Graphic Designer (Volunteer)
Translation Commons
Graphic Designer, Marketing Group (Volunteer )
Translation Commons is looking for a creative and motivated candidate to take up the volunteer position of Graphic Designer for the Marketing Group. This position requires to work closely with the marketing team to help create digital assets for the website and social media channels. The candidate will help create videos and graphics, and assist with website and social media needs . This is a great opportunity for you to contribute to an international volunteer organization and to share your expertise.
The Marketing Group is responsible for fulfilling the marketing needs of Translation Commons. This includes social media management, market research, SEO consulting, and more.
Through this position, you will learn the inner workings of the marketing department of a non-profit organization focused on languages. This role will help you pursue careers in social media management, marketing localization, marketing research, and multilingual SEO.
This is a volunteer and remote opportunity.
Responsibilities include:
- Create graphics and videos for banners, newsletter, social media, web pages, and campaigns.
- Think creatively and develop new design concepts, graphics, and layouts.
- Capture video and perform editing. Convert video to digital format and produce video clips to be used in different social media platforms.
We are looking for individuals with the following qualifications/skills:
- Visionary outlook of the group’s contribution to TC’s mission;
- Able to work on Canva, Adobe Illustrator and/or any similar software
- Ability to identify problems and to use creativity and initiative to solve them;
- Strong project management skills;
- Able to work on Canva, Adobe Illustrator and/or any similar software
- Able to commit about 5 hours weekly
- Being punctual and meeting deadlines
- Good organizational / Communication skills
- Weekly commitment of at least 5 hours per week.
About Translation Commons
Location:
19800 VALLCO PKWY UNIT 422, CUPERTINO, CA 95014, US
Mission Statement
We believe in the power of language to... - share knowledge and sustain cultures, - change the lives of our volunteers, - provide professional opportunities.
Description
Translation Commons is a non-profit volunteer community of language lovers, professionals and technologists. We provide a roadmap and create resources for a digital ecosystem where all languages have equal access and speakers can pursue educational, cultural and economic opportunities.
We are partners to the International Year of Indigenous Languages, a UNESCO initiative, and are creating resources for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, 2022-2032, making language rights a reality for all people! Our Language Digitization Initiative is enabling many languages to get their script online and partake to digital opportunities.
Our volunteers are the heart and soul of our community. Their passion for language and their expertise in technology are the cornerstones of all our initiatives. Our activities are centered around career paths that volunteers can engage, experience and practice.
Our platform offers over 40 free language related tools. Our courses and resources include a variety of language topics, all created by our volunteers.
Our Covid-19 poster-maker is translated in over 350 languages and for the majority of these communities, our poster is the only Covid-19 information available in their language. Our volunteers also offer their help to other organizations responding to the Covid-19 crisis.