Africa Graphic Designer and/or Design Instructor at Social Movement Technologies
Location
Remote
Salary
Hourly rate $15-$20/hr + more for leading training/coaching
Job Type
Freelance
This is a 100% remote job. You can be located anywhere across Africa, but must have reliable internet.
Keep your full-time job or other work commitments but freelance with SMT to share your design expertise to strengthen people power movements across the African continent a few hours a week or month.
SMT has a need for relatively simple design work using Canva, a few hours a month, and also is looking to build the team of designers who can work with social change staff and activists and provide training and coaching on design.
We are especially interested in applications from people with design experience who have been organizing for social justice.
Social Movement Technologies’ mission is to provide strategy, training and campaign support to build people-power for justice and win in the digital age. We’re an NGO movement support group, driven 100% to meet movement needs. We’re super lean – we do lots with little, just like most of the groups we work with.
SMT’s small but highly effective team has trained staff from over 5000 groups over its first eleven years, and worked with 200+ groups on campaigns more in-depth.
SMT provides the in-depth campaign training that staff and activists need in the digital age. Our goal is to expand access by driving down the cost of this training and providing excellent online learning experiences to dramatically deepen organizing proficiency. Our focus is on using digital campaigning to amplify in-person action, broaden support, activate supporters, and pressure targets. Our bias is towards meeting the needs of small to medium-size groups.
How to apply: Please let us know where you heard about the job. Tell us about your relevant experience. Share your resume, a design portfolio, and a list of the tools in which you have proficiency. This app only allows one doc upload, so please include a portfolio link in your cover letter. A later step in the process will include a timed live exercise. References will be required.
We regret that we will not be able to acknowledge all applications in a personal way, nor do we have the capacity to have pre-application conversations. We greatly appreciate that time and care is invested in each of them. Position will be open until filled.