Job Title: Graphic Designer
Location: Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Hybrid
Duration: 4 years 7 months
Project Scope:
The client was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications.
OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies
Roles/Responsibilities:
- Meet with State staff to determine the scope of a project;
- Advise State on strategies to reach a particular audience;
- Determine the message the design should portray;
- Create images that identify a product or convey a message;
- Develop graphics for logos and websites;
- Select colors, images, text style, and layout;
- Present the design to State;
- Incorporate changes recommended by the State into the final design;
- Review designs for errors before printing or publishing them;
- Ensure that coding standards are met; optimizing the web architectures for navigability and accessibility;
- Utilize specialized graphic design software to prepare designs;
Mandatory Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience in software development or 2+ years of experience in graphic design
- Experience effectively executing against brand guidelines and maintaining brand standards, including demonstrating considered layout, image composition, typography and color palette
- Experience designing externally facing information and graphics in a visually appealing way
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and animation)
- Available to work from Baton Rouge, LA on a regular basis
Desirable Skills:
- Ability to effectively edit and augment written and visual elements of program content
- Experience translating technical concepts into straightforward visual designs
- Experience aligning web development applications with technical programming
- Familiarity with Craft CMS architecture
- Experience building user interfaces for websites and/or web applications
- UX/UI Design competencies
- Application of specialized skills within a government agency environment
Additional Information:
Candidate MUST have at least 10 years of total IT experience*