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Freelance Graphic + Visual Designer Remote (Contract, Hourly)

Freelance Graphic + Visual Designer Remote (Contract, Hourly)

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Freelance Graphic + Visual Remote (Contract, Hourly)

About the Education Design Lab

The Education Design Lab (Lab) is a national nonprofit that , tests, and implements unique education models and credentials that address the rapidly changing economy and emerging opportunities. The Lab demonstrates where technology, rigor, and design can improve opportunities for historically underinvested learners to achieve equitable futures.

The Lab is unlike other organizations in the nonprofit, education . We are boundary spanners and across disciplines and alongside schools, employers, entrepreneurs, government, foundations, nonprofits, and innovators. We are known for our work on the ground and have significant experience managing national and local learning cohorts, working with organizations such as The Lumina Foundation, the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, the Gates Foundation, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), Walmart, American Council on Education, and the ECMC Foundation. To learn more about the work we do and what we care about, visit www.eddesignlab.org, and follow on Twitter @eddesignlab. ​ ​ ​

About Your Role

We're seeking a visual designer to bring the work happening across the Lab to life in every way, supporting to evolve the Lab's and approach to storytelling and knowledge sharing. Although you will start with owning one project at a time, the ideal designer will come to work with the Lab in managing our day-to-day and long-term graphics needs. As a first assignment, we’ll ask that you format and design a forthcoming white paper that highlights learnings and for our BRIDGES Rural initiative. To get a sense of what this might look like, check out our latest ​ ​ publication “Walk in My Shoes.” ​

This is a contract position with varying hours that pays $22-30/hour, dependent on experience and the scope of the work you’ll take on. We are hoping to build a relationship and partnership with a designer that can grow with our team, and possibly come onboard full- or part-time.

The mission of the Lab is to center the voices, needs, and experiences of learners who have long been excluded from higher education and opportunities of learning in the redesign of new models, programs, and services. Thus, we deeply value the expertise of lived experience and strongly value and seek to invest in creatives that have shared lived experience with the learners we currently and hope to work with, including folks of color, people from working class and low-income backgrounds, those who are immigrants or children of immigrants to the US, those whose first language isn’t English, those living with disabilities, trans and queer individuals, and others from communities who have been underinvested in. It is critical that the faces, voices, and perspectives of the learners and partners we currently and hope to work with are made visible through our visual work.

Your Responsibilities

Varying potential responsibilities are outlined below. As a first assignment, we’ll ask that you format and design a forthcoming white paper that highlights learnings and research for our BRIDGES Rural initiative. To get a sense of what this might look like, check out our latest ​ publication “Walk in My Shoes.” ​

● Designing materials big and small: Work within the Lab’s brand guidelines to design social ​ media graphics, slide decks, one-pagers and project overviews, publications and reports, concept graphics, and data visualizations. ● Support in evolving the Lab’s current approach to visual design: Rethinking existing ​ templates and assets, developing new templates and resources for the team and partners, and responding to new ways in which we collaborate through our work (how we show up virtually versus in-person). ● Working within + furthering brand and style guidelines: Deliver novel visual solutions ​ that support larger organizational goals related to the Lab brand. Build out and evolve the Lab’s existing style guide to be a comprehensive asset for the team and our partners. ● Learning new tools for collaboration and developing new processes: Understand the ​ needs of the Lab team and our wide array of partners, and design the form and processes of your work accordingly. ● Not expected, but a possibility: website maintenance: Manage all aspects of the Lab’s ​ website including building new pages and implementing updates, managing content and developing ideas for how the Lab’s website can best serve our team and our work, user requests, staff and project needs.

Qualifications We’re Looking for

We do not require a college degree for this role, and instead are interested in the skills and perspective you bring. If you feel passionate about our efforts and believe that you have the skills to succeed in this role, we want to hear from you!

● Experience working with or at a nonprofit, policy organization, or government agency on ● Experience designing across multiple mediums that may include web, print, publication, data, , product, video and motion ● Strong people skills and written and verbal skills, including the ability to communicate complicated ideas in simple terms ● Shared lived experience with the learners we work with ● Attention to detail aka ability and comfort completing final work as if you are the last person to touch it ● Project management skills aka ability to manage tasks and workflow on your own with direction from a project manager

The following are additional skills and capabilities we are interested in, but not required for this role. If you have experience with any of the below, please include reflective artifacts in your portfolio.

● Illustration skills. ● Experience with video editing, video-based storytelling, or animation. ● UX/UI skills to lead builds on new digital tools and product concepts. ● Experience with WordPress or similar content management systems. ● Familiarity and ability to code with HTML and CSS.

Application Instructions To apply, please submit a short cover letter, portfolio, and resume to [email protected] with ​ ​ the subject line “Freelance Visual Designer @ the Lab” by March 25, 2021.

Equal Opportunity Employer For this role we are encouraging Black people, Latinx people, indigenous people, people of color, first generation graduates, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQIA community, veterans and people with experience with community colleges to apply for this role. The Education Design Lab is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.