Job Title: Graphic Designer

Department: Communications

Reports to: Head of Communications

Location: New York City (non-NYC area applications will also be considered)

Pay Range: $4,500 monthly retainer.

Hours/Week: 35 hours, consultant position (June - August 2024, with potential to extend)

Background: Repairers of the Breach, Inc is a nonprofit organization based in Goldsboro, North Carolina, that seeks to build a moral agenda that uplifts our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of our country. We organize, train, and work with a diverse group of poor and low wage people, activists, and faith leaders from every US state and the District of Columbia who are rebuilding, raising, and repairing the moral infrastructure of our county. Today, our movement is expanding nationally through our work on the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC). Repairers of the Breach, along with the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice, are the anchoring organizations of the PPC: A National Call for Moral Revival.

Job Summary: As the Graphic Designer, you’ll support a dedicated team of activists, organizers, and communications leaders to advance Repairers of the Breach and the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. We work and organize alongside the nation's over 135 million poor and low-wage communities, social advocates and faith leaders to advance a moral public policy agenda that includes universal healthcare, living wages, LGBTQ justice and equality, women’s rights, environmental justice, amongst other issues.

The Graphic Designer works closely with the digital team and will implement weekly and longer-term design projects. Weekly work includes creating original creative assets for social media, editorial projects and event marketing. Longer-term design projects include website redesigns as well as project and institutional branding projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Design original social media graphics, illustrations, infographics and other creative assets to support editorial projects.
• Implement weekly creative assets for social media, email, and other marketing campaigns.
• Design toolkits, landing pages, and other special projects.
• Expand on existing design direction and materials and improve on it.
• Maintain brand consistency throughout all design.
• Work with cross-functional teams of project managers, social justice organizers, and content experts to take ideas from direction to execution and ensure deadlines are met.
• Perform related work as required.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience developing social media graphics, creative assets, and/or website design for editorial.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) and other relevant design software.
• Ability to manage daily design projects and long-term projects efficiently.
• Bachelor's degree in graphic design, illustration, visual arts, web development or relevant field; or equivalent experience.
• An understanding and knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript and ability to implement website design updates is ideal, but not required.

How to apply:

This is a full-time consultant position (35 hours per/week) with a fixed monthly retainer of $4,500. We are committed to developing a diverse and talented team and encourage all qualified applicants to apply. A complete application includes a resume, brief cover letter (please describe your editorial experience), and selections from your portfolio of editorial design work. Complete applications can be emailed to jward@breachrepairers.org–indicate “Graphic Designer”–in the subject line.

Equal Opportunity

Repairers of the Breach is deeply committed to creating a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued but prioritized. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.