Overview
Job Title: Graphics Designer and Communications Officer
Work location: Dar es Salaam
Answers to (Reports to): Influencing, Communications and Advocacy Manager
Plan International
The Organization:
The Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian group that promotes children’s rights and gender equality for females. We believe in every child’s power and potential, but we are aware that poverty, violence, exclusion, and discrimination sometimes undermine this. Girls are especially affected.
Working with children, youth, supporters, and partners, we seek for a just world by addressing the core causes of the issues that girls and vulnerable children confront. We protect children’s rights from birth to adulthood, and we help children prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. Our reach, expertise, and understanding enable us to drive improvements in practice and policy at the local, national, and global levels.
For more than 85 years, we have worked with other dedicated optimists to improve the lives of all children in over 80 nations.
We will not stop until everyone is equal.
The Role Purpose:
The Plan International is looking for a competent communications and graphic designer that can translate concepts and ideas into visual representations for print and electronic media. The ideal candidate will have extensive understanding of contemporary design software and be proficient in all stages of the design process, from concept to final product. Working with many teams across PIT, the communications and graphic designer should be able to transform written or spoken ideas into a design that connects. The ideal candidate will be well-versed in branding and marketing principles, with the ability to select and apply the best style and layout for a variety of projects. This candidate should be capable of comprehending project requirements and turning them into visually appealing designs. Furthermore, exceptional photography skills are required, as she or he will be responsible for capturing high-quality photos that improve and support the overall communications plan. This position involves creativity, attention to detail, and the ability to adapt to new themes and concepts while keeping brand consistency across all materials.
Dimensions of the role:
- To work on a variety of projects and media, using multiple software programs to visualize and create new graphic designs that fit the organization’s objectives.
- To obtain feedback from the supervisor to ensure that designs adhere to corporate standards and brand expectations, and that ideas are expressed accurately.
- To work individually and collaboratively with the communications team to accomplish deadlines.
- The schedule project implementation based on workload, which may comprise five or more concurrent requests.
- To examine existing procedures, identify problems, and develop remedies to enhance design capabilities.
- To update and manage internal databases for design, photography, and video.
- To collaborate, brainstorm, and strategize with many teams on a variety of products, including web pages, presentations, signs, internal communications, newsletters, and campaign materials.
- To translate strategic direction into high-quality design while adhering to an established brand identity.
- Create concepts by hand or with software, and then implement original material by choosing the best use of color, text, font style, imagery, and layout.
- To manage the design and uploading of all project materials using best practices for a content management system.
- Design and implement specific classes using trend intelligence and knowledge.
- To capture high-quality photographs at events and campaigns that reflect the organization’s beliefs.
- Stay updated about evolving communication and development trends and techniques. You will investigate and apply novel communication strategies and techniques to increase the effect of Plan International Tanzania’s work.
Plan International’s core values are equality, diversity, and inclusion.
We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, providing equitable opportunities to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and motherhood, race, religion or belief, gender, or sexual orientation.
The Plan International is built on an inclusive culture, and we strive to build a workplace climate in which every team, office, and country is full of varied individuals, opinions, and ideas.
We cultivate an organizational culture that values our dedication to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights, and inclusion.
The Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many risks, it is our responsibility as an organization to do everything we can to keep them safe. This means that we have specific responsibilities to the children with whom we come into contact, and we must not contribute in any manner to injuring or endangering children.
A variety of pre-employment checks will be carried out in accordance with Plan International’s Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In accordance with this program, we will require information from applicants’ former employers regarding any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment while employed, as well as instances under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant certifies that they understand the recruitment procedures.
The Plan International will never send unsolicited emails asking payment from candidates.
The closing date: March 31, 2025.
