Role Snapshot
This temporary junior graphic designer creates original print and digital visuals, including campaign collateral, social media graphics, email campaigns, and event materials, to support fundraising, donor stewardship, and outreach for a department's mission. The role maintains brand identity standards across all communications.
Key Responsibilities: The designer develops creative concepts and final artwork, builds and deploys email campaigns in Salesforce Marketing Cloud, helps manage project schedules and budgets, coordinates with vendors and stakeholders, and keeps organized, production-ready design files.
Skills & Tools: Strong graphic design and visual communication skills, familiarity with brand standards and accessibility practices, and experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud or similar email tools are needed. Collaboration, clear creative communication, and the ability to take direction from a senior designer are also important.
Qualifications: The role calls for a degree or equivalent experience in graphic design or a related field, plus a portfolio showing print and digital work. Prior experience with email marketing platforms and project coordination is a plus.
Location: Hybrid
Compensation: $28K–$38K/yr (estimated)
Job Description
Key responsibilities include:
- Create original graphic designs, artwork, and visual materials that align with the mission and strategic goals of the department.
- Clearly communicate creative ideas and design direction through thoughtful, audience-focused visual solutions.
- Implement and maintain the department brand identity standards and guidelines, ensuring consistency across all marketing and communication materials.
- Develop project-specific creative strategies that support a variety of Foundation priorities, including fundraising campaigns, donor stewardship, annual giving, events, education, and community outreach.
- Create concepts and original designs for both print and digital communications, including: Campaign collateral, Social media graphics, Website content and landing pages, Email marketing campaigns, Digital publications, Presentations, Event materials and signage.
- Design, develop, test, and deploy email campaigns using Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
- Collaborate with the Graphic Designer and internal stakeholders throughout all phases of project development.
- Consult and liaise with internal and external partners, production teams, and vendors under the guidance of the Graphic Designer.
- Assist in managing project schedules and budgets to ensure deadlines and objectives are met.
- Maintain organized project files, creative assets, and production-ready artwork in accordance with departmental standards.
- Contribute ideas and creative solutions during team brainstorming sessions, campaign planning, and project reviews.
- Stay current on industry trends, design best practices, digital communications, accessibility standards, and emerging technologies.
This is a Hybrid role requiring two days on-site per week.