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Designer

Employer
Pratt Institute
Location
Brooklyn, NY

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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

Job Details

Designer

Location:
Brooklyn, NY
Open Date:
Aug 23, 2019
Description:

Be an important part of Pratt Institute’s growing dynamic and collaborative communications and marketing division. Help transform how the Institute engages with our community and shares our story of excellence in creative education with the world.

Pratt Institute’s Communications and Marketing division seeks a Designer who will be a key member of the Creative Services team. The Designer, under the supervision of the Creative Director and Senior Designer, will work in collaboration with our writing, digital, marketing, and client services teams, to produce attractive, user-centric, innovative designs for integrated, multi-platform use across Pratt’s Web, digital, and print media.

Responsibilities:

  • Assists the Creative Services team in applying the Pratt brand across projects for various departments of the Institute.
  • Collaborate with editors, writers, photographers, videographers, content developers, to build multi-platform communication strategies that continue to strengthen the Pratt brand.
  • Create print & digital materials for various stakeholders across the institute, including, but not limited to: posters, invitations, exhibition & event materials, websites, email templates, social media campaigns, and motion graphics.
  • Effectively communicate design concepts to supervisors and client departments.
  • Prepare files and print specifications for vendors.
  • Work with front end developers to build websites and online applications.
  • Assist in the management of student interns.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will be a deeply collaborative, multidisciplinary designer, with strong interpersonal skills, who is passionate about design and its impact, is a strategic thinker with a strong understanding of visual systems, will have impeccable design skills, experience managing multiple client projects and deadlines, and demonstrated ability to develop design concepts across multiple touch points consistent with desired project goals, messaging, and user experience.

Most importantly, the ideal candidate will be a strong conceptual thinker who creates visual solutions; an articulate communicator who can present and explain those concepts and solutions; and a nuanced collaborator who welcomes participation, gives and accepts constructive feedback, and thrives on the inspiration that comes from hearing all voices. We are committed to developing and sustaining a diverse and inclusive community, and to shaping an environment for teaching, learning, research, creative and professional work that advances this vision.

Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Communication Design or related field or equivalent experience is required.

Experience: 2+ years of experience designing print and digital projects, in-house or at an agency.

Skills

  • Exceptional concept, design, and typography skills.
  • Exceptional communication, presentation, and organizational skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment, while ensuring quality and timeliness.
  • Works well collaboratively, as well as independently.
  • Understands the value of critique, and knows when to defend design concepts.
  • Familiar with Human Centered Design principles and has the empathic ability to understand the experiences, needs, and desires of intended audiences.
  • Expertise in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects. Familiarity with Sketch is a plus.
  • Experience with UX design for mobile/web/digital platforms.
  • Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
  • Familiarity with higher education and art institutions is a plus.
  • Ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.

Application Instructions:

A digital and print portfolio demonstrating professional experience is a prerequisite for the application process. A cover letter, and resume are also required.

Please submit all your application materials online via the "Apply Now" button to the right. Applications must be submitted through this online process to be considered by the search committee, and selected candidates will be contacted through this process. No phone calls, LinkedIn messages, emails, or drop-ins, please.

Candidates selected for the interview process will be asked to provide five references via our on-line reference tool system, at least two of which must be references who have been your direct supervisor.

About Pratt Institute

Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is a global leader in higher education dedicated to preparing its 4,600 undergraduate and graduate students for successful careers in art, design, architecture, information, and liberal arts and sciences. Located in the cultural hub of New York City with historic campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Pratt is a living lab of craft and creativity with esteemed professors and scholars who challenge their talented students to transform their passion into meaningful expression.

About Pratt’s Communications and Marketing Division

At Pratt, we have a unique opportunity to build a collaborative communications and marketing model unlike most institutions of higher education, because our faculty and students, staff, and alumni/ae do the work of design and storytelling in everything they do. Partnering with our colleagues to promote their students and programs, to co‐own the Institute’s brand, and to develop effective new communications channels makes the work of Pratt’s Communications and Marketing team so much more resonant, innovative, and supportive to the Institute. Our team of talented experts in varied media is committed to providing the robust, multi‐channeled, and collaborative communications, and marketing operation our Institute deserves, reflecting the same level of creativity, design, collaboration, and problem solving that is expected from our students and faculty.

Organization

About Pratt Institute

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Pratt Institute is a coeducational, private, professional college offering associate, bachelor and master's degree programs in art and design, architecture and library science. The Institute has been educating professionals for productive careers in artistic and technical fields since its founding on its present site in Brooklyn in 1887 by the industrialist and philanthropist Charles Pratt. His revolutionary philosophy of education emphasized applied knowledge and the teaching of specific skills demanded by a growing industrial economy.

The Institute currently occupies 25 tree-filled acres in the landmark Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn-an historic residential district featuring turn-of-the-century brownstones, Victorian mansions and wide tree-canopied boulevards. Midtown Manhattan, the heart of New York City, is a 1/2-hour subway ride away and offers students a wealth of vocational, cultural and recreational opportunities. Pratt is the only college for art and design on the east coast that has a traditional enclosed campus with on-site student housing.pratt_institute1.jpg

Pratt is one of the largest undergraduate and graduate schools for art, design and architecture in the country and offers a wide range of cross discipline study options, dual degrees and major concentrations. The Institute houses five schools: Architecture, Art and Design, Information and Library Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professional Studies.pratt_institute2.jpg

The Institute's 25-acre campus contains twenty-four buildings, including landmark Romanesque and Renaissance Revival-style structures, clustered around spacious lawns and tree-canopied plazas. Sixteen buildings contain extensive studio, shop and technical facilities needed to support work in all media-from the traditional to the experimental. Five buildings are student residences. All have computer networking capacities and are Internet accessible. Computer labs, established with the most current equipment and the latest software, are available for instructional purposes and individual project use. Gallery space is extensive and the work of students, alumni, staff and other well-known artists is shown throughout the academic year. Pratt's Library, an historical landmark built in 1896, was the first fully automated academic library in the New York City area. Its art and architecture collection is excellent and contains approximately 208,000 volumes, 500 periodical and newspaper subscriptions, 66,000 slides, 190,000 pictures, 50,000 microforms, and 45,000 governmental documents.

The energy, foresight, money and spirit Charles Pratt gave to his dream remains even today. Here careers are molded, and goals, like those of Charles Pratt, are encouraged. Inscribed on the seal of the Institute is the motto: Be True To Your Work And Your Work Will Be True To You.

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