Senior Graphic Designer

Job Title: Senior Graphic Designer Department: Communications Location: Oakland, Washington D.C, or remote. Reports To: Creative Manager Supervises: N/A 
Context:  At the Sierra Club, we believe in the power of interdependence. Together, we remain committed to the fight for a healthy climate built on a foundation of environmental, racial, economic, and gender justice – a future where all people benefit from a healthy, thriving planet and a direct connection to nature. As the climate crisis and deeply entrenched systemic racism all fuel injustice, we will continue to fight for a bold, transformational agenda that recognizes the interconnectedness between our planet, our humanity, and our future. By recognizing that our destinies are tied, we continue to name that all things are fundamentally connected, and the overlap between ecology, race, gender, and representative government will move to either advance our collective humanity or to oppress it. Sierra Club has close to 800 staff across the country and a network of 64 local chapters that are led and fueled by thousands of volunteers. We are also proud to be a unionized employer, with three labor unions representing more than half of our employees.
Scope: The Senior Graphic Designer is responsible for creating, designing and maintaining the overall creative feel of the Sierra Club’s web assets and digital outreach materials. The Senior Graphic Designer participates in all front-end aspects of the Sierra Club’s Web properties across all campaigns and initiatives. The Designer serves as a primary design resource for the Communications team, providing graphic design, image processing, illustration, motion graphics, assistance with art direction, and related tasks. Works with the Digital team to design additional collateral for electronic distribution including social media, video, illustration and multimedia content, newsletters, email wrappers, blogs and publications and contributes to the design of print materials or other products as needed. Supports the production needs of the Club by preparing and transferring style frames and files Also serves as a staff photographer as needed.

Job activities include but are not limited to:

• Design Leadership. Serves as the lead designer working with Web Programmers to create, develop, and maintain visually compelling web properties for the organization. Provides graphic design, illustration, art direction, and other related tasks for Club’s web properties, mobile applications, digital and video content. Consults on and implements all upcoming major visual changes to the organization’s web properties. Produces web pages to satisfy organizational needs, including illustrations, image processing, layout, and overall design. Solicits, recommends and provides direction to outside design studios, freelance designers and programmers as needed. Plans, designs, and oversees the implementation of non-editorial design for various properties on-and offline, including but not limited to the marketing and advertising part of the magazine. 
• Creative Development. Participates in and leads departmental and/or cross-functional projects related to website technology, content, promotion, or visibility. Plans, designs, and implements other web-based and digital creative collateral including social media content, mobile applications, newsletters, email wrappers, and publications. Provides short-form copywriting for web, digital and visual assets as needed. Serves as an in-house photographer as needed.
• Systems and Processes. Works with Head of Creative Programming, Director of Brand and Strategic Communications and Creative Manager to develop and implement design standards and policies that govern the look and feel of the organization’s web sites on all supported platforms. Along with the Creative Manager, develops, manages and implements operational procedures to ensure integrity of the Club’s brand, campaign brands and overall web presence. 
• Supporting Staff and Volunteers. Provides technical design support to Club entities, staff, and volunteers. Oversees and participates in the training and ongoing education of staff and volunteers in the use and development of Web pages and sites, especially assistance with Web design and adherence to Club design policies. Educates these parties about successful use of cutting edge web and digital -design standards as a communications channel. Plans, develops, and implements design projects, working with Club staff and volunteers throughout the organization as appropriate. Creates designs for non web-based activist projects such as signs, posters, and other grassroots products. 


• Heavier seasonal workloads may occur as a result of project deadlines, staff absences and vacancies, and during peak activity periods. Occasional weekend and/or evening work required. Performs miscellaneous duties as directed.

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