Creative Lead at One Acre Fund

One Acre, founded in 2006, supplies smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural trainings to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund. We serve more than 800,000 farm families in Eastern and Southern Africa, with more than 7,500 full-time staff, and we aim to serve 1 million farm families by 2020.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Creative Lead

Location: Nigeria

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.

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.

Career Growth and Development:

• We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people.
• You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance.
• We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals.
• You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• Keen attention to detail for reviewing and upholding a quality bar
• Strong project management and organization skills
• 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

Benefits

• Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online