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Introducing Zinc Network

Zinc Network is an ISO certified business dedicated to meaningful, measurable change. Zinc conceptualizes and creates programs, interventions, and strategic communications campaigns around some of the world’s most complex problems – from disinformation to extremism, media capture to authoritarianism. We are headquartered in London with offices in Washington, D.C., Tbilisi, and Warsaw with 80+ team members from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds. Zinc works with a broad range of governmental, NGO, and private sector clients, including the UK Home Office (HO); the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO); the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the U.S. Department of State (DOS); UN agencies and missions; and foundations.

Description

Introducing Zinc Network

Zinc Network is an ISO certified business dedicated to meaningful, measurable change. Zinc conceptualizes and creates programs, interventions, and strategic communications campaigns around some of the world’s most complex problems – from disinformation to extremism, media capture to authoritarianism. We are headquartered in London with offices in Washington, D.C., Tbilisi, and Warsaw with 80+ team members from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds. Zinc works with a broad range of governmental, NGO, and private sector clients, including the UK Home Office (HO); the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO); the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the U.S. Department of State (DOS); UN agencies and missions; and foundations.

About The Role

Zinc Network is seeking freelance designers to join its talent pool. After approval to join the pool, you will be one of our go-to designers when we have relevant briefs on our exciting social-change projects around the world. Working to our Director of Content, you will create stunning visual concepts and designs for our campaigns and projects, helping to ensure that our partners’ messages land with maximum visual impact.

Our campaigns require designers with a strong ability to design for social-first digital campaigns and platforms, as well as OOH, print, and video. We are looking for designers who are able to turn their hand to a variety of different styles, from hard-hitting current affairs campaigns to youth-focused content for Gen Z. We need midweight or senior designers who can create campaign brands from scratch, as well as more junior designers who can create assets within existing brand frameworks.

You will work closely with our production, strategy, digital, operations, and project management teams to ensure smooth and timely delivery of all assets.

You will need to speak fluent English. Experience of working with international clients is highly desirable.

You will be able to take a brief and turn it into compelling visual ideas, working across different social platforms and formats. You will be able to create these in a range of different styles for a variety of different audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Generating innovative design concepts and selling them both internally and externally with our clients and partners
• Communicating design ideas effectively
• Helping develop new campaign concepts and brands
• Maintaining high standards and ensuring only the best work is presented and implemented
• Work with our partners and clients to devise and deliver compelling content ideas in line with their needs
• Ensure assets are delivered to a high quality and on time
• Design (via translation) in a number of unfamiliar languages and scripts, and ensure our content is relevant to different global cultural and political contexts
• Ensure attention to detail in presentation of work
• Participate in internal and client reviews, communicating creative vision and proposals effectively
• Take feedback well and be prepared to revise your work in order to meet the needs of our clients, partners and internal stakeholders
  
  

• Fluent written and spoken English
• Experience of working with international clients is highly desirable
• Excellent understanding of the design needs of different social media platforms and audiences
• Several years’ experience working as a designer
• Experience of creating motion graphics is a plus
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Positive and flexible ‘can-do’ attitude and willingness to solve problems
• Ability to get on well with the team
  
  

• Disclose any previous disciplinary action against them resulting from a substantiated safeguarding (including any breaches involving trafficking- related activities) or workplace investigation.
• Undergo background checks including employment verification, sexual offender registry (as available), identity confirmation, and anti-terrorism vetting.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Civic and Social Organizations

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