About the Role

Our Creative Lead will work as a deputy to our Creative Director on our Global Communications team, and will manage the Global Comms team support request systems and oversee all incoming creative requests, delegating those out to team units and helping ensure the team is upkeeping our SLAs and quality. They will be a strong contributor to creative brainstorms and ideation, will support the organization’s brand management, and will review all creative content for quality, holding last line creative reviews for Tier 2 and Tier 3 content.

This position will also manage and be responsible for the professional development of a creative team of ~5 people working on graphic design and video, directly managing ~3 reports.

Key Responsibilities

Creative Content Quality Review & Brand Management

• Hold quality bar and last line reviews for Tier 2 and Tier 3 creative content running through Global Comms
• Review and give feedback to improve quality on writing, design, photography, and video
• Accountable for final sign off on Tier 2 and Tier 3 content before it’s published
• Engage in brand building and advising for new affiliates within the org’s brand families
• Engage in brand building and advising for new affiliates within the org’s brand families
• Drive brand guideline expansions and evolutions to better serve our markets as needed (example, work with the Design Lead to build out youth brand guidelines)

Run & Improve Comms Support Systems

• Build, maintain, and improve single Comms support request form
• Receive incoming requests and delegate those out to team units
• Ensure the team is upkeeping our SLAs and quality
• Continually improve our content storing and sharing systems as well as templates, with the support of the Comms team to execute improvements

Creative Brainstorming & Ideation

• Contribute to campaign, brand, and design brainstorming and ideation
• Contribute to content planning and design content that can be cross purposed based on upcoming content plans
• Hold standing touch points with Internal comms, External comms, Digital and BizDev to support content planning and production

Qualifications

• Keen attention to detail for reviewing and upholding a quality bar
• Strong project management and organization skills
• Strong people management skills and culture setting skills
• Proficient in Google Suite
• Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite
• Technical expertise in one or multiple creative fields, i.e. graphic design, video, photography, or writing knowledge
• Strong understanding of One Acre Fund’s brand, what makes it unique, and how to translate that across mediums in content
• Strong knowledge of one or more of the markets where One Acre Fund operates

• Hold quality bar and last line reviews for Tier 2 and Tier 3 creative content running through Global Comms
• Review and give feedback to improve quality on writing, design, photography, and video
• Accountable for final sign off on Tier 2 and Tier 3 content before it’s published
• Engage in brand building and advising for new affiliates within the org’s brand families
• Drive brand guideline expansions and evolutions to better serve our markets as needed (example, work with the Design Lead to build out youth brand guidelines)
• Build, maintain, and improve single Comms support request form
• Receive incoming requests and delegate those out to team units
• Ensure the team is upkeeping our SLAs and quality
• Continually improve our content storing and sharing systems as well as templates, with the support of the Comms team to execute improvements
• Contribute to campaign, brand, and design brainstorming and ideation
• Contribute to content planning and design content that can be cross purposed based on upcoming content plans
• Hold standing touch points with Internal comms, External comms, Digital and BizDev to support content planning and production

• Keen attention to detail for reviewing and upholding a quality bar
• Strong project management and organization skills
• Strong people management skills and culture setting skills
• Proficient in Google Suite
• Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite
• Technical expertise in one or multiple creative fields, i.e. graphic design, video, photography, or writing knowledge
• Strong understanding of One Acre Fund’s brand, what makes it unique, and how to translate that across mediums in content
• Strong knowledge of one or more of the markets where One Acre Fund operates

• Keen attention to detail for reviewing and upholding a quality bar
• Strong project management and organization skills
• Strong people management skills and culture setting skills
• Proficient in Google Suite
• Expertise with Adobe Creative Suite
• Technical expertise in one or multiple creative fields, i.e. graphic design, video, photography, or writing knowledge
• Strong understanding of One Acre Fund’s brand, what makes it unique, and how to translate that across mediums in content
• Strong knowledge of one or more of the markets where One Acre Fund operates