Creative Designer (Finance)

Nemours Children's Health is seeking a Creative Designer to join our in-house creative team. This role is responsible for developing compelling, brand-aligned visual assets across digital and print platforms to support marketing, communications, and brand strategy efforts. The ideal candidate is a visual storyteller with a strong design sensibility, technical proficiency, and a passion for healthcare's positive impact on children and families.

As part of the Creative Content team, this role understands how to execute brand and marketing creative from conception to delivery of marketing materials, event promotions, philanthropy campaigns, websites, digital signage, environmental displays, print pieces, conference materials and experiences, executive presentations, and other projects

Essential Functions:

Design Process: The Creative Designer will be tackling JIRA tasks submitted by Institutional Advancement team members, business partners and/or marketing and vetted by the Creative Design Manager. This individual must be able to keep track of multiple projects at once from initial conceptualization through project delivery, with a priority given to all Institutional Advancement projects. This role may also oversee vendor relationships overseeing the quality and timeliness of deliverables.

Design Thinking: The Creative Designer is genuinely interested in designing beautiful experiences f or maximum impact with intended audiences . Through the application of design thinking, this role encourages designers to explore, define, and communicate through nonlinear dimensions that manifest into design artifacts (i.e., sketches, comps, competitive analysis, etc.).

Design Strategy: Be able to move beyond project deliverables to systems thinking, putting processes in place to facilitate and foster design thinking, research and collaboration among Design, Brand, Marketing, and Institutional Advancement teams. Contribute to strategic growth not just technically, but also along the lines of team culture and growth. Have deep understanding of the business impact of creative work and be able to communicate the value of research and design to peers, directors and executives. Provide ideas to connect the brand across traditional and digital platforms to meet strategic fundraising goals.

Visual Storyteller: The Creative Designer can develop clear, persuasive stories for a wide range of audiences, including donors, prospective donors, corporate partners, and community stakeholders. This individual brings data to life and spurs audiences into action - via print and digital applications. The Creative Designer is proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts (i.e., storytelling, storyboards, mood boards, prototypes, infographics, etc.).

Brand Standards & Web Conformance (WCAG 2.0): The Creative Designer must ensure that all print, photography, and digital assets comply with our brand standards and conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (Section 508).

Brand Identity Developer: Responsible for creating and unifying content marketing, visual design, and user experience to create a holistic brand experience. Champion brand positioning and ensure compliance at every point of contact for the enterprise's Masterbrand, sub-brands, and strategic initiatives. Building from our brand guidelines, create accessible templates that can be leveraged by the Institutional Advancement team and others.

Agile Practitioner: The Creative Designer will be part of an Agile team that includes other cross-functional team members and business stakeholders. This individual will be expected to track and adopt Agile principles (i.e., estimate time, track production in JIRA, participate in reviews / retrospectives, etc.).

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree required, preferable in creative, graphic, or visual design field.

Requires 3+ years work experience in creative or visual design role.

Extremely proficient in Adobe CC design software (i.e., InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.). Mastery of Microsoft Office platform such as PowerPoint and Word. Ability to work from low fidelity to high fidelity. Ability to create layouts and digital assets for web, social media, print, signage, environments, email, and other communication channels.

Ability to work efficiently in a dynamic Agile team environment. Ability to switch rapidly from one project to another, as workflow requires. Strong organizational and time management skills are a must. Can comfortably assess and manage a high volume and variety of projects with aggressive deadlines.

Strong understanding of print production (i.e., pre-press, color separations, 2- and 4- color process with offset printing, obtaining estimates, bidding jobs, paper specs, etc.); and digital asset production (i.e. web color theory). Knowledge of digital signage (i.e. display control software, image / video inventory, equipment and network infrastructure, deployment, etc.) is a plus.

Practitioner of building and maintaining working files inside a collaborative file structure. Experience working within established brand and style guides. Committed to adhering to digital and non-digital guidelines.

Ability to understand business / branding objectives as well as user goals and apply that understanding to develop and extend our reach. Ability to quickly deliver multiple ideas that are fresh and simple while solving complex customer / business needs