Job Description

Position: Senior Graphic Design Trainer

Location: Garowe, Puntland state of Somalia

Closing Date:  02th January 2025

About Shaqodoon

Shaqodoon is a local NGO founded in 2011 to create innovative and long-lasting solutions to Somalia/land’s youth employment challenges. Shaqodoon organization designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the local community’s most urgent challenges in livelihood skill training, education, civic education, justice and health. Shaqodoon is a national platform whose goal is to prioritize youth employment and education on the development agenda and to exchange knowledge on effective policies and programs to improve employment and education opportunities for youth, prioritizing at risk youth, marginalized groups, and people who have lost hope and are thus often jailed for local crimes.

Bits Digital Design Academy is a youth-based program that uses ICT multimedia creatively to improve the lives of youth. Bits target population is the youth which are significant portion of the society. Bits school offers ICT trainings for these youth to equip skills to enable them engage in gainful income generating activities. The training is conducted in three levels/stages which include taught theory and practical and hands on training through internship and employment. The training curricula is based on creativity and encompasses marketable applications including graphic design, motion graphics, digital marketing, video editing, app development, web- design and development.

Shaqodoon is looking for a qualified graphic designer trainer in the areas in Adobe CC: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign. The ideal trainer will have at least 2-5 years of experience in the field and creative profile.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•       Delivering training programs to students in group classroom settings or on a one-on-one basis.

•       Adapting the Bits Academy curriculum and customizing training programs to suit the students' needs.

•       Supporting and coaching students through self-learning packages or the Koorso e-learning platform online courses.

•       Evaluating the effectiveness of the training and course outcomes and providing feedback to the Project Manager.

•       Taking responsibility for maintenances of hardware and software used for training purposes and recommending repairs and upgrades to the program coordinator where appropriate.

•       Keeping up to date with local ICT and design innovators, relevant systems software, and online training technology.

•       Delivering and facilitating training, coaching, and mentoring that encourage accelerated learning and result in the application of new knowledge and skills in the workplace.

Experiences and Qualifications

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Knowledge

•       A degree or equivalent qualifications and competencies in ICT or significant up to date industry experience to deliver the ICT

•       5+ years of the design industry and agency experience.

•       Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and Sketching.

•       Passionate about good design, motivated, ambitious and extremely creative – full of ideas across multi-platforms.

•       Strong typography, color theory, layout and technical skills with excellent attention to detail.

•       Experience of working across online banners (static and animated), social media posts (primarily Instagram and Facebook), web design, UI design and storytelling.

•       A creative designer who has a breadth of understanding of responsive design across all digital platforms.

•       A fantastic portfolio crammed with innovative and inspirational work demonstrating digital design and infographics/brochures.

•       Able to create beautiful visual UI design that can align with the UX design.

•       An understanding of UX and latest technology trends.

•       Confident and experienced in teaching, with a proven ability to engage and motivate learners effectively.

•       Confident, enthusiastic, quick to learn and able to think on your feet.

•       Able to talk through your ideas confidently with the team and clients. Must be a great communicator who can bounce off ideas with the team at every stage of the project cycle.

•       Be able to work independently and also within a team.

•       Flexible and adaptable with persistent drive to learn new skills and constantly improve.

•       Stay current with graphic design course best practices and industry-based.

Duration of contract:

•       The duration of the contract will be at least 1 year, with the possibility of extension.

Skills Required

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