Junior Creative Specialist

The Junior Creative Specialist will play a crucial role in the design and execution of visual and written content across multiple platforms. This position requires a versatile individual who can seamlessly integrate graphic design with digital content strategies to enhance our brand’s online presence and engage effectively with our audience.

Key Responsibilities:
Graphic Design: Create visually appealing digital and print media graphic content, ensuring all materials adhere to brand guidelines.
Content Coordination: Develop and manage a content calendar and coordinate with different teams to ensure timely materials delivery.
Photo and Video Editing: Capture and edit visual content to support marketing campaigns and social media initiatives.
Email Marketing: Design and execute email campaigns to promote products, services, and content to a diverse audience; monitor performance metrics to optimize strategies.
Social Media Management: Manage the company’s social media profiles, plan and post content, and engage with followers to grow social media presence and engagement.

A successful Junior Creative Specialist will consistently exhibit:
Productive and Creative Work: Deliver marketing projects based on specific assignment parameters, as well as, create innovative and original materials in line with company initiatives.
Clear Communication and Strong Flexibility: Able to understand project scopes and work with evolving targets, offer feedback and ask questions where clarity is needed, and define reasonable completion timelines for project elements
Efficiency and Time Management: Meets project deadlines, works efficiently, and manages multiple projects
Problem-Solving Skills: Finds creative solutions to challenges, gets unstuck quickly
Collaborative attitude: Accepts feedback and multiple perspectives, offers design and creative recommendations while staying open to and working with team needs
Initiative and Engagement: Learns about our industry and uses those learnings to inform their creative output; is willing to step outside the box, and brings forward interesting marketing ideas for consideration

Qualifications:
– Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Marketing, Communications, or a related field.
– Proven experience in graphic design with a strong portfolio featuring digital and print assets.
Familiarity with and ability to work with WordPress for website updates
– Experience with photo and video editing software with Canva
– Familiarity with email marketing platforms like Mailchimp or Constant Contact.
– Strong understanding of social media management and content creation.
– Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proficiency in English.
– Ability to work independently in a remote setting and manage multiple projects simultaneously.