Volunteer Graphic designer

  • Part-time

Company Description

The African Library Project changes lives book by book by starting libraries in rural Africa.  Our grassroots approach mobilizes U.S. volunteers, young and old, to organize book drives and ship books to a partner library in Africa.  Our method makes a concrete and personal difference for children on both continents.

 

We work with our African partners to create small sustainable libraries in Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Swaziland, and we help Americans learn more about Africa. Our model provides many benefits for the U.S., e.g., leadership opportunities for young Americans, recycling of books, and many books not suitable for Africa are donated to American organizations. Our model is scalable and, while already making a significant difference, it has the potential to do much more.

 

We have made great strides in a short time. We have helped develop over 1165 libraries in 8 years!

Job Description

ALP seeks a volunteer graphic designer (time commitment: about an hour a month).  We need help in the following areas:

-Provide graphic design and layout support for the ALP newsletter, website, social media and other marketing efforts
-Plan design and layout concepts based on project requirements
-Illustrate concepts by designing layout of art and copy regarding arrangement, size, type size and style, and related aesthetic concepts
-Prepare finished copy and art 


Qualifications

The ideal person would have:

-Experience in digital and print images and layout
-Experience with ConstantContact
-Software: Adobe CS, Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver (or alternative Editor), Illustrator, In Design or similar
-A passion for helping others and creating beautiful, attractive artwork that helps us promote our global literacy mission

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.