Senior Graphic Designer needed at Adams & Adams
Job title : Senior Graphic Designer
Job Location : Gauteng, Pretoria
Deadline : January 13, 2025
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Duties and responsibilities
- Think creatively to produce new and fresh ideas.
- Design a wide variety of printed and digital collateral such as the firm’s corporate identity, stationery, indoor/outdoor signage materials, newspaper advertisements, promotional materials, PowerPoint presentations, web layouts, social media elements, outdoor media, internal and external communications, stationery, etc.
- Communicate ideas with relevant stakeholders through meetings and feedback that results in approval of designs prior to implementation.
- Create designs that are artistically interesting and appealing to clients and consumers. Produce rough illustrations of design ideas, either by hand sketching or by using a computer program.
- Manage a full suite of visual collateral for each project from typesetting through to design, and final digital (including social media platforms) and/or print formatting.
- Create Internal and external communication mailers such as invitations, confirmations, product updates, birthdays, religious holidays, sport events etc. with quick turn-around times.
- Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
- Liaise with external printers and digital service providers on a regular basis to ensure deadlines are met and material is produced to the highest quality.
- Keep abreast of emerging technologies in new media, particularly design programs.
- Produce accurate and high-quality design work on time.
- Manage database of stock images, files, photographs and reference material.
- Ability to proofread own work to produce accurate and high-quality work.
- General administration work within the portfolio
- Regularly research new media, particularly design programs/applications, online software, plug-ins, etc.
Requirements
Skills and knowledge
- Excellent IT skills, especially with design and photo-editing software
- Excellent design and layout skills
- Exceptional creativity and innovation
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Fast turnaround of design work – essential
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- An understanding of the latest trends and their role in a commercial environment
- Professional approach to time, costs and deadlines
- Ability to work in a multi-task and multi-deadline environment, under immense pressure.
- Ability to work independently/self-manage briefs and activities yet collaborate with other team members.
- Good communication and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to make limited changes to website.
- Good understanding of designing for and using direct mailer software such as Everlytic or Mailchimp
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Advanced knowledge of pre-press and print production
- Ability to make changes on the back end of a WordPress / Umbraco website or other CMS platforms.
- Both Mac and PC hardware/software
Qualification/s
- Grade 12 (Matric) or equivalent
- Tertiary qualification in Graphic Design is required
- Approximately 5 – 7 experience in similar environment
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