Job Summary
Position overview:
Creating original artwork as required by client briefs, while adhering to existing brand standards. Reviewing drafts of the in-house design team to ensure quality and consistency in production. Managing the design process to ensure timeous delivery to clients.
Minimum requirements:
- Matric with a relevant tertiary qualification (BA / BSc in Design / Visual Arts / relevant)
- 3 - 5 years’ experience in managing a team
- At least 5 years Graphic design experience
- Portfolio of completed design projects
Responsibilities:
- Design independently as well as collaboratively with in-house design team
- Provide quality control of the briefs, ensuring all elements are available and clear before sending on to the relevant designer
- Manage the distribution and production of project workload of the in-house design team, prioritizing where necessary
- Set realistic timelines and manage client expectations
- Provide the design team with collective actionable feedback on design reverts
- Provide feedback to brand managers on the status of projects regularly
- Ensure design team members software subscriptions are annually renewed
- Set up and implement production processes and technical standards for design projects
- Conduct meetings with design team members, individually and collectively on a regular basis
- Implementing brand guidelines where appropriate and applying them to new artworks
- Provide quality control by overseeing the junior designer’s artwork, file formatting, quality and accuracy of final design
- Proofreading and preparing designs to be sent to print.
Competencies:
(Knowledge, skills and attributes)
Skill Competencies:
- Effective time management (personally and within the team)
- Ability to speak, read and write English fluently
- Advanced numerical skills and statistical skills
- Moderate MS Office skills, proficient with design software Adobe, InDesign, Photoshop
- The capacity to arrange the availability and allocation of resources. To plan, prioritise and systemise the action in line with required resources and timelines.
- Capacity to develop followers by providing them with clear and simple instructions, demonstrations and explanations and systematically exposing them to planned but increasingly challenging tasks
Behavioural Competencies:
- Capacity to appreciate people’s development needs
- The capacity to delegate specific task, not to take control of all tasks, to implement follow up control actions and/ or coaching actions where necessary
- The capacity to organise/ plan/manage time and to adequately allocate to and divide time between various aspects of work in order to optimize performance
- Capacity to focus on and achieve standards of service which comply with the highest expectations of clients
- The ability and capacity to take responsibility for own actions, others can rely on you, loyal and steadfast
- The ability to formulate, prioritise and execute pre-determined objectives
- Capacity to focus and achieve standards of service, which comply with the highest expectations of clients
