Junior Graphic Designer at TFG (The Foschini Group)

JOB DESCRIPTION

With a vision to create the most remarkable omnichannel experiences for our customers, the Foschini Group consists of 34 leading fashion retail brands, over 4600 stores and 46 000 employees and more than 30 million TFG Rewards customers.

The Junior Graphic Designer is responsible for the design of digital learning content. This entails effectively articulating the learning requirements of business, alignment with digital standards and developing these within the parameters of the learning platform and content management system. This role may interface with other internal business stakeholders and training vendors.

Key performance areas will be:

• Create visual boards from instructional design storyboards that will be used to build digital courses using the CMS (Content Management System)
• Analyse and interpret the Instructional Designer’s storyboards to design courses that will enable the learner to best meet the learning outcomes
• Follow design standards to ensure that course designs can be effectively and efficiently built using the CMS
• Follow CI for a wide selection of retail brands as well as corporate brand guidelines
• Prepare assets to be used in videos such as illustrations and other supporting visuals
• Perform basic video editing and enhance video with custom graphics
• Create assets to be used in animations built with rapid authoring animation applications like Vyond as well as industry standard animation suites like Adobe After Effects
• Engage with Instructional Designers and Content Developers to give feasibility and creative input into prospective course designs
• Scope design effort and meet deadlines

Requirements:

• 3 years’ experience in a design studio or agency space
• A qualification in graphic design and multimedia
• Exposure to digital learning methodologies would be preferred
• Proficient in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite with a focus on Illustrator
• Past Exposure to Vyond and/or After Effects preferred
• Experienced in applying good visual design principles, typography, good visual hierarchy, grid-based design, colour harmony, and gestalt
• An understanding of Learning Experience or Instructional Design