Executive Creative Director | 4 days/wk

Last updated: September 2024

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.