Creative Associate

Value for Women

Apply by: 20 October 2024

We are hiring a Creative Associate at Value for Women

Value for Women is seeking a creative and skilled Creative Associate to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for design, visual storytelling, and the ability to bring concepts to life across a variety of digital platforms.

Value for Women is a global social enterprise that is growing in leaps and bounds. Since forming in 2012, Value for Women has grown to 32+ consultants operating from 14 countries. Our global team’s diverse experience allows us to engage on issues of gender through a regional lens, collaborating on projects that move the broader market forward on gender and social inclusion. In sum, our team is golden; our secret weapon, and our proudest resource. Joining this team will offer you the chance to collaborate, innovate and create visually exciting and compelling materials that support women, in all their diversity, to reach their full potential.

You will be able to work remotely from home, in a full-time equivalent role (approx 19 days per month), managing your own time across time zones with a results-driven mindset.

The Creative Associate will play a key role in advancing Value for Women’s mission by managing a broad spectrum of visual and digital content creation tasks. This role involves designing and implementing digital content and multimedia visualisations tailored to the organisation’s needs and serving a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders.

Joining our company as a Creative Associate offers you exciting opportunities for growth. You will be a visual storyteller, and be instrumental in developing visually appealing and engaging presentations whilst ensuring alignment with brand policy and best practices. You will have the chance to work with a diverse team and high-profile clients designing multimedia content across platforms. As we expand, you will grow and play a key role in shaping our visual identity with opportunities for growth in a dynamic and supportive environment.

Where does this role fit into the organisation?

The Creative Associate reports to the Communications Lead.

How much does this role pay?

Value for Women exclusively hires self-employed individuals, and fees are based on a US$ daily rate. The fee range for this role is US$115-229. Fees are determined by various factors including technical skill level and expertise, years of expertise and longevity as a consultant.

More about the Creative Associate responsibilities

In this dynamic role, you will be at the forefront of shaping Value for Women's growth and impact. We seek someone to do:

Visual Content Development:

• Lead on the design, format and edit of Google Slide decks, ensuring professional and engaging presentations in alignment with VfW brand guidelines.
• Develop creative design collateral including infographics, banners, brochures, posters, and social media content, as per the requirements of consulting projects, and corporate communications.
• Design and format both internal and client-facing publications and reports.
• Visualise and create graphics, including illustrations, logos, layouts, and photos, using tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator.

Website Content Creation:

• Conceptualize and create landing pages, as needed, on the organisational website (hosted on the CraftCMS platform).
• Update and maintain website content, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and organisational objectives.

Video Production and New Media:

• Edit and format videos for workshops, training, and other educational purposes.
• Produce creative media formats such as GIFs and podcasts to enhance digital outreach.
• Maintain and update Value for Women’s YouTube channel with engaging, high-quality content.

Strategic Planning and Collaboration:

• Provide inputs into developing a strategic plan for multimedia content on the company website and social media, aligning with organisational goals, and helping execute it.
• Collaborate with internal teams and if needed, with clients/partners, to develop and execute creative strategies for marketing campaigns, webinars, and other initiatives.

Internal VfW Magazine:

• Design creative content and multimedia visualisations for VfW's quarterly internal magazine and potentially internal blogs and email campaigns.
• Provide data analytics each quarter on readership and interaction statistics by internal audience.

Creative Collateral Management:

• Develop and maintain a catalogue of VfW’s creative collateral archives.
• Ensure externally produced multimedia assets are collected and archived.
• Create a bank of photography, templates, icons, and documents such as slide decks for use by VfW teams.
• Provide guidance on photo searches, manage the VfW database of organisational images, and maintain creative collateral archives.

Your role extends further into operational, and communication activities. Toward this, you would:

Team Communication:

• Establish and leverage seamless communication linkages across levels in the organisations including Advisory Services, Business Development, and Business Support Services, for best collaborations.
• Advise on the scope of work, realistic timescales, and the level of effort needed to deliver internal and external initiatives on time.

Team Support and Upskilling:

• Offer periodic training through our internal VfW Academy on design standards and train the VfW team on design and branding, ensuring alignment with VfW policy.
• Provide high-level documentation guidelines on design standards, and periodically update these.

What are the requirements for this role?

The ideal candidate is a proactive, solutions-driven individual, able to work efficiently and independently. We are looking for a highly organised and driven individual who is quick to adapt to changing realities and communicates effectively across the organisation.

The ideal candidate works efficiently against deliverable deadlines and is focused on high quality and timeliness. They are able to work in a fast-paced, dynamic team and consultancy environment, working independently as part of a remote international team.

They are an excellent written and spoken communicator in English, an innovative and creative designer and can work effectively with diverse stakeholders. Our team works best with people who interact positively, and who are results-based, entrepreneurial and client-centred.

Additionally, we require the following background and experience:

• 3 - 5 years of professional experience either in agency, in-house or working as a freelancer
• Proficiency in English is essential for this role, with Spanish proficiency highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of UX/UI principles
• Strong skills in Google Suite (Google Slides, Docs, Sites) and Canva.
• Proficiency in graphic design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and video editing software (e.g., Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro).
• Experience with CraftCMS or similar content management systems.
• Strong proficiency with Google Suite and familiarity with campaign management platforms such as Mailchimp.
• Demonstrated experience in creating and managing digital content, including social media and YouTube.
• Excellent visual communication skills, with a keen eye for detail.
• Exceptional written English communication skills with the ability to produce compelling written materials.
• Ability to work remotely and independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously with on-time delivery
• Higher level education in fine art, graphic design or related field

We also seek these attributes:

• Ability to stay highly organised and motivated, working as part of a remote international team, working independently with moderate guidance while focusing on results and collaboration
• Enjoys working with multiple team members across different levels in the organisation
• Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities and deadlines
• Excellent attention to detail, accuracy and strong time management skills
• Ideally experienced in working with consulting
• International experience - working in your own region, and across borders
• Client-centric orientation and understanding of how to manage multiple priorities in a consulting setting
• Uphold the principles of trust, equality of opportunities, transparency and collaboration
• Positive attitude and optimism about the role of small and growing businesses in generating positive social impact
• The ability to thrive in a matrix-based organisational structure; operating internationally as a distributed team across the globe

What Value for Women offers you

• A flexible remote working environment working remotely from home
• A competitive US$ daily consulting fee
• The opportunity to work on a dynamic and creative portfolio with a multi-cultural, globally diverse team creating positive social impact
• Professional development opportunities via the Value for Women Academy, professional development plans and more
• An opportunity to grow and work with globally diverse, high-profile clients

Diversity & Inclusion

It’s our mission to unleash potential and we know teams perform best when they are diverse and every team member feels they belong. It’s the unique contributions of all at Value for Women that drives our success and the meaningful work we do.

We are a diverse group of individuals with a wide range of backgrounds including gender, race, ethnicity, geography, cultures and beliefs, as well as experience and education, and our hiring practices aim to deepen that. Application success is based upon individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation/affectional preference, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship or disability.

We encourage applications from emerging market professionals who are from and live in the countries we work in (primarily Africa and Asia,) as well as individuals identifying as Black, Afro-descendant, and/ or Indigenous. However, we do not ask applicants to disclose this. We aim for the composition of our team to reflect the diverse nature of both the work we carry out and the world we live in and are striving to change.

Application process - our internal steps

Step 1: Submit your CV, cover letter and portfolio samples through our Online Application Form  before October 20th, 2024. If you encounter any problems when filling out your online application, please contact us at valueforwomen@v4w.org

Step 2: Shortlist. Our recruiting team reaches out if your profile is a match, and you will be invited to Interview #1, a video call interview with our People and Culture Lead.

Step 3: Interview #2. Successful candidates are asked for a 45-minute video call interview. This is a chance for you to ask us questions too.

Step 4: Final Interview! This is the final shortlist.

While we do our best to make this 4-step process quick, it can take up to 2 months to get to Step 4, depending on how many amazing applicants we receive. We appreciate your interest and patience. You can always reach out to ask about the status of your application at valueforwomen@v4w.org. While we do our best to offer feedback to unsuccessful candidates, this is not always possible due to the volume of applications we receive.