NHQ:ISD - PREP: Graphic Design Volunteer: Global Preparedness

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The volunteer will collaborate with the Communications Lead at the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) to create graphic materials to raise awareness of disaster preparedness messages and global initiatives. The volunteer will join a team within the Engagement and Innovation Unit at GDPC along with Content Contributors and additional Graphic Design Volunteers.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with the GDPC team to support website design and content marketing for the GDPC website (preparecenter.org), blog, social media, and more.
• Help generate new ideas for design and content creation.
• Scope and create digital content to increase impact of posting on social media, preparecenter.org, email, and other channels.
• Manage other design needs such as presentations, signage, reports, and proposals.
• Support efforts to improve usability, readability, and GDPC image across all media.
• Work with the communications team on campaign initiatives.
• Support high quality web design for preparecenter.org.

Required qualifications:

• Current or past work either as an in-house designer or at a marketing agency.
• Access to portfolio of videos you’ve worked on that you can share with the team
• Excellent graphic design techniques or abilities.
• Experience in web design, preferably on Wordpress
• Experience using graphic tools like Canva, Adobe Suite, or Pictochart.
• Familiarity with social media best practices.
• Experience with video post-production, production, writing scripts, and/or animated video.
• Familiarity with disaster preparedness and humanitarian services.
• Willing to download and use communication and task management platforms such as Slack, Trello, Zoom, Google Docs, or One Drive.
• Volunteer will need reliable access to resources needed to volunteer virtually.

Preferred qualifications:

• Creative thinking.
• Experience in virtual reality, augmented reality.

1 year with opportunity for renewal