Junior Art Director

Position Title: Manager, Brand Creative (Junior Art Director)

Department: Marketing and Communications

Location: Remote in CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, NC, NJ, NY, OR, PA, Puerto Rico, TN, TX, VA, or WA

Reports to: Director, Marketing and Brand Strategy

Number of Direct Reports : 0

Assignment Type: Full-time, Exempt

Compensation : $69,760 to $76,600

Application Requirements: Resume; completed application questions

About Americares:

Global Health Starts with YOU!

Americares is a global health and disaster relief organization that helps people and communities around the world access health in times of disaster and every day. Each year, Americares reaches 85 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. For more information, visit americares.org.

Americares Values:

We create global community, treating people as they want to be treated.

We respond effectively and responsibly, putting plans into practice.

We embed ethics and equity in our work and workplace.

We are better together; partnership is at our core.

We ask and listen, to create sustainable solutions for a healthier tomorrow.

We commit to quality, growing and improving to ensure individuals and communities thrive.

About the Position:

The Manager, Brand Creative will support the Director, Marketing and Brand Strategy in developing creative concepts and producing designed assets to elevate the Americares public profile. This role will design print and digital assets, develop creative materials and translate brand/organizational vision into creative across campaigns and collateral. This role operates at the intersection of hands-on execution and creative concepting, taking concepts from project request to delivery with precision and a strong sense of craft.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive work from conception to final delivery while maintaining high creative standards and bridging high-level creative vision and daily execution
• Collaborate with team leads to set the design for projects across channels, generating and refining design concepts and incorporating feedback
• Design high-quality print and digital assets that resonate with a wide range of audiences and advance organizational goals across digital and print mediums, including but not limited to:
  • Digital campaign assets (paid social, paid display advertising, digital OOH)
  • Print materials (brochures, ads, reports, signage, print OOH)
  • Event branding, invitations and branded promotional materials
  • Internal and executive presentations
  • Programmatic presentations and infographics for partner outreach
• Participate in rapid-response design efforts, producing timely and effective visual assets in response to urgent organizational or emergency response needs
• Translate complex information into accessible graphics, reports and informational material
• Actively model and contribute to Americares values, work culture and mission.
• Engage in and contribute to team spaces with openness, global competencies, and a growth mindset
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Key Outcomes:

In the first 90 days:

• Learn and live Americares values.
• Complete all required new-hire onboarding trainings.
• Understand Americares mission, vision, purpose, structure and key programs.
• Begin establishing relationships within and outside of Marketing and Communications.
• Demonstrate a collaborative and proactive approach by actively engaging with other teams and colleagues, making contributions and providing support in achieving Marketing and Communications and Americares objectives.
• Understand Americares brand guidelines, style guide, visual identity, key assets (PPT template, at-a-glance, etc.) and messaging document.
• Understand Marketing and Communications project management systems, including Asana and project workflows.
• Begin handling routine design requests like resizing images and adjusting layouts.

In the first 6 months:

• Participate in and bring visual concepts to project brainstorms.
• Refine and update key marketing and communications assets and outreach materials.
• Execute foundational design work, including templates, decks and programmatic outreach materials.
• Work with Brand Marketing team to incorporate client feedback and execute revisions.
• Develop Canva templates for key assets.

In the first year:

• Explore opportunities to elevate the visual quality of all outward-facing materials, expand Americares visual brand and strengthen brand recognition and credibility.
• Be able to develop event visual identities and design systems, as well as Americares sub-brands.
• Adapt agency-developed key campaign art for a wide variety of channels to prepare for brand marketing campaign launch.
• Regularly design high-quality print and digital assets that resonate with a wide range of audiences and advance organizational goals across digital and print mediums.
• Be able to translate complex programmatic data into infographics, reports and mass-market materials.
• Be able to produce emergency response graphics on a quick timeline.

Competencies required for the role include:

• Mastery of fundamental graphic design skills, concepts and file production
• Proficiency in visual storytelling, including translating marketing briefs into compelling, brand-aligned visual narratives
• Ability to conceptualize, including contributing innovative ideas during brainstorming sessions
• Proficiency in industry-standard tools like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Canva
• Branding and visual identity knowledge, including the capacity to translate Americares strategic goals into consistent brand elements, including logos, color palettes and typography
• Receptivity to feedback, including the ability to incorporate critiques from Marketing team members and/or clients and quickly iterate on designs
• Time management, including the ability to juggle multiple projects, meet tight deadlines, and prioritize tasks effectively

These competencies are preferred but not required for the role:

• Fluency in languages that are spoken in at least one of our core locations (India, Philippines, Tanzania, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Colombia, etc.), in addition to English
• Experience working with global teams, including producing marketing materials in many languages
• Experience working at or with nonprofits
• Understanding of the disaster-relief and global health (I)NGO sectors

Additionally, our core competencies as an organization are:

• Ownership and results
• Communication
• Problem solving
• Equity and inclusion
• Teamwork and conflict resolution
• Leadership
• Prioritization
• Management
• Strategy and planning
• Decision making

Recruitment process for this role:

• Completed application and resume
• Virtual interview with People and Talent (1 hour)
• Competency Exercise
• Virtual Interview with Hiring Manager (1 hour)
• Panel Interview internal stakeholders (1 hour)
• Offer
• Background checks and onboarding