The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an
international non-profit, non - governmental organization that
carries out high quality, policy relevant research on population, health and
education issues facing sub-Saharan Africa.
The Center seeks to recruit a Web designer with modern web
development and graphic design skills.
If you have a good sense of humor and love working with data,
visual effects and creating state of the art websites and web tools and are
interested in development related issues, this is the job for you.
Responsibilities
- Designing,
developing and managing APHRC’s websites
- Revitalize the
information architecture and link knowledge products to the Center’s
program areas.
- Develop site
content and graphics by coordinating with copywriters and graphic artists;
designing images, icons, banners, audio enhancements, etc.
- Develop new ways
to visualize and showcase our data focusing on new innovations in online
communication (such as infographics, interactive web tools, blogging, and
social media) to improve content presentation, access, use and feedback.
- Code graphic
design projects into PHP files (such as the e-newsletter, new web blast
templates, etc.)
- Manage links
that enable users to share documents with friends and colleagues.
- Create and
manage an easy-to-use content management system for the website.
- Develop friendly
online fundraising options and work with the fundraising team to develop
new ways to improve this functionality.
- Monitor
performance and results, identifying and evaluating improvement options,
introducing new technology and maintaining links.
- Provide weekly
website analytics by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and
trends and then optimize and generate ideas to increase traffic through
the site.
- Implement and
maintain website enhancements, security/privacy policies, user accounts,
access rights, passwords, etc.
- Recommend and
apply user experience approaches based upon the latest interactive trends
and best practices in the industry.
Qualifications
- Degree in
graphic design, IT or a related discipline. Additional communications
qualifications will be an added advantage.
- At least 3 years
relevant experience.
- Programming
language aptitude (particularly web design languages).
- Proven excellent
graphic design and copy-writing skills
- Demonstrated
experience in creating info-graphics and or interactive web data
visualizations.
- Multimedia
skills such as podcast or webcast editing, video editing are a plus.
Skills: Web Graphic Design, Web Savvy, Planning, Web User Interface
Design, Web Programming Skills, Illustration Tools, Multimedia Content
Development, Understanding Browser Capabilities, Internet Presence, Excellent
communications skills, and Team work.
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply enclosing a
detailed CV, quoting current and expected salary and providing contact details
of three referees to the address below by 11 February, 2013.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Please indicate the position you are applying for on the
envelope or on the subject line for those applying by email: jobs@aphrc.org.
The Human Resources Manager
African Population and Health Research Center
P.O. Box 10787-00100 GPO,
African Population and Health Research Center
P.O. Box 10787-00100 GPO,
Nairobi
Website: www.aphrc.org
