Description

The core job purpose involves taking direct charge of creating comprehensive digital or print designs and crafting illustrative, graphic, and visual materials intended for exhibition displays, department or school publications, scholarly content, professional journals, and various social media platforms. Specialist, Graphic Design role requires close cooperation with the creative team, department head, and, if applicable, contributing authors to bring these projects to fruition and produce the final product.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates all administrative aspects of production, including preparing final designs for presentation, checking and approving color, copy, text format separations, and scaling images for print production. Ensures that all parties are informed of and meet deadlines;
• Prepares layouts, designs, artwork and formats for use in digital and /or publication design;
• Layout and scale photos, marking them for proper screen values for print reproduction;
• Designs, layouts, and produces artwork such as graphs, maps, charts, posters, signs, books, report and other visuals;
• Works with others, such as printers, programmers, developers or other technicians, to complete the final product;
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed;
• May handle copyright, reprint, and permission processes;
• May provide information to faculty, students and staff regarding design of publication;
• Works with a wide range of media, including photography and computer-aided design; collaborates with a photographer;
• Uses computer software to execute designs;
• Proofreads to produce accurate and high-quality work;
• Keeps abreast of emerging technologies in new media (particularly design programs such as Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, XD etc);
• Develops interactive design for the website;
• Performs other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Requirements

• University Degree or a related field of study;
• A minimum of 2 years of print and digital design experience;
• Excellent knowledge of common industry applications (i.e., Adobe CC suite (Mac preferable), especially Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Lightroom (XD is and advantage);
• Comfortable working on trilingual design projects (Azerbaijani, English and Russian);
• Strong working knowledge of printing, publishing and/or graphics art procedures, related computer software and user interface-based technologies;
• Fluency for the tools and practice of digital design, social media platforms and tools;
• Ability to work well under pressure and multiple deadlines;
• Must be able to work both independently and collaboratively;
• Proficiency in photography is an advantage;
• Professional online portfolio is required (behance.com is preferable).

Please follow the link to apply for this position: https://www.ada.edu.az/apply-to-job

The deadline for application is November 6, 2023.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further recruitment processes.

ADA University offers a competitive remuneration package and attractive conditions of employment of a high standard. For more information about ADA University, please visit www.ada.edu.az.