Vacancy: Creative Designer
Job Description
Adaptable and endlessly hungry for
new challenges.
You are detail oriented,
self-motivated, and can communicate across disciplines with ease.
Requirements:
- Up to 1 year of design experience or newly
graduated, preferably in interactive/digital.
- A deep desire to experiment and learn from
others.
Work Activities
- Meeting clients or account managers to discuss
the business objectives and requirements of the job;
- Interpreting the client's business needs and
developing a concept to suit their purpose;
- Estimating the time required to complete the
work and providing quotes for clients;
- Developing design briefs by gathering
information and data through research;
- Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and
concepts;
- Using innovation to redefine a design brief
within the constraints of cost and time;
- Presenting finalised ideas and concepts to
clients or account managers;
- Working with a wide range of media, including
photography and computer-aided design (cad);
- Proofreading to produce accurate and
high-quality work;
- Contributing ideas and design artwork to the
overall brief;
- Demonstrating illustrative skills with rough
sketches;
- Working on layouts and artworking pages ready
for print;
- Keeping abreast of emerging technologies in
new media, particularly design programs such as indesign, quarkxpress,
freehand, illustrator, photoshop, 3ds max, acrobat, director, dreamweaver
and flash;
- Developing interactive design;
- Commissioning illustrators and photographers;
- Working as part of a team with printers,
copywriters, photographers, stylists, illustrators, other designers,
account executives, web developers and marketing specialists.
Skills:
- Photoshop, illustrator, flash, after effects
- Design, web, user interface.
- Equal parts confidence and humility within our
collaborative teams.
- An unflappable sense of calm in the face of an
intense, creative and fast-paced environment.
Vacancies: Web Developers
We are searching for outstanding web
developers to be responsible for developing meaningful, reusable Web-based
tools.
Our web developers work closely with
our project managers, strategists and design team members to develop specifications
and make recommendations on the use of new and emerging technologies.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Project Managers and other
members of the Development Team to both develop detailed specification
documents with clear project deliverables and timelines, and to ensure
timely completion of deliverables.
- Produce project estimates during sales
process, including expertise required, total number of people required,
total number of development hours required, etc.
- Attend client meetings during the sales
process and during development.
- Work with clients and Project Managers to
build and refine graphic designs for websites. Must have strong skills in
Photoshop, Fireworks, or equivalent application(s).
- Convert raw images and layouts from a graphic
designer into CSS/XHTML themes.
- Determine appropriate architecture, and other
technical solutions, and make relevant recommendations to clients.
- Communicate to the Project Manager with
efficiency and accuracy any progress and/or delays.
- Engage in outside-the-box thinking to provide
high value-of-service to clients.
- Alert colleagues to emerging technologies or
applications and the opportunities to integrate them into operations and
activities.
- Be actively involved in and contribute
regularly to the development community of the CMS of your choice.
Required Skills
- 2 years minimum experience with HTML5/XHTML
and CSS
- 2 years minimum Web programming experience,
including PHP, ASP or JSP
- 1 year minimum experience working with
relational database systems such as MySQL, MSSQL or Oracle and a good
working knowledge of SQL
- Development experience using extensible web
authoring tools
- Experience developing and implementing open
source software projects
- Self-starter with strong self-management
skills
- Ability to organize and manage multiple
priorities
Vacancy: Copywriter / Social Media Coordinator
The Copywriter / Social Media
Coordinator will write, review and edit marketing material and coordinate
social media activities for the organization.
This role will work collaboratively
with staff from across the organization to promote their goals and messages
while maintaining and aligning with corporate message and image.
This person will play a pivotal role
in executing and refining Kehl credibility and build communities to create
integrated marketing campaigns ensuring consistency in voice and brand.
Essential Job Duties:
Essential Job Duties:
- Understand the goal, audience, and message of
a campaign and create copy to suit. Write advertising copy for use by
publication or broadcast media to promote sale of goods and services.
- Research, write, edit and proof all levels of
copy included headlines and body copy, for all online, offline, external
and internal needs.
- Build and implement social media programs that
ensure appropriate messaging is executed online, to support corporate
goals, incorporating Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Slideshare,
Google+, etc.
- Monitor social media groups, trends, tools,
and applications and recommend actions/next steps.
- Work closely with colleagues across the
organization to develop and post content to social networking sites.
- Regularly report insights gained from social
media monitoring to internal and external stakeholders.
- Monitor and engage in brand related online
conversations.
- Monitor the company's social media performance
usage reports and tracking search engine results.
- Use creative thinking and initiative to
analyze site performance metircs and make recommendations on content, site
design or features to improve effectiveness of web content and/or
applications.
- Respond to social media inquiries about online
activities in a timely and courteous fashion.
- Provide support to other team members on
online promotions (such as Hubspot/Wordpress, Google, AdWords campaigns
and email marketing).
Job Requirements:
- Excellent written and verbal communication
skills
- Technical knowledge and understanding of
social media platforms, metrics and tracking
- Project management and organization skills
- Learns quickly and able to change in fast
paced environment
- Ability to handle the pressure of meeting
tight deadlines
- Minimum 2 years related professional
experience
- BS degree in Journalism, PR, Communications,
IT or related field
- Web publishing experience
- Experience managing communications through
website planning, management and production
- Life science or clinical diagnostic experience
preferred
- Minimum 2 years experience as a copywriter or
social media coordinator
- 90% onsite, 10% travel
When applying:
Please include a cover letter, resume
and at minimum a link to your personal URL/portfolio.
We’ll accept .PDF portfolios in of
links or online samples of your work, but please submit these as a download
rather than an attachment.
Send to jobs@kehldesign.com