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Graphic Designer at UBONGO 

Organization Summary:

UBONGO is Africa’s leading producer of kids’ edutainment. As a non-profit social enterprise, we create fun, localized, and multi-platform educational content that helps kids learn, and leverage their learning to change their lives. Ubongo reaches over 27 million kids across Africa through accessible technologies like TV, radio, and mobile phones. Our show’s Ubongo Kids and Akili and Me currently air in 23 countries across Africa, in Swahili, English, French, Kinyarwanda, Kikuyu, Luo, Yoruba, Hausa, Chichewa, and Juba Arabic.

Job Position:

We are looking for an experienced graphic designerwith excellent graphic design and illustration skills to join our multi-country Marketing and Communications Team. You will work collaboratively with our teams in Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, Nigeria, and the US to create content pieces that help build awareness and generate demand for Ubongo’s products and services across Africa and globally. The ideal candidate must be excellent at communicating ideas visually that inspire, inform, and captivate our audience while inline with our brand’s identity , and embody our fun, child-like, innovative and inspiring brand personality .

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Campaigns:
• Work directly with campaign managers to develop visual concepts for marketing campaigns.
• Create and evaluate the layout and visuals for every campaign, taking into account the Ubongo brand consistency while choosing fonts, images, readability, and reader demands.
• Support with design of communication and marketing campaigns targeted at our B2C and B2B audience Including:
• Graphics that support Akili and Me season 5 campaign activities
• Graphics to promote playroom app campaign
• Graphics to support Ubongo annual roadshows
• Brand guidelines and assets:
• Collaborate with the campaign manager in ensuring that all branding guidelines, templates, and materials are current, obtainable, and consistent with the brand.
• Ensure that Akili and Me, Nuzo and Namia, Ubongo Kids, Playroom brand assets and resources for brand manuals, canvas, and Google Drive are evaluated and updated on a quarterly basis
• Merchandise: Create and mockup designs for merchandise for internal and external use.
• Liaise with external printers/ designers or production teams to ensure deadlines are met and material is printed or presented to the highest quality.
• 20 new merchandise designs for online stores
• Illustrations: Collaborate closely with the external team to produce original illustrations of characters, objects, graphic components, and backdrops for any of the Ubongo brands.
• Lead in briefing external design team and review illustrations
• Design graphic components that be reused in different layouts
• 10 new character poses
• Photos: Collaborate with the audio and video producer to select, mockup and upload photos that feature a character relevant to the scene.
• Design 100 new images with cartoons monthly
• Print materials: Work with the education team and design educational posters for distribution.
• Design 3-4 A3 posters showing;
• Syllables, simple word, simple sentences, simple stories to measure comprehension
• sounds of items or animals kwa upande wa kusoma
• Numeracy skills- counting up to 1000 by using items, simple addition- one to three digits, simple subtraction one to three digits, c, color and shapes.
• Presentations and infographics: Work with senior strategic comms manager to design infographics and presentations
• 12 B2B infographics
• 2025 Annual report design
• Branding for events: Work with senior strategic comms manager to design branding for upcoming stakeholder events
• Design branding for 2-6 stakeholder events held in key markets in Q2

REQUIREMENT:

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE and QUALIFICATIONS

ESSENTIALS:

• Broad knowledge of design principles and experience as a graphic designer with evidence of work.
• Excellent graphic design skills, with the ability to refine designs with illustration software in accordance with our brand.
• Ability to digitally illustrate drawings from scratch isn’t a requirement but definitely a BONUS.
• Great time management and are a skilled task juggler. There is a LOT going on at Ubongo, and your job is to keep up with the demands!
• Great written and oral communication skills in English and Kiswahili
• Tech-savvy and able to quickly figure out new software and systems. We use a huge range of different cloud-based programs to collaborate and streamline our work, including Slack, G Suite, Creative Cloud, Asana and others.
• Good listening skills and can deal with ambiguity and are able to figure things out for yourself.
• The ability to work independently and to think on your feet.
• Experience creating content for a non-profit company and/or social cause is a plus!
• A love for kids! They’re why we do what we do. Our kids’ music and videos will become part of your life (and constantly stuck in your head).
• Persistence! We have a big goal and have to get things done with limited resources.
• Courage, and are willing to speak up for what’s right, when you see wrong, or when you think there might be a better way.
• ‘UTU’ (a Swahili word for humanity). This implies that you are honest, trustworthy, transparent and conscientious.

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