Position Description
The Brand and Design Manager serves a key role on the Communications and Events team as the primary conveyor and champion of MDIC's visual brand across all media. This position is an exciting opportunity for a trained designer to play a collaborative role in developing, refining, and iterating a continuously evolving visual brand for a rapidly evolving organization. The Brand and Design Manager will need a range of skills to be successful, including but not limited to document design/layout, social imagery design, event design, visual brand guideline development and implementation, sub-brand integration and design, presentation design, design for web, visual brand sourcing, project management, cross-organizational collaboration, and time management across competing priorities.
Key Responsibilities
The Brand and Design Manager will work cross-functionally with the fast-paced, high-output, and highly collaborative Communications and Events team to deliver in primary responsibility areas including:
- Document design and layout (case studies, executive summaries, annual reports, infographics)
- Event design (show look, web graphics, social graphics, signage templates, slide deck templates, marketing collateral)
- Presentation design (PowerPoint)
- Visual brand application/image sourcing for web and accessibility best practices (WordPress)
- Sub-brand design (NEST, educational programming)
- Social imagery design and visual brand by platform (LinkedIn)
- Primary staff resource on visual brand guidelines and application
Project management (Asana) of competing priorities across a broad portfolio, including individualized support of many program teams, executive support, and MDIC-wide initiatives (i.e. Annual Public Forum)*
Qualifications and Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in graphic design or related field of study
- Three to seven (3-7) years of relevant experience in design, brand, and/or marketing functions, preferably supporting healthcare, scientific, or technical field
- Experience working in nonprofit, mission-driven organizations preferred
- Expertise in Adobe CC, especially Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop
- Experience with Premiere, After Effects, or other video editing software
- Experience with content management platforms (WordPress or similar)
- Experience leading design projects in collaboration with stakeholders
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines
- Willingness to occasionally travel overnight for meetings and events.
Qualified candidates may be asked to submit a design portfolio.