Vacancy title:
Graphic Designer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Design, Category: Art, Fashion & Design]

Jobs at:
UBONGO

Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, March 30 2025

Duty Station:
Dar es salaam | Dar es Salaam | Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, March 27 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

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, mock-up 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.

PREFERRED:

• At least 3 years’ experience in visual content, graphic design, advertising and/or creative related field
• Educational Background required Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communications, fine arts or related discipline
• Should be ready to start in as soon as possible
• Advanced experience with Photoshop and Illustrator
• Experience with motion design and animation (not required but preferred)
• Experience with the social networking space, and digital and mobile formats
• Experience with concept creation, style frame creation and storyboarding

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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