Call for Web / Graphic Designer

Web / Graphic Designer
Toronto, Canada

An international organization combining youth, technology and global community to create positive global change

Position: Web / Graphic Designer
Position Location: Toronto, Ontario
Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
Details: 40 hours/week
Salary: $26,000 – 32,000 /year, depending on experience
Applications Due: June 4th 2012

TakingITGlobal (TIG) is seeking a Web / Graphic Designer to join our team for a unique opportunity. Under the direction of our Creative Director, the ideal candidate will have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to stimulating projects and expand their skill-set and network. Our model applicant can take great pride in contributing not only to our office on a local level, but also to TIG’s world-wide network.

~The TIG Team

Roles and Responsibilities
• Working on design for internal and external youth-focused projects including website, logos, and print materials.
• Creating illustrations, photo manipulation
• Maintaining brand consistency in all web & print projects
• Preparing material for press, including consultation with printing companies
• Updating web design work and enhancing the TakingITGlobal online community platform.

Skills
• Experience with web production and graphic design, 2+ years industry experience
• A strong knowledge of the current web design standards and technology
• A solid foundation in typography and general brand design
• Extremely detail oriented. Strives for pixel perfect implementation on all browsers.
• A strong knowledge of user interface design, information architecture and SEO process
• Proficient in all Adobe Creative Suite applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, etc.)
• Working knowledge of Flash, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro is an asset
• Ability to turn a mockup into valid XHTML and CSS (not required but has basic knowledge)
• Self-motivated with the ability to work quickly and efficiently while conquering creative challenges under short deadlines
Problem-solver that can think outside the box when required
Ability to work in a group setting, as well as independently and also be able to take direction by different project leads
Strong consultation skills to interact with management, staff and suppliers to support program areas
Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate and build effective working relationships and to provide support and advice to the team regarding web production and graphic design issues



About TakingITGlobal

TakingITGlobal is an international organization lead by youth, empowered by technology. TakingITGlobal (TIG) connects youth from around the world to find inspiration, information and get involved in improving their local, regional and global communities.

TakingITGlobal’s mission is to provide opportunities for learning, capacity building, cross-cultural awareness, and self-development through the use of Information and Communication Technologies. Its key strategic initiatives include; providing a virtual space for cross-cultural expression, dialogue, networking and collaboration among youth, supporting youth action and understanding around global issues, developing rich interactive, global education experiences, and facilitating the development of local content, multilingualism and skills training.

TakingITGlobal has approximately 20 staff based in Toronto and an additional 20 staff who work part-time in different parts of Canada and around the world as well as hundreds of volunteers. Supporters include RBC Financial Group, Microsoft, the Government of Canada, the McConnell Foundation and Gordon Foundation. Please visit www.tigweb.org/about for further information.

Application Process:
Please include an online portfolio or pdf of your portfolio along with your resume and cover letter, and submit it to the Human Resources Department via jobs@takingitglobal.org

Application Deadline: June 11th 2012

Please electronically mail your cover letter and resume and include the title of the position in the subject line
of your email and let us know how you heard about the position. Please do not mail or personally submit resumes, as we are a small organization and do not have the capacity to respond.

We thank all candidates for their interest; however, due to the volume of applications and inquiries we receive, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

CALL FOR RESEARCHER- MOBILITY&TOURING IN EAST AFRICAN VISUAL ARTS FIELD

Art Moves Africa (AMA) is an international not for profit organization aiming at facilitating cultural and artistic exchanges within the African continent.

AMA offers travel grants to artists and cultural practitioners living and working in Africa to travel within the African continent in order to engage in the exchange of information, the enhancement of skills, the development of informal networks and the pursuit of cooperation.

With the support of regular evaluations and statistics of applications received and of grants allocated to African cultural practitioners, AMA succeeds in developing its interventions as grant making organization and to identify needs within the African artistic mobility sector.

Following this perspective, in 2011 AMA commissioned a research study called “Mobility & Touring in East Africa” with the objective to identify the main actors of the performing arts field in East Africa and analyse the relevance and frequency of artistic mobility from that geographical area towards the whole African continent.

After the success of its first research experience on mobility & touring in East African performing arts field, AMA is planning to recruit a researcher in order to launch a new study on the visual arts sector in the same geographical area. The researcher will be working and travelling in east African countries.


Tasks:

• Identification and mapping of available infrastructure and human resources in the visual arts field;

• Identification and analysis of opportunities and the major obstacles to mobility in East Africa;

• Proposal of feasible and practical solutions for the implementation of mobility.

Further information about term of references of research are available upon request to: info@artmovesafrica.org 

Interested applicants are invited to send CV and motivation letter to: research@artmovesafrica.org

Deadline to send applications: 4th June 2012

STIR Relationships Manager, New Delhi, India

STIR Relationships Manager, New Delhi, India
Over the last decade, substantial progress has been made across the developing
world in improving access to education. Yet such improvements in access and
resources have not been matched with an equivalent increase in education quality and
outcomes. In India, 60% of second year children are unable to read a simple
paragraph, and 70% cannot perform simple mathematical tasks such as long division.
STIR is based on the belief that the most effective method of change is to build on
what the best teachers and schools are already doing. We’re creating a new
mechanism for collating the best ‘micro-innovations’ in education taking place in
classrooms globally. And by rigorously assessing their impact on learning and
attainment we aim to replicate and scale-up the most effective micro-innovations
across the developing world.
We’re now looking to recruit a Relationship Manager to join our team in Delhi.
You'll play a lead role in creating and managing a portfolio of micro-innovations
that, if scaled effectively, have the potential to make a positive impact on literacy
and numeracy on a global level.
You will have excellent skills in innovation management and stakeholder
engagement; experience in building relationships with senior policymakers, NGO
leaders and business leaders; and, crucially, you believe in the possibility of giving
all children an excellent education. We have three main goals in bringing this person
on to our team:
1. Enable STIR Fellows & Schools to succeed
STIR Fellows (teacher innovators) and Schools are working very hard to educate
India’s future. But they are also challenging the status quo and re-defining how
students learn and we want to help them develop and share their ideas globally.
2. Building & Managing Relationships
Our success is tied with the success of our Fellows and Schools and most importantly
of the students. The role of the Relationship Manager is pivotal in building
relationships with our corporate, non-profit and policy partners to create a path of
least resistance for the innovations to scale.
We also want our Relationship Managers to identify the most appropriate scale-up
partners for the STIR micro-innovations and work with the STIR Programme
Managers, as well as our schools and teachers, to successfully scale their ideas and
impact both national and global education policy.
3. Become the backbone of STIR in India
We’re a rapidly growing organization with ambitions to transform the education
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landscape for the world’s poorest children. Overcoming the challenges in reaching our
goals will require building an entrepreneurial movement that learns from the
challenges as well as the successes and you’ll be the building blocks of this movement
in India.
STIR’s ability to successfully share and scale the most innovative teaching practices in
the world will hinge on creating an organization that people feel proud to be part of,
and we want you to help us create something that we can all be proud of!
The Relationship Manager will be responsible for building our partnerships with
corporate, non-profit and policy partners in order to take the ideas identified to
scale, and will be pivotal in all interaction between STIR and our partners. For the
first year we expect to screen over 300 applicants and recruit 25 Fellows from
Delhi to participate in the programme. In the second year we expect to select the
best 10 micro-innovations and take them to scale in partnership with corporate,
non-profit and policy partners.
The Ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in either the non-profit
or corporate sectors and a strong demonstrated interest in the education sector
either through their work or as a volunteer and clear experience in managing
change or developing a portfolio of innovations
 
Required Skills & Experience
- Experience of leading projects especially experience of taking an idea from
inception to completion
- Experience of working with external partners and senior management
- Experience of overseeing multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience managing change and supporting others to do so
- Experience working with a large range of stakeholders from different sectors and
backgrounds and accessing external support and resources
- Experience mentoring and managing people and helping them to develop as
leaders
- Able to understand the factors that will enable change in a variety of contexts
- Sensitive to the different level of support people need and able to provide the
necessary support
- Data driven - make decisions based on numbers and information available
- Detail oriented - attention to detail is very important
 
Personal Qualities
- Strong commitment to excellent education for all and a belief in teachers and
school leaders as innovators
- Need to be highly presentable and personable especially as you create close links
with corporates, non-profits and policy makers
- Demonstrate maturity and the ability to lead
- Humility as you work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds and
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- Resilience in the face of the challenges of impacting public education in India
- Creative – especially in terms of motivating people and finding ways to overcome
the challenges of working in the public sector
- Confident in wide variety of social settings
- Flexible and comfortable in a start-up environment
 
Specific Responsibilities
1. You’ll work very closely with Programme Managers and our partners to help them
take ideas from the classroom to a wider audience
2. To connect Fellows and Programme Managers with resources and develop
individualized solutions to their challenges in scaling their ideas
3. Build and manage relationships with all partners
4. Identify suitable partners for each innovation and plan and recruit resources to
enable successful scaling of the ideas
5. To design and conduct ongoing workshops to build Fellows’ skills
6. To actively cultivate a network of partners
7. Create appropriate marketing material and strategy to publicise the programme
and the micro-innovations of our Fellows to partners
 
Application Process

• In a cover letter please share with us why you are interested in Education in

general and STIR specifically and why you think you’re suitable for the role?

• Please also answer the following questions in 400 words or less:
•  What would you do with Rs. 1 Lakh to impact education in India?

Talk through what you see as one key area that you’ll focus on, why
you think so, and how you’d spend the money.

• A teacher has been highly successful using virtual money as a tool to

teach basic arithmetic operations to students – identify the most
appropriate partner that would enable this idea to scale most
widely and also state the resources and steps you’ll take to ensure
this method is used across all schools in Delhi.

• Please also send a copy of your CV and details for two referees to

ssingh@stireducation.org
For more information about STIR and our mission please visit
www.stireducation.org

Communication and Storytelling

Intensiv one-week course that provides participants with basic skills within communication and storytelling

COURSE CONTENT

Formal writing
Professional and efficient business communication, including email communication and how to compose a CV and application letters for jobs, funding or others.

Article writing and Press releases
Storytelling, interview technique, target groups, brainstorming and decision making technique.

Social Media Channels
The use, purpose, and potential of: Twitter, facebook, linkedin, blogging, website incl. getting participants online.

Layout
The basic guidelines for a good layout in marketing material (flyers, brochures, etc.)


For further information or enrolment please contact course trainer
Julie Krogh:
julie.krogh@training4change.org
+255 688 020 359

Course start

Monday, June 4, 2012

Course end

Friday, June 8, 2012

Location

Global Platform Dar es Salaam Tanzania

Who can participate

NGO and communication employees

Price

210 USD

More Information

Summary

MS-TCDC Dar es Salaam is conducting an intensive one-week communication course that provides participants with tools to communicate consistent, efficient and in an inspiring way. The course will touch upon various aspects of organizational and corporate communication as well as storytelling, and will be adjusted to the specific interests of the participants.

Youth Employment Forum: Call for applications for Young Journalists/Bloggers

 

The International Labour Organization (ILO) will offer five young journalists/bloggers the opportunity to promote and cover the Youth Employment Forum, which will take place in Geneva from 23 to 25 May 2012.

The selected journalists/bloggers will be invited to attend the ILO Youth Employment Forum, providing them with a unique opportunity to hear individual stories from over 100 young women and men from around the world who are active in the promotion of decent work for youth.
The Youth Employment Forum will serve as a platform for young people to voice their views on the current youth employment situation and to share ideas on what can be done to provide more and better jobs for their generation.
Young journalists/bloggers will support the coverage of the Forum through social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter and blogs), articles, interviews and other relevant mediums. They will also report back to their regional and local communities, networks and organizations.

Criteria for Selection

• Must be below 30 years of age,
• Have journalism (online, print, photo, video, radio) and/or blogging experience,
• Have working knowledge of English, French and/or Spanish. Knowledge of another of the official United Nations languages (Arabic, Chinese and Russian) is also an asset.

Selection Process

The selection panel of the ILO Youth Employment Programme encourages young journalists/bloggers who meet the criteria to enter the competition. The panel will seek to have a balanced representation of entries from different sexes, regions and language groups.

Required documents for the selection process

• A CV
• A brief cover letter explaining why you would like to participate
• Two or three online articles, videos, etc. prepared by you, illustrating your journalism experience

Applications should be sent to youth@ilo.org with the subject “I am a young journalist / blogger”
Air travel and accommodation expenses for the selected young journalists/bloggers will be covered by the ILO.