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Lead Designer
Teach For All
Posted 4 months agoRemote (Ghana / Uganda)
Location
Remote (Ghana / Uganda)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Design
Job Description
To advance Teach For All’s 25-year vision, we are seeking a multi-faceted graphic designer to provide essential capacity and expertise in maintaining Teach For All’s visual brand and design. This person will be responsible for executing day-to-day design projects and creating a broad range of materials (digital and physical). They will also play a key role in ensuring brand consistency, supporting staff and collaborators, and contributing to compelling, high-quality materials that communicate our purpose and connect our network.
Success in this role will mean:
Delivering compelling and well-crafted brand materials that resonate with diverse audiences and strengthen our visual identity
Upholding brand consistency and alignment across all design outputs, maintaining a cohesive and recognizable graphic system
Taking initiative to ideate and execute high-quality design projects that reflect creativity, attention to detail, and a deep understanding of the organization’s mission
The Communications and Experiences team exists to enable understanding, learning, and meaningful connection across the Teach For All network and beyond by curating, creating, and communicating products, experiences, and insights that bring to life our shared purpose, vision, and values. Our work cuts across all aspects of events, learning design and resources, platforms and communication channels, brand/design and promotion, video, and storytelling.
This role reports to the Head of Brand and Design and works closely with a circle of other collaborators who focus on brand and design-related work. They will be the primary designer for the organization, working with close supervision on many projects across the organization.
Each network partner recruits and develops promising leaders to teach in their nations’ under-resourced schools and communities and, with this foundation, to work with others, inside and outside of education, towards a world where all children have the education, support, and opportunity to shape a better future.
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Requirements
- General knowledge of graphic design principles, typography, photo retouching (other areas of expertise also welcome)
- Degree in art/design or equivalent training and work experience
- Creative thinking skills
- Familiarity with current digital and social media landscape as well as the broader design landscape
- Strong organizational skills - balancing multiple projects and stakeholders across time zones
- Ability to effectively synthesize and accommodate feedback from multiple stakeholders
- Strong storytelling skills—able to communicate ideas clearly and engagingly to diverse audiences
- Sensitivity to diversity in backgrounds and beliefs (e.g., racial, cultural, socioeconomic, political, etc.)
- Deeply committed to the mission, vision, and values of Teach For All
- Professional fluency in English is required (written, spoken, and reading)
- What Teach For All Offers
- Commitment to cultivating a culture in which all staff members feel they belong, are valu
Responsibilities
- Execution and management of design projects
- Styling decks: Creation of new pitch decks and external presentations, and review/refinement of staff-created decks
- Designing reports, documents, etc. for various audiences
- Design all physical branded materials (swag, signage, gift items)
- Design all digital assets for external promotion and social media
- Provide design support for video assets
- Create templates, one-off designs, and custom assets/graphics for emails/mass mailings
- Creation of infographics and other visuals to convey complex information
- All other design needs as they arise
- Design conceptualization and development
- Establish distinct identity for key in-person and virtual events or launches and design all related assets
- Develop visual identity for campaigns, including co-branding with other organizations or network partners when required
- Design new pages and features for Teach For All sites and revise the design of existing pages as needed
- Design and theme custom event websites (using third-party client)
- Contribute to establishing new visual identity and brand guidance for emerging organizations or initiatives
- Maintaining brand systems and libraries
- Support the creation and upkeep of all templates and guidance in line with our established brand identity
- Train and support staff to leverage templates and other brand resources and provide feedback on staff-created materials
- Maintain an organized library of design projects, assets and work files
- Research and test new tools for optimizing systems
- Teach For All is a global network of over 60 independent, locally led organizations and a global organization united by a commitment to developing collective leadership to ensure all children can fulfill their potential.
- Teach For All’s global organization works to increase the network’s impact by supporting the development of new organizations; fostering network connectivity and learning; providing coaching and consulting; and enabling access to global resourc
Benefits
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