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Executive Creative Director | 4 days/wk

Hey you! Come and change the world with us.

Shape History works with partners – charities, brands, NGOs and more – to tackle some of the biggest issues facing humanity today. From Climate Change to Gender Equality to Digital health to Human rights and much more. 

These are some big, tough, hairy challenges. To meet them, we’re looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Executive Creative Director to head up our creative department and set the vision for the agency. 

If you’re that rare someone who leads teams to both happiness and success, and you’ve got a passion for making the world a better place, then we want to talk to you. 

Who we are:

We’re a full-service, social impact communications agency based in London. We work with partners all over the world – think charities, businesses, UN groups, academic brains, and big-hearted folks – to literally ‘Shape History’. 

What we want:

An Executive Creative Director with 10-15 years’ agency experience to lead our creative teams. 

Someone who can inspire the best possible practices in developing creative proposals, planning major campaigns, supervising the creative process, and guiding the team that works under you. 

This role is 4 days per week (with the ambition to increase to full time within 12-18 months), with at least 2 days in our London office, reporting to our Co-Managing Directors.

How you’ll be shaping history everyday:

  • Establish a creative philosophy & vision for the agency so that we’re even more awesome at everything we do. 
  • Build the best culture, environment and working processes for our creative teams so they’re even more awesome at what they do too.
  • Pitch concepts and proposals to prospective partners.
  • Build relationships with current & potential partners through your own networks, speaking engagements, and thought leadership. 
  • Oversee the quality of major creative projects from soup to nuts. 

You’re exceptional at… (role requirements)

  • Leadership: excellent leadership and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to inspire the creative team to give their best. 
  • Creativity (well, of course): sparking ideas that win everything – all the partners, all the audiences, and all the awards. 
  • Communication: Exhibiting strong written and verbal communication skills, as well as presentation skills for outstanding pitches. 
  • Business: understanding how the creative teams complement other departments, such as strategy, project management, finance and data management
  • Empathy: helping to foster inclusive and diverse creative teams. 

Extra bit of awesome:

What’s that, you say?  You have a bank of relationships and contacts across brands and NGOs you can introduce Shape History? 

Or sector-specific knowledge in the social impact/sustainability/charity/political sector?

Oh, you speak another language? 

Any and all of these things would be the icing on the cake. 

Inclusivity:

We are committed to having an inclusive culture in which everyone feels safe and supported to achieve their potential. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented and minority groups, including those with lived experience of social issues we are working to address.

Equally, we are committed to creating an environment that both celebrates and supports neurodiversity. We’ve put measures in place to support you throughout this recruitment but actively encourage you to ask us for any additional support. 

As part of this strategy, we use a blind recruitment process in our first round of applications. 

Remuneration: 

Salary range: Base annual salary of 75,000-90,000 pro rata + discretionary yearly bonus (both personal and company)

Recruitment process:

If you are interested in the role, please email your CV and portfolio to recruitment@shapehistory.com

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JOIN THE TEAM

Our team are full of campaigners who genuinely want to create an impact in society. We see the agency as a place for individual and collective evolution. We therefore put an emphasis on training for the team and ensure that everyone can be their full self when coming into the office.
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WHY JOIN OUR TEAM?

We put the individuals in the Shape History team at the heart of every decision that is made. Here are just *some* of the reasons we think you should join the team.

We run our own internal campaigns to build passion projects with no restrictions. We also have the History Shaper Fund, a public fund that offers grants to young people.

We commit time and financial resources into the two strands of the programme - History Shaper Campaigns and the History Shaper Fund.

We understand that people work best at different times in the day, and either at home or in the office so we're super flexible!

4x per year, the full team comes together to take part in workshops, activities and socials. Previous team days have included axe throwing (not at each other), graffiti spraying and team challenges around London. We also celebrate our values by hosting a Culture afternoon once per quarter.

Each team member is entitled to 24 days of holiday plus a Christmas shutdown period and bank holidays. During Summer months, you finish early on Fridays.

We think that the team has a vitamin C deficiency because the amount of fruit they devour during Monday huddles is ridiculous. Enjoy that, as well as prosecco Thursdays!

Our main priority is our team and the culture that runs throughout the agency. We put emphasis on working with team members to unfold their individual and unique potential.

We value our mental health and think it’s healthy to talk about it at work. That’s why we've partnered with Sanctus, so you can book a 50-minute coaching session each month.

We don’t shy away from talking about money at SH - we actively encourage it! We ask each team member to conduct a self reflective assessment involving writing a salary proposal for the year ahead. We also offer both company and personal bonuses!

For those who menstruate, it’s shitty enough to have to deal with the pain, not to mention the cost. That’s why we offer paid sick days to curl up in bed. We also offer sustainable, zero chemical period products whilst you’re in the office.

We have signed up to the UK government’s cycle to work scheme. We've also partnered with loveelectric - a B Corp with a focus on solely electric cars.

Available opportunities

Executive Creative Director | 4 days/wk