The British Council is looking for five Design Freelancers for marketing for the following Strategic Business Units:
- RFP1: English European Union
- RFP2: English Wider Europe
- RFP3: Exams European Union
- RFP4: Exams Wider Europe
- RFP5: Cultural Engagement EU and Wider Europe
The Contracts awarded will be for a duration of 2 years with an option for an extension for up to an additional 2 extensions of one year each.
Creative works overview
From time to time the British Council requires the below services. Please note that this list is not exhaustive of all service requirements.
- Adaptation of digital templates provided by British Council in Photoshop or InDesign.
- Creative support – Consultancy and implementation.
- Paid: Creative development and design for most popular paid channels across all formats including social media posts, stories, reels, display and video ads, ads for programmatic, GDN, YouTube video ads, display and animated ads, audio for Spotify and others.
- Organic: Content creation of infographics, IG Stories, Reels, tutorials, video (testimonials, pills, videographic, animations, etc.), blog posts, email copies, email images, hero images for our corporate websites, YouTube thumbnails, and any other relevant content for organic channels.
- Offline materials design, including printed promotional materials such as flyers, brochures, events banners, etc.
- Localising the campaign assets into 20+ languages working with British Council’s translators.
Subject to any changes notified to potential suppliers by the British Council in accordance with the Proposal Conditions, the intended timescales applicable to this Procurement Process are:
| Activity | Date / time |
| RFP Issued to bidding suppliers | 13 September |
| Deadline for clarification questions (Clarification Deadline) | 20 September |
| British Council to respond to clarification questions | 22 September |
| Deadline for submission of RFP responses by potential suppliers (Response Deadline) | 2 October |
| Final Decision | 6 October |
| Contract concluded with winning suppliers | 13 October |
| Contract start date | 16 October |
To apply, please submit all mandatory documentation (Supplier Response and Pricing Approach) described in the Request for Proposal to ionut.atanasiu@britishcouncil.org by October 2, as set out in the Timescales section of the RFP/ITT document.
Please clearly state in your email as well as in the submitted documentation for which of the following Strategic Business Units you focus your proposal (you can choose one or more): English (Teaching) activities in the EU region or English (Teaching) activities in the Wider Europe region, Exams activities in the EU region or Exams activities in the Wider Europe or Cultural Engagement activities in Europe.