Advertising, Marketing,
PR, Media and Digital

Jhb: 011 883 5404
CT: 021 422 3590 www.adtalent.co.za     

Recruiters & Career Coaches in Advertising, Marketing and Media Industries

Lynn: 082 802 4441 (Advertising/Digital/Media)

az.oc.dauqskroweht@nnyl

Jo-Anne: 084 200 1703 (Marketing/Sales/PR)

az.oc.dauqskroweht@ennaoj

Recruitment Specialists since 1989

Rob Jones:

az.oc.llywel@jbor

Michelle Jones:

az.oc.llywel@jhcim

Tel: 011 465 9368
www.lewyll.co.za

Livity Africa is looking for a talented young designer (three days a week) who wants to develop their creative communications skills. As a key member of the creative team, the role will require the conceptualisation and execution of dynamic design solutions for both print and digital media. The designer’s main responsibility will be to lead the visual direction of exciting brands. The designer will get the opportunity to work on a variety of briefs, both in-house and client specific, such as: logo design, layout (publication), illustration, infographics, digital presentations, graphic elements for video, website elements (digital banners/website templates/visuals to support written content), roll-out of digital campaigns across social media platforms, marketing collateral and event collateral.

A key objective of the role:

• Leading and overseeing all visual creative output from Livity Africa, including all aspects of the visual identity of the company, its platforms and client work.

Responsibilities:

Manage/oversee

• Ensuring design studio and design processes are functioning well
• Overseeing visual elements of pitches and briefs from external clients, and driving the visual/design side of the creative process for responding to briefs
• Leading the development of all visual assets for Livity Africa and Live SA – proactively leading us to be a cutting edge youth brand
• Being the brand guardian of Livity Africa’s visual identity and development
• Ensuring high standard of visual identity and assets for Livity Africa and Live SA, as well as other campaigns and external clients
• Liaising and communicating with the rest of the creative team: for internal and client briefs
• With a network of freelancers, expand the team where necessary to delivery on creative requirements

Execution

• Working on conceptualisation, creative solution-finding and problem-solving across Livity Africa’s internal and external campaigns and projects

Requirements

• Passion for graphic design and all things related: typography, imagery, colour, and layout
• Up-to-date with trends in the local creative industry
• Two to four year’s work experience
• Technical expertise: Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
• Intermediate web design skills (HTML, CSS)
• Research and conceptualisation skills
• Excellent attention to detail

Personal skills/attributes

• A positive attitude
• Hard working: self-driven, focused and dedicated
• Team player and open to being given direction
• Good communication skills
• Organised: keep to deadlines, work well under pressure

Company Description

Livity Africa is an innovative, fast-growing company that believes every young person should have a voice and a vocation. Through groundbreaking work with partners including Facebook, Red Bull, the Omidyar Network and the British Council, Livity Africa helps thousands of young people every year realise their potential in media, politics, digital skills and creative industries, amongst others.

Posted on 21 Dec 15:12

Our client, a major player in the chemical industry are looking for the services of a demand and capacity management specialist.

The successful candidate will be responsible for aligning capacity to business strategies and supporting operational targets, review current way of working and propose improvement plan with the goal of ensuring capacity is available and optimised, and capacity plans are properly executed, supports resource and capacity management input to sourcing models, and financial integrations, portfolio and project management office integration.

Skills and experience:

He/she will also be responsible to maintain and reviews status of resource gaps and excesses, and makes recommendations to drive improvements, develops ways to measure resource capacity levels that meet current and future business demand, define and maintain scheduling, dependency and interdependency standards and provide advice regarding available standards, procedures, methods, tools and techniques.

For more information please call Charlotte Molepo  011 262 4530 (Ext 4584).

Posted on 21 Dec 12:30