Graphic Designer

Position overview:

Creating original artwork as required by client briefs, while adhering to existing brand standards. Reviewing drafts of the in-house design team to ensure quality and consistency in production. Managing the design process to ensure timeous delivery to clients.

Minimum requirements:

•  Matric with a relevant tertiary qualification (BA / BSc in Design / Visual Arts / relevant)
•  3 - 5 years’ experience in managing a team
•  At least 5 years Graphic design experience
•  Portfolio of completed design projects

Responsibilities:

•  Design independently as well as collaboratively with in-house design team
•  Provide quality control of the briefs, ensuring all elements are available and clear before sending on to the relevant designer
•  Manage the distribution and production of project workload of the in-house design team, prioritizing where necessary
•  Set realistic timelines and manage client expectations
•  Provide the design team with collective actionable feedback on design reverts
•  Provide feedback to brand managers on the status of projects regularly
•  Ensure design team members software subscriptions are annually renewed
•  Set up and implement production processes and technical standards for design projects
•  Conduct meetings with design team members, individually and collectively on a regular basis
•  Implementing brand guidelines where appropriate and applying them to new artworks
•  Provide quality control by overseeing the junior designer’s artwork, file formatting, quality and accuracy of final design
•  Proofreading and preparing designs to be sent to print.

Competencies:

(Knowledge, skills and attributes)

Skill Competencies:

•  Effective time management (personally and within the team)
•  Ability to speak, read and write English fluently
•  Advanced numerical skills and statistical skills
•  Moderate MS Office skills, proficient with design software Adobe, InDesign, Photoshop
•  The capacity to arrange the availability and allocation of resources. To plan, prioritise and systemise the action in line with required resources and timelines.
•  Capacity to develop followers by providing them with clear and simple instructions, demonstrations and explanations and systematically exposing them to planned but increasingly challenging tasks

Behavioural Competencies:

•  Capacity to appreciate people’s development needs
• The capacity to delegate specific task, not to take control of all tasks, to implement follow up control actions and/ or coaching actions where necessary
•  The capacity to organise/ plan/manage time and to adequately allocate to and divide time between various aspects of work in order to optimize performance
•  Capacity to focus on and achieve standards of service which comply with the highest expectations of clients
•  The ability and capacity to take responsibility for own actions, others can rely on you, loyal and steadfast
•  The ability to formulate, prioritise and execute pre-determined objectives
•  Capacity to focus and achieve standards of service, which comply with the highest expectations of clients