In doing so you will stay at the cutting edge of your field, curating benchmarks and keeping ahead of trends in digital storytelling to ensure that CfA stands apart. The resulting content will be published across all of our platforms, to engage and inspire members of our ecosystem. You will need to inject a sense of passion, energy and immediacy into all these campaigns, through clever designs and illustrations. Your primary role will be to find visual treatments for the branded content and technologies that our teams build. You will occasionally also collaborate with the Data Designer, Illustrator and UX Designer in CfA’s StoryLab team. We amplify the work of our experts and external project partners across Africa, and communicate our shared vision of a more open, connected, and technologically empowered continent.Īs the Junior Multimedia Designer you’ll work alongside the senior designer to create engaging visuals, copywriters to create the narrative, copyeditors to make the content sing, and social media strategies to ensure that we’re getting the best out of the platforms themselves. The team is responsible for telling CfA’s story, and keeping it accessible and engaging. The successful candidate will join us on CfA’s Engagement team. Preferred but not required: Amharic, Arabic, Hausa, French or Kiswahili.Location: Candidates from Kenya, Nigeria or South Africa are preferred, but strong candidates from across Africa will be gladly considered.You’re experienced with digital collaboration tools, including Slack, Google Drive, Trello and Airtable.You’ve worked on brands or projects that are globally recognised and disruptive.You’re familiar with design prototyping tools like Figma and Sketch.You’ve built an engaged community or gathered an active following around the content you’ve created.You have a knack for telling immersive stories across different platforms, customised to the specific audience while remaining true to the core narrative.Preferred: candidates who are able to demonstrate the following will have an advantage You are able to work with writers, developers and product managers to plan out visual content across multiple platforms.You understand the relative strengths of the different social media platforms, and the different narrative/visual techniques necessary for engaging the different audiences on these platforms.You have mastery of the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, in particular XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, and AfterEffects.You’ve worked on content that went viral, became a meme, or made a meaningful impact on a community.You have a portfolio/showreel of demonstrating your graphic design and/or animation/social video/GIF/ illustration making skills.If successful, you will work on projects spotlighting human trafficking, misinformation, public health threats, award winning investigations and much more. The successful candidate will work as part of a multinational and multilingual team, using digital collaboration tools to create content for a global audience and international media partners. All you need is a talent for creating strong visual content. Candidates can hail from the media, advertising, or any other creative industry. Your application will be judged based on your creative talent and technical expertise in graphic design and/or simple illustration and animation skills.

The successful candidate will help CfA create graphic designs and animations (such as animated GIFs and short engaging videos) to spark conversations on social media. The team actively works to grow CfA’s reputation and amplify our thought leadership and accomplishments through compelling multimedia storytelling. Use your visual storytelling skills to champion digital democracy across Africa.Ĭode for Africa (CfA) has an immediate vacancy for a full-time Junior Multimedia Designer to join our Engagement team and turbocharge audience engagement around our digital democracy and civic technology projects.ĬfA’s Engagement team is responsible for managing CfA’s public audience, by managing our platforms, communications and brand.

Positions in: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and elsewhere in Africa

Junior multimedia designer