Senior Web Designer (Remote)

African Development Choices (ADC) is a UK-based Social Enterprise on a mission to reduce poverty by empowering communities to make more informed choices in the management of public resources.

ADC’s purpose is to enable communities to independently meet their needs for essential services, such as clean water and safe sanitation and improve lives in Africa.

At ADC we encourage a working culture of seeking and giving input, showing and taking initiative, and commitment to the organisation and its purpose.


Main Purpose of Job: Design and administer the ADC website

Division: Operations

Department: Marketing & Communications

Position Reports to: Head of Marketing & Communications

Position is Responsible for: N/A


Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design the ADC website in line with brand guidelines
• Make on-going changes and improvements to website design
• Collaborate with web developer to implement the designs
• Analyse and improve website performance 
• Manage user access and permissions on WordPress

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
Essential

• 3+ year of experience as a Web & Graphic Designer 
• Knowledge of WordPress, web design tools and technologies such as CSS, HTML
• Ability to follow brand guidelines to produce work in line with ADC’s brand and to follow web design best practices
• Knowledge of UX/UI design  
• Knowledge in designing responsive websites 
• Strong portfolio demonstrating previous work examples  
• High level of design ability and attention to detail 
• Available to volunteer at least 7-10 hours a week
• Ability to actively take initiative and help set things up in a start-up environment
• Ability to actively seek and give input in a collaborative team environment
• A committed team player with good communication skills.

Desirable

• Experience working in an early-stage startup and gone through a scaling phase 

• Passion for the start-up life and comfortable in a role with a little ambiguity 

What ADC offers you:

This is a volunteer, remote and unpaid position with the following benefits:

• Professional learning and career development opportunities
• An opportunity to build on your work experience within your profession
• An opportunity to be part of a diverse team representing different parts of the world that is helping to deliver systemic social change in Africa
• An opportunity to help shape a start-up social enterprise
• We provide work reference

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Here at African Development Choices, we celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our teams are made up of people from all over the world and we welcome all applications. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition, and you require any reasonable adjustments for your application with us, please let us know by contacting recruitmentatafricandevelopmentchoicesdotorg.