Location: Remote

About Jhatkaa:

Jhatkaa is a non-profit campaigning start-up. We are committed to building citizen power across India to help people take action collectively on issues that affect them. We engage citizens to hold leaders accountable in real time at key decision moments through various digital communication platforms in order to create change collectively.

Your role:

We’re looking to add a Graphic Designer on retainer to our team. This position is a key role within the Campaigns Team.

As Jhatkaa’s Graphic Designer, your responsibilities will include:

Work closely with the Campaigns Team to regularly create graphics for social media, website and print  
Keeping up on social media trends and best practices, and implementing them in your work
Reporting back on the performance of our graphics during weekly campaigns meetings; we will provide training for this.
Collaborating with campaigns team to develop a consistent and compelling visual style and voice for Jhatkaa
Constantly thinking up news ways that visuals could improve our work

Required skills:

Experience in designing graphics
Knowledge of graphic design software: candidate should be well versed in using software like Photoshop, CorelDraw, InDesign
Knowledge of visual design fundamentals
Strong written and oral communication skills

Attributes:

Self-starter: We’re a small team with ambitious goals. So while we will support you, we’re looking for people who don’t let anything get in the way of achieving individual and organisational goals.
Quick learner: You need the ability to synthesize news skills and information quickly, and implement them into your work.
Ambition: Our goal is to have 1,00,000 Facebook fans and 20,000 Instagram followers in 2021. This means scaling up by a factor of 10x and 20x, respectively.
Data-driven mindset: You should constantly be thinking about relevant data points, analysing what they mean, and how to better integrate them into your work.
An awareness of contemporary issues in India
Previous experience in the advocacy, organising, or campaigning space
Candidates with skills and experience in video editing will be given preference.

Jhatkaa has a fast paced, collaborative work culture. You should be ready to face new challenges at a start up and be completely ego-less.

Fluency in English and at least one other Indian language is needed. Fluency in other languages will be an advantage.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion. We follow affirmative action on the basis of gender, caste, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

TO APPLY:

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