Graphic Designer - Mexico

at  Twinkl

Job Introduction
Location: Colombia - 100% Remote / Home Working (Must permanently live in Mexico & have the right to work without restrictions to apply for this role)
Pay Rate: $8 USD
Contract: 12-month initial contract (Highly likely to be extended, but no guarantees) - Self-employed contractor. Responsible for own taxes.
Hours of work: 37.5hrs
Hiring Manager: Mónica Rojas Heidkie
Recruiter: Will Thom

A LITTLE ABOUT THE CULTURE WITHIN DESIGN

This position is a 12-month contract for 37.5 hours per week of work. As a self-employed position, it comes with lots of flexibility in how you manage your schedule, but unlike many other freelance roles you’ll be welcomed into and feel very much a part of a focused team that meets regularly via video call, collaborates together and works closely as its own production unit. This is a great environment for anyone looking for a close knit, communicative and friendly work environment, but less well suited to those who would prefer the total flexibility and independence that shorter term, project based freelance positions offer.
As a designer at Twinkl, you’ll also benefit from being part of a global community of 200+ Graphic Designers across different levels of experience, backgrounds and specialisms. The team regularly shares and celebrates the excellent work that they produce with each other, as well as running forums to share knowledge, tips and tricks to keep your design practice as sharp as possible.

THE ROLE:

As a Graphic Designer at Twinkl, you’ll join a small production team made up of Teacher Content Writers, Teacher Content Editors, Illustrators and Graphic Designers to produce a wide variety of beautiful learning materials that will be downloaded, printed, and utilised for learning in education settings around the world. Upon joining, you’ll undergo 3 weeks of foundation training learning about our brand guidelines, design templates, software and working methods, giving you the tools needed to be a fantastic, efficient and effective designer of educational materials.
Once training is completed, you’ll utilise programs such as InDesign, PowerPoint and Word to work through a steady stream of editorial and layout design work, collaborating with the qualified teachers who write and check the content for our resources before they’re uploaded to our website. Within Country/Product teams we create different types of resources covering all areas of the curriculum and across a wide age range every week. The resource types and age range you will be working on will depend on the team you join. As such, you should be passionate about education and excited to contribute to a market-leading business that helps teachers spend more time with children and less time doing the admin that surrounds it.

TO SUCCEED IN THE ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Have excellent English and Spanish Language skills.
• Have strong experience in InDesign.
• Have experience of following brand guidelines.
• Be able to take on feedback and use this to further develop your designs.
• Have an eye for detail, creativity and imagination.
• Be proficient at managing workload and meeting targets and deadlines.
• Care about education and helping teachers and learners across the globe

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL LEARN:

• How to be an in-house designer within a professional workplace.
• Learn and understand the resource lifecycle from our teachers writing the content to our users downloading the content to teach.
• Learn the importance of the end user, accessibility and functionality.
• To work in an Agile production team environment.
• Work with other Twinklees across the business through live briefs and workshops to improve your design practice.
• Opportunities to learn more about different areas within Twinkl via shadowing.