Code for Africa Brand Designer Jobs in Uganda
Responsibilities:
• 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
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