Freelance Designer Pool

Introducing Zinc Network
Zinc Network is an ISO certified business dedicated to meaningful, measurable change. Zinc conceptualizes and creates programs, interventions, and strategic communications campaigns around some of the world's most complex problems - from disinformation to extremism, media capture to authoritarianism. We are headquartered in London with offices in Washington, D.C., Tbilisi, and Warsaw with 80+ team members from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds. Zinc works with a broad range of governmental, NGO, and private sector clients, including the UK Home Office (HO); the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO); the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the U.S. Department of State (DOS); UN agencies and missions; and foundations.
About The Role
Zinc Network is seeking freelance designers to join its talent pool. After approval to join the pool, you will be one of our go-to designers when we have relevant briefs on our exciting social-change projects around the world. Working to our Director of Content, you will create stunning visual concepts and designs for our campaigns and projects, helping to ensure that our partners' messages land with maximum visual impact.
Our campaigns require designers with a strong ability to design for social-first digital campaigns and platforms, as well as OOH, print, and video. We are looking for designers who are able to turn their hand to a variety of different styles, from hard-hitting current affairs campaigns to youth-focused content for Gen Z. We need midweight or senior designers who can create campaign brands from scratch, as well as more junior designers who can create assets within existing brand frameworks.
You will work closely with our production, strategy, digital, operations, and project management teams to ensure smooth and timely delivery of all assets.
You will need to speak fluent English. Experience of working with international clients is highly desirable.
You will be able to take a brief and turn it into compelling visual ideas, working across different social platforms and formats. You will be able to create these in a range of different styles for a variety of different audiences.
Key Responsibilities
Generating innovative design concepts and selling them both internally and externally with our clients and partners
Communicating design ideas effectively
Helping develop new campaign concepts and brands
Maintaining high standards and ensuring only the best work is presented and implemented
Work with our partners and clients to devise and deliver compelling content ideas in line with their needs
Ensure assets are delivered to a high quality and on time
Design (via translation) in a number of unfamiliar languages and scripts, and ensure our content is relevant to different global cultural and political contexts
Ensure attention to detail in presentation of work
Participate in internal and client reviews, communicating creative vision and proposals effectively
Take feedback well and be prepared to revise your work in order to meet the needs of our clients, partners and internal stakeholders
Requirements
Fluent written and spoken English
Experience of working with international clients is highly desirable
Excellent understanding of the design needs of different social media platforms and audiences
Several years' experience working as a designer
Experience of creating motion graphics is a plus
Excellent communication skills
Excellent time management and organisational skills
Meticulous attention to detail
Positive and flexible ‘can-do' attitude and willingness to solve problems
Ability to get on well with the team
Conditions of Employment
Candidates who receive a job offer will be required to:
Disclose any previous disciplinary action against them resulting from a substantiated safeguarding (including any breaches involving trafficking- related activities) or workplace investigation.
Undergo background checks including employment verification, sexual offender registry (as available), identity confirmation, and anti-terrorism vetting.
Area of Selection
We're committed to hiring a diverse workforce from different professional and cultural backgrounds, and to that end, we encourage a variety of people to apply to join our company to represent the diverse range of subjects associated with our projects.
Application Process
Please include a cover letter stating how you meet each of the requirements.
If you require an accommodation to be made at any point throughout the recruitment process, please advise us when contacted.