Senior Creative Specialist

The expected salary range for this position is $90,070.00 - $112,580.00. Employees in specific high cost of labor locations in the United States (such as San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA) may qualify for a geographic differential. Compassion International is not responsible for third parties who omit this information when copying and re-posting job openings.

Overview

As a Senior Design Specialist, you will lead Compassion’s visual brand implementation and expression for the USA market. You will partner with and engage with designers across marketing to ensure consistency across print and digital media. In this role, you will lead our visual go-to-market strategy, guide complex creative projects, grow talent within our team of designers, and solve challenging visual design problems. You will also implement a test-and-learn approach to optimize design efforts while collaborating closely with internal teams, increasing our effectiveness and elevating our presence in market. As a key leader, you will coach and oversee other specialists and play a crucial role in shaping Compassion USA's visual experience.

What will you do?

• Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Be a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintaining a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully uphold Compassion’s ministry in prayer.
• Act as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understand Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commit to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abide by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Report any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately support responses to incidents if they occur.
• Uphold and engage in Compassion’s core Cultural Behaviors.
• Develop Compassion USA’s visual brand standards and guidelines by localizing a newly released Compassion Global Brand for the USA market. Strategically shape Compassion USA’s Vis Id to increase recognition, integrity, distinction, and consistency of the Compassion brand.
• Partner with a team of designers on Compassion USA’s internal Creative and Content team to implement a consistent visual expression of the Compassion brand across all projects produced by the team. This includes consulting, developing resources, sharing design best practices, and guiding toward effective implementation of the Vis ID across projects.
• Lead the rollout of the Compassion USA Vis Id across projects led by the internal Creative and Content team, including managing the roadmap of the rollout, and consulting with various stakeholders to understand and navigate the various risks, opportunities, and costs associated with the execution of the vis id rollout. 
• Act as a consultant on the Compassion USA visual, building collaborative relationships with designers working on a wide array of projects across the ministry.
• Be a strategic partner in problem-solving and developing creative solutions to challenging visual design endeavors on large-scope project designs in response to communication and marketing strategies and goals expressed by clients. Project types include, but are not limited to, campaigns, customer experience moments, print, email, paid media, organic social media, live event experiences, and video.
• Develop a test and learn plan for design and housing learnings from tests across a wide range of projects and initiatives.
• Act as the lead designer for concepting rounds of high priority and campaigns with the ability to skillfully hand off concepts for other designers to carry through to final art. There will also be times when you design from concept all the way through to final art.
• Possess a complex technical knowledge related to creative discipline of Graphic Design. Including design strategy, color theory, designing brand systems, concepting, designing communication and marketing pieces, designing branding elements, updating previously designed files, retouching, resizing, scaling, cropping, sketching layouts, designing communication or marketing pieces, designing branding elements, updating previously designed files.
• Output creative results into a form to be assessed by necessary parties. This includes uploading, archiving, creating print-ready documents, other media delivery processes as needed. 
• Design, develop, and ensure the creation of design materials and projects to support a wide variety of requests from large scale and complex communicatio