Job Description
Royal Media Services Limited wishes to recruit a suitably qualified person for the position of Graphics Designer. The holder of this position will be charged with production of creative and innovative graphic designs and animated products for production, marketing, sales, digital and editorial purposes.
KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The successful candidate will among others be able to do the following;
- Provide creative graphics solutions to meet the needs of various departments.
- Conceptualize, design and creatively package Station’s live-on- air or recorded properties
- Conceptualize, design and creatively package commercials, marketing promos, adverts and editorial products to enhance bulletins
- Confer and liaise with business executives and commercial producers to ensure efficient and timely execution of clients’ briefs
- Create 2D and 3D model animations and execute as briefed
- Contribute to team effort to ensure tasks are completed on time
- Ensure the station’s look and feel is protected by adhering to approved designs, fonts, colors, layouts and settings.
- Design and produce graphics for live on air or taped programs as requested by news producers, programme producers and transmission controllers
- Source, select and reproduce library music to go with designed properties
- Suggest ways of improving the look and feel of different properties and shows
- Provide creative graphics solutions to meet the needs of various departments.
- Preparing rough drafts of materials based on agreed brief.
- Determining size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and font style and size.
- Reviewing final layouts and suggesting improvements if required.
- Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts and developing interactive design.
- Advice clients on strategies to reach a particular audience.
Skills and Personal attribute
- Conversant with broadcast graphics design, editing and animation software including After effects, 3D studio max, Cinema 4D, 3D Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe illustrator, Adobe Premier or Final cut.
- Ability and willingness to train in station’s live-on-air systems including Wasp3D, Viz RT among others.
- Be very creative and innovative despite working under pressure and long hours
- Ability to pay attention to detail and keep strict deadlines
- A team player, patient, active listener and a problem solver
- Passionate about motion graphics design and its related tasks
- Good audio and video editing skills
- Follow-up of assignments till completion and a clear focus on results and seamless delivery
- Ability to understand, read and write in English, Kiswahili and/or Dholuo
- Game design and UX design skills are an added advantage
Academic and professional experience
- Degree or diploma in graphics design.
- Working experience at a broadcasting house will be an added advantage.
- Hands-on two years experience with the above softwares.
If you find this a good challenge and you qualify, please send your application and CV to recruitment@royalmedia.co.ke. Clearly cite Job REF No. HRD/GD/09/2021.
Closing date will be Friday 17th September 2021.
Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.