed to a high standard and within agreed timescales.

Position Within the Team

This role forms part of the Club's wider Creative Team alongside the Video Content Producers, Club Photographer, and Digital Content Producer. While the post holder reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer, they will work closely with other team members is relation to day-to-day coordination of briefs, workflow, priorities, and project delivery across the creative function. This role is focused on producing high-quality creative work that helps the Club grow and diversify its supporter base, increase engagement, strengthen the supporter and staff experience and support commercial success.

Key Relationships
Internal: Marketing and Creative team.
Digital Content Executive.
Heads of Department.
Terriers Together Working Group.
Town Sports and Entertainment Group (TSEG) staff.
Staff and managers throughout the organisation.

External: Design agencies.
Printing companies.
Creative professionals at other football clubs and sporting organisations.
Commercial partners and sponsors.
Key Performance Indicators
• Delivery of design and motion graphics projects against agreed deadlines and priorities.

• Consistently high standards of creative output across digital and print channels.

• Effective support of campaigns that drive attendance, supporter engagement, supporter growth, and commercial performance.

• Consistent application of the Club's visual identity and brand guidelines.

• Positive stakeholder feedback regarding quality, creativity and delivery.

• Accuracy and attention to detail across all creative outputs.

Role Specific Responsibilities

Graphic Design and Content Production

The post holder will:

• Design and produce high-quality visual assets across digital and print channels.

• Create graphics, artwork and promotional materials for marketing campaigns, supporter communications, staff engagement, match days, events, hospitality, retail, and partnership activity.

• Produce content for use across social media, websites, email communications, digital advertising, publications, and other supporter-facing channels.

• Create motion graphics, animations, and dynamic visual content for campaigns, stadium screens, and digital channels.

• Adapt and optimise creative assets for different audiences, channels, and formats.

• Ensure all work is delivered to agreed timescales, quality standards, and campaign objectives.

Campaign and Audience Engagement

The post holder will:

• Support campaigns designed to increase attendances, supporter engagement, supporter acquisition, and supporter retention.

• Develop creative assets that engage key growth audiences, including families, young people, women, and other under-represented communities or groups.

• Contribute creative ideas and concepts that enhance campaign performance and audience engagement.
Commercial and Revenue Generating Activity

The post holder will:

• Produce creative assets that support ticket sales, memberships, hospitality, retail and other commercial activity.

• Design promotional content for kit launches, retail campaigns, hospitality packages, events, mascot opportunities, sponsorship activations, and other Club events/initiatives.

• Create materials that maximise the visibility and value of Club partnerships.

• Develop creative solutions that help drive commercial performance and revenue growth.

Brand and Creative Standards

The post holder will:

• Ensure all creative work aligns with the Club's visual identity, brand guidelines and strategic objectives.

• Maintain high standards of creativity, consistency, and accuracy across all outputs.

• Ensure creative content reflects the values, ambitions, and diversity of Huddersfield Town Football Club and wider communities.

• Support the continued development of innovative and engaging creative approaches across Club activity.

Collaboration and Continuous Improvement

The post holder will:

• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Marketing and Creative and the wider organisation to deliver effective creative solutions.

• Interpret creative briefs and translate them into engaging visual content, communicating progress clearly to the brief owner.

• Work closely with video, photography, and digital content colleagues to produce integrated content.

• Keep up to date with design trends, emerging technologies, and industry best practice.

• Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and impact of creative content and campaign delivery.

This job description is not intended to be exhaustive, and the post holder is required to undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required by the Chief Operating Officer and/or any other Senior Leader within the Club, commensurate with the level of the post.

How to apply

Huddersfield Town AFC Graphic Designer Up to £29,000 per annum, depending on skills, qualifications, and experience. Full-time - 35+ hours per week. Permanent. An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Creative Team for a suitably qualified and experienced Graphic Designer to create engaging and high-quality visual content that supports the Club’s marketing, communication, supporter engagement, and commercial objectives. The successful candidate will be required to produce creative assets across digital, print, and motion graphic formats to help bring Huddersfield Town AFC’s brand, campaigns, and stories to life. Applicants must have previous, proven experience in a graphic design role producing both digital and print content, and motion graphics or animated content. Experience of managing projects from initial brief to final production is also essential. This role requires proficiency in industry standard software, particularly the Adobe Creative Cloud, and a strong foundation in core design principles such as typography, colour theory and visual composition. If you have the specified qualifications and personal attributes and are enthusiastic about the variety and opportunities that this role offers, we would love to hear from you. We receive a high volume of applications for our vacancies and as such, we encourage you to ensure that your application details how you feel you meet our requirements. The volume of applications received prevents us from being able to provide feedback at short-listing stage. To apply, please create an account in our online application portal and ensure you complete the associated questions in full. Please also highlight any factors that you would like us to consider, for example, if you have a disability or health condition that may require us to make reasonable adjustments in accordance with the Equality Act 2010. Safeguarding We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all staff and other stakeholders to share this commitment. Applicants must disclose all previous convictions including spent convictions in accordance with the associated legislation; this can be done via a private letter/disclosure to the Head of Human Resources and EDI. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot consider them. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed is available on the Ministry of Justice website. Equality and Inclusion Huddersfield Town AFC strives to promote a diverse and inclusive community – a place where everyone can be themselves and in which everyone feels valued, included, and supported to achieve their full potential. We offer a range of family-friendly and inclusive employment arrangements, and we have a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discrimination. We have comprehensive employment benefits including a Flexible Working Policy and enhanced provisions in relation to maternity, paternity, and adoption leave and pay. We are well known as a leader within the football industry for our inclusive practices. We hold the Advanced Level Health Check Award for the Premier League Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Standard (PLEDIS) and the Gold Award for the EFL Equality Code of Practice. We are also a Disability Confident Leader, a Mindful Employer, and the first organisation to be accredited as both a Menopause Friendly and Menstruation Friendly Employer. We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds, and we are particularly seeking to diversify our workforce in relation to gender, ethnicity, and disability. We are committed to the redress of any inequalities by taking positive action where appropriate. As a Club, we describe our vision as ‘Everything Together’ and our associated values relate to the word ‘Everything’. If your values align with ours, we would love to hear from you. Further information about the Company and working with us is available from the Careers section of our website: https://careers.htafc.com/ To apply, please complete the application form in our portal. If you need any assistance and/or would prefer to apply in an alternative format, please contact us by email to jobs@htafc.com We would also like you to submit a portfolio of your previous graphic design work to support your application. Please send your work to the email address above, ensuring it is clearly labelled with your name so we can connect it with your online application. Completed applications must be submitted by 9:00am on Thursday 15th October 2026. Interviews are likely to take place in late October 2026.

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