The Bowen Group, a values-led, industry leader in telehealth, strategic communications, and wellness services and staffing is searching for a Graphic Designer. This is a full-time remote position available in select states *.
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CORE FUNCTIONS
Daily operational tasks include:
- Supporting the daily graphic design requirements for our contracts.
- Designing accessible collateral products, such as fact sheets, infographics, flyers and posters.
- Researching and providing images for websites and social media platforms.
- Working collaboratively with the cross-functional team supporting this work, including the project/strategic communications lead, the writer, the editor, the accessibility specialist and the development team.
- Working within the project management system to ensure all assigned tasks and projects are completed on time.
Skills in:
- Designing user-friendly, effective and appealing products that communicate specific educational or promotional needs.
- Generating concepts and determining the best visual communication strategy and solution for branding, print and web products.
- Developing logos and visual brands using established logo design process.
- Establishing style guide requirements for new brands.
- Ensuring visual consistency across a wide range of projects based on established style guides.
- Designing print material for use in physical and electronic format (booklets, brochure, posters, etc.).
- Designing large scale print material for events and interior spaces (pull up banners, step and repeat banners, column wraps, table cloths, etc.).
- Defining print specifications and review printer proofs.
- Creating moodboards, wireframes, mock ups and prototypes to communicate interaction and design ideas.
- Designing interactive elements for digital media (form fields, buttons, menus, etc.).
- Designing and optimizing graphics and images for use on online social media platforms.
- Developing web style guide for developers.
- Design file organization based on established process.
Ability to:
- Understanding latest methodologies and technologies in visual and UI design.
- Leverage creative solutions to solve design problems.
- Executing all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off.
- Apply design elements to create the best product.
- Presenting designs and key deliverables to peers and senior level stakeholders
- Express design terms, concepts and information effectively.
- Work collaboratively with clients, teammates and vendors.
- Adapt to changing requirements as they arise.
- Estimate project level of effort, timeline and scheduling.
- Manage time to meet task milestones and deadlines.
- Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, standards and processes through the creation of SOPs and guides.
- Occasional travel for onsite event support.
- Perform other duties as requested.
Personality and communication
- Strong aesthetics and perceptivity
- Attention to visual detail
- Organization, multitasking and prioritizing
- Effective communication skills
- Self-direction
- Problem-solving
- Flexible
- Teamwork
Efficiency and Time Management
Maintain expertise in software systems. Ensure a streamlined flow and process, work quickly, stay abreast of design trends and innovations and learn new software quickly. Multitask in a fast paced environment.
Quality Assurance Regulation
Support quality assurance programs. Support quality control policies and procedures through the adherence to quality standards. Ensure that all deliverables adhere to established policy and stylistic standards, acute attention to detail, ensure visual consistency.
File Management
Adhere to the file structure set in place for Creative Services; load all current/working files to the Design Server at the end of every workday. Keep software files organized. Load final client files to cloud platforms and update as needed.
Section 508 Compliance
Ensure all documents are prepared and finalized in accordance with Section 508 compliance requirements. Analyze documents for Section 508 compliance and troubleshoot accessibility issues with these documents.
Education and Work Experience:
- Education: Bachelors degree. Experience exceeding the minimum may be substituted for education. Likewise, education exceeding the minimum shown may be substituted for experience.
- Work Experience: At least three years of experience in graphic design and websites.
Industry Knowledge:
- Execution of design techniques, tools and principles including: execution of typography, visual hierarchy, composition and color for print and web.
- Conceptual Thought: developing creative concepts that effectively solve a client's needs.
- Proficiency using Adobe Creative Suite such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop as well as digital design tools such as Sketch and Adobe XD.
- Solid understanding of print production processes.
- Working knowledge of accessibililty standards for federal government.
- Technical skills and deliverables: organize and produce industry standard files and deliverables using to clients.
- Principles and processes for providing customer services, including needs assessment, meeting quality assurance standards, and resolving internal and external customer requests.
- Terms and concepts commonly expressed in the Armed Services and federal government.
- Microsoft Office familiarity.
Additional Requirements:
- Must be a U.S. citizen.
- Must be able to obtain a favorable background check.
- * This position is only open in the following states: AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, MD, MI, MA, MN, NM, NC, ND, NY, PA, RI, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WV.
