Communications Designer
The Role
The Communications
Designer will support the Director to deliver on the objectives of the
Co-Creation Team. You will, in coordination with the Director of Co-Creation,
the Global Programs Team, and country teams, work to guarantee customers
co-create all of Alight’s programming. As part graphic designer and part
visual storyteller, you will equip teams with tools for putting
co-creation into practice and craft and package beautiful and compelling
stories to share with the global team and beyond. You will bring design excellence and
inspiration to all projects.
Building a shared
organization takes time and intention. We will always be becoming Alight,
which means your work will evolve as well. For now, here’s how you could
anticipate spending your time:
Bringing Ideas, Stories
and Concepts to Life – 90%
This position is
responsible for working with teams and communities to bring voices,
stories and concepts to life. You will identify opportunities for design,
imagine new possibilities and bring those ideas to life through engaging visual
narratives.
Key Responsibilities
- Work
closely with the Co-Creation team and country teams to create a shared
definition of co-creation.
- Lead
in the development of tools and trainings to
unleash co-creation across the organization.
- Build
playbooks that showcase impact and allow teams to replicate
and scale.
- Create
compelling visual narratives that communicate user stories, strategic
solutions and bring visibility to the impact of the process and
services.
- Work
on projects that spread across print to interactive projects for
screens, devices, and space.
- Act
as a bridge to the engagement teams ensuring they are well
informed about co-creation in Alight.
- Work
alongside global support team to build co-creation into grants and
proposals.
- Contribute
to the design of new programs and support implementation.
- Participate
in crisis response, along with colleagues from across the organization, to
design and support emergent responses.
- Create assets
to support every aspect of implementation from concept to build out to
packaging.
Serve as critical member
of Global Programs Team – 10%
As a member of the Global
Programs Team, you will collaborate with this team to ensure co-creation and
discovery data is prepared and developed in a way that supports and informs the
strategic projects and priorities of the Global Programs Team.
Location
As a global organization,
Alight is building and has hubs throughout the world, including Minneapolis and
Nairobi with teams in Europe, New York, Atlanta, and based throughout 20+
countries where we operate. Note that the majority of our colleagues work in
Central and East African time zones and it is critical to be available during
some part of those workdays.
Hybrid, roving, and remote
work are all possible.
Travel
This position involves
regional and global travel and will likely be between 20% and 40% of your time,
depending on how you structure the work.
Qualifications
These are “must-haves”
when you join Alight:
Open heart and open
mind. You start by listening. You believe another person’s truth and it
changes you. It unlocks your way of thinking in that moment, it opens your
world.
Curiosity. You are
always learning. You ask why and why again. You know that change (big and
small) is constant, which means your curiosity to learn is matched with
adaptability to evolve.
Trust. You believe
that people do their best, are disciplined, and care about this as much as you
do. You take responsibility for your part and know how to step back and give
others the space to shine.
We’re looking for the
following technical competencies:
- Fluency
with Adobe Creative Suite, including InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop
- A
diverse portfolio, featuring with a range of mediums from print design and
presentations to iconography and illustration
- 5-7 years
of professional experience
- Strong
design fundamentals (color, form, type, layout) and the ability to
experiment
- Keen
attention to detail and execution in craft
- Experience
in web design and digital applications
- The
ability to thrive and multi-task in a highly energetic, fast-paced
environment
- Cross
cultural design experience
- A
high level of production experience (final production for print, web and
mobile) in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
- Extremely
organized and diplomatic. You have the ability to communicate effectively
when setting and managing deadlines and schedules.
- Experience
with human-centered design
- Flexible,
flexible, flexible: we respond to opportunity as it arises and
it rarely fits our schedule
