Responsibilities: Your daily responsibilities will include
• Developing a distinctive and world-class visual style to position CfA as a leader among global partners
• Designing and establishing brand identities for CfA’s projects and products as needed
• Producing brand assets and designs to complement CfA and partner content, as well as social media promotions and campaigns.
• Crafting, adapting and maintaining brand guidelines for CfA and CfA’s products and projects.
• You’ve worked with globally recognised brands or projects, or are able to create world class branding (such as Google, The Economist, and Vox.com, and Rest of the world)
• Enforcing these brand guidelines to ensure consistent, high visual standards across CfA’s platforms.
• Contributing designs for digital properties such as websites, social media videos and marketing merchandise.
• Contributing to designs for printed collateral such as stickers, t-shirts and banners
• Maintaining a reference list/database of competitors and benchmarks of quality.
Required: minimum requirements include:
• Proven experience working in a similar role or field, preferably for at least 3 years
• Ability to articulate a brand or project’s story through design assets, effectively capturing its vision and tone.
• A strong grasp of design principles, such as emphasis, alignment and balance, contrast, repetition, proportion, movement, and white space.
• Mastery of design software, such as the Adobe Creative Suite (e.g., Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), and other relevant design tools.
• A creative flair and a keen eye for keeping pace with emerging design trends globally and within Africa
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with multinational team members and partners, interpreting and conveying brand concepts through design.
Preferred: candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage:
• Ability to transform brand identities into visually appealing marketing assets, including web and social media designs,, email campaigns, roll up banners, stickers, t-shirts, and leaflets.
• Ability to work in both traditional and digital mediums, combing them to create powerful visual identities that stand out from the crowd
• Ability to create a variety of formats, from stills to gif to longer animations
• Understanding of what works best for different platforms such as Facebook vs Twitter vs TikTok vs WhatsApp
• Capable of working independently and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Familiarity with digital collaboration tools like Slack, Google Drive, Trello and Airtable.
Language and Location Requirements:
• Location: Anywhere in Africa
• Primary languages: English
• Preferred but not required: Amharic, Arabic, Hausa, French, Kiswahili or any other major language spoken in Africa