Arts Director-managing online artists and illustrators team creating eBook Stories and other educational resources
Lead the creative direction for children's educational eBooks and resources
Overview
Lead the creative direction for children's educational eBooks and resources
You have:
- Demonstrable design experience in illustrated children's publishing.
- Management experience for a growing team of illustrators and artists.
- Proficiency in Adobe InDesign, XD, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
- Access to visual arts portfolio demonstrating your design work.
- Ability to create 2D/3D animated videos related to educational materials.
- Exemplary communication skills are essential for collaborating with your team.
Contract
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At ASASS non profit, is looking for a talented and experienced Art Director for 9 weeks ,20+hours per week. You will be instrumental in helping to conceive and develop new educational ebooks stories for children, fiction, non-fiction and activity book ideas, advising on the choice of artists, designers and illustrators, sourcing new talent, creating design concepts, scripts, illustrations, advance material and layouts as appropriate and shaping the visual look and feel of the children’s list. Will give you access to our many news stories and other materials written by over 200 authors. You will share tasks to your online illustrator and artists’ team, follow up ,monitor illustration works and make sure you and them illustrate, create eBooks of stories, cover, graphic newsletter, reports and various presentations, produce 2D/3D animated videos related to books, worksheets, etc for our new Digital Library of interactive learning ressources to fundraise for ASASS non-Profit.
- Art and design
Web and graphic design
Our Burundian Communities do not have public library. Public Private Schools use old learning materials with old books. There are also no enough libraries. Goal is to illustrate and manage team of other illustrators of eBooks for children’s education and other educational digital resources-Books, cover, characters, 3D animated videos, worksheets, newsletter, reports and various illustrated presentations, etc to create digital library of interactive learning materials for all. More than 10,000 Books, 3D animated Videos, worksheets, teacher manuals, students manuals will be produced for Burundi Public Private Partner Organisations and Schools (PPPOS).
Volunteers: 5 needed
11-20 hours per week / 9 weeks
You have demonstrable design experience in illustrated children's publishing, story books, any educational ressources by sharing link to your visual arts. Demonstrate management experience- We’ll grow team to over 500 online illustrators, stories authors, staff and artists. Demonstrate Graphic or illustration technologies capacity- be skilled in Adobe InDesign, XD, Photoshop and Illustrator. You’ll be creative and innovative with unique visual flair. You will have exemplary communication skills.
Burundi
- English, French
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe a project where you led a team of illustrators? | The interviewer wants to gauge your management skills and ability to collaborate with creative professionals. | Discuss your approach to guiding and coordinating a successful team effort, highlighting specific challenges and solutions. |
| What has been your most successful design project, and why? | This question assesses your creative capabilities and what you consider success in your work. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you handle constructive criticism from team members or management? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What strategies do you use to keep your team motivated? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you approach brainstorming sessions for new educational content or resources? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |