OPEN ROLE: visual designer
Update: This role has been filled, thank you so much for applying!
We’re looking for a visual designer with basic website design & development skills to help us bring Design for Women—our women-centric methodology, framework and toolkit—to life!
This is a contract, part-time, remote role.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION & INFORMATION
Design for Women is a methodology, toolkit, and framework developed by engaging in several hours of research with gender and feminist practitioners around the world. The methodology equips designers and decision-makers to actively and intentionally design for women. The framework and toolkit provide tactile ways for designers to get started with a “women-centric” design process and approach. Design for Women is created by Unconform.
Project Scope:
Create overall visual identity
Create relevant visuals / illustration to support the methodology (in the form of frameworks, diagrams, canvases etc).
Design content and materials (including project report/PDF, worksheet templates, one-pagers etc) to ensure usability of the methodology
Design (and/or develop) website and/or online home for the project
Contribute to cleaner information architecture to ensure the essence of the methodology comes through
See example projects below
Design Intentions:
It is most important to us that the design of the methodology makes it usable. The design thinking sphere is saturated with toolkits, and we want to ensure that the voices from our research are able to make an impact on the folks that engage with the methodology.
Collaboration:
We are a small team and are looking for a designer who will work alongside us as a co-creator and partner on this work. We are not interested in a conventional “client-agency” relationship.
Timeline & Commitment:
Fall & Winter 2022 / Delivery by EOY 2022 / Project Launch early 2023
This is a contract, part-time, remote role
Budget Range:
Up to 4,500 EUR. We’re a lean team and would love to keep our costs low for this engagement.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for a talented designer who is passionate about making an impact for women with a design lens.
Core Skills: Visual Design, Identity Design, Overall Visual Framework & Tools
Secondary Skills: Basic web development skills (this could be being able to tweak code in a Squarespace page or building a simple Wordpress site)
Secondary Skills: Support with information architecture to ensure the essence of the methodology comes through the visual identity & design
Prior gender and/or design thinking experience is welcomed
Previous experience with building frameworks and toolkits is welcomed
Preference to work with women designer(s) from underrepresented backgrounds/communities and with diverse lived experiences.
Preference for the designer to be based between IST and EST timezone for ease of collaboration. We are based in CET.
TO APPLY:
Email Mansi Gupta (mansi@unconformstudio.com) with subject line: “Visual Designer for Design for Women Application.” Please include the following:
Required:
Fit & Interest: A paragraph explaining why you would be a good fit for this project (no more than 4-5 sentences).
Core Skills: TWO previous work examples that you believe is most similar to this project showing off your visual design skills
Secondary Skills: TWO previous work examples that you believe is most similar to this project showing off your web design and/or development skills (indicate if you took on any coding responsibilities for the website)
Your proposed budget: We are a lean team building an open source methodology. Our maximum budget is 4,500 EUR – if it’s possible for you to propose anything below this upper limit, it would be so appreciated!
Additional Materials (not required):
Your CV/resume/LinkedIn profile
A link to your portfolio of other previous work (visual design)
Links to other websites you’ve designed
Deadline: Rolling applications until September 30, 2022
We’ll be in touch with next steps if there is a strong fit. Apologies in advance that we may not be able to respond to all proposals. Thank you so much for your understanding and consideration!