The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an
international non-profit, non - governmental organization that
carries out high quality, policy relevant research on population, health and
education issues facing sub-Saharan Africa.
The Center seeks to recruit a Web designer with modern web
development and graphic design skills.
If you have a good sense of humor and love working with data,
visual effects and creating state of the art websites and web tools and are
interested in development related issues, this is the job for you.
Responsibilities
- Designing,
developing and managing APHRC’s websites
- Revitalize
the information architecture and link knowledge products to the Center’s
program areas.
- Develop
site content and graphics by coordinating with copywriters and graphic
artists; designing images, icons, banners, audio enhancements, etc.
- Develop
new ways to visualize and showcase our data focusing on new innovations in
online communication (such as infographics, interactive web tools,
blogging, and social media) to improve content presentation, access, use
and feedback.
- Code
graphic design projects into PHP files (such as the e-newsletter, new web
blast templates, etc.)
- Manage
links that enable users to share documents with friends and colleagues.
- Create
and manage an easy-to-use content management system for the website.
- Develop
friendly online fundraising options and work with the fundraising team to
develop new ways to improve this functionality.
- Monitor
performance and results, identifying and evaluating improvement options,
introducing new technology and maintaining links.
- Provide
weekly website analytics by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data
and trends and then optimize and generate ideas to increase traffic
through the site.
- Implement
and maintain website enhancements, security/privacy policies, user
accounts, access rights, passwords, etc.
- Recommend
and apply user experience approaches based upon the latest interactive
trends and best practices in the industry.
Qualifications
- Degree
in graphic design, IT or a related discipline. Additional communications
qualifications will be an added advantage.
- At
least 3 years relevant experience.
- Programming
language aptitude (particularly web design languages).
- Proven
excellent graphic design and copy-writing skills
- Demonstrated
experience in creating info-graphics and or interactive web data
visualizations.
- Multimedia
skills such as podcast or webcast editing, video editing are a plus.
Skills: Web Graphic Design, Web Savvy, Planning, Web User Interface
Design, Web Programming Skills, Illustration Tools, Multimedia Content
Development, Understanding Browser Capabilities, Internet Presence, Excellent
communications skills, and Team work.
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply enclosing a
detailed CV, quoting current and expected salary and providing contact details
of three referees to the address below by 11 February, 2013.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Please indicate the position you are applying for on the
envelope or on the subject line for those applying by email: jobs@aphrc.org.
The Human Resources Manager
African Population and Health Research Center
P.O. Box 10787-00100 GPO,
African Population and Health Research Center
P.O. Box 10787-00100 GPO,
Nairobi
Website: www.aphrc.org