Graphic Designer Position in CrowdDoing, Medicinal Foods Marketing

Graphic Designer/Package Designer /Subscription Box Designer Virtual Volunteer Position for CrowdDoing

Project:Medicinal Foods for Stress, Sleep and Anxiety

CrowdDoing is a global virtual collaboration to research medicinal foods for stress, sleep and anxiety. Our project has the goal of advancing integration across fields of research and to build medicinal foods literacies in the population.

Medicinal Foods for Stress, Sleep and Anxiety is recruiting a Volunteering for Medicinal Foods, CrowdDoing.We're helping to build medicinal foods literacy and citizen science of foods & herbs for Stress, Sleep and Anxiety.CrowdDoing.world's Foods.& Herbs for Stress,Sleep & Anxiety Initiative aims to give people agency by educating people about their options with regards to their natural remedies for these aspects of their mental health. We do so by analyzing scientific research and clinical evidence, gathering new evidence through data science and citizen science, and recommending to individuals optimal combinations of teas, tinctures, and powders that can be used to achieve each individual's mental health goals. We conduct this research with the goal of allowing people to make informed decisions about their health and to increase access to healthy stress-coping alternatives. These healthy coping mechanisms can reduce reliance on harmful self-medication practices such as alcohol abuse or behavior likely to lead to opioid addiction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop brand identity, including typography, photography, graphic and brand standards, and produce packaging structure designs that meet brand aesthetics while showcasing and protecting the product

Experience with package design, including creating dielines and prototypes, is a must for a package designer position. This person must have a strong portfolio with a variety of samples that demonstrates their creativity, attention to detail and knowledge of market and consumer trends. Familiarity with different packaging materials is helpful.

• Ability to create compelling, disruptive yet elevated design work
• Concept and ideas product designs in line with business needs and market trends
• Strong focus on social/e-commerce when it comes to packaging design
• Work within budget and on time with cross functional partners across Operations, Marketing and Product Development

Required Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree required; degree in Graphic/Visual Design preferred
• 1+ years of visual design experience focusing on brand development and packaging, digital ads, print collateral.

A bachelor’s degree in graphic design or industrial design may be preferred, and successful candidates have a strong knowledge of creative tools, including Adobe Creative Suite, 3D software programs and photography.

• Online portfolio showcasing past work samples and design ability (required), to demonstrate great design and layout skills and well-developed typography skills
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premier, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign
• Understand differentiated, innovative packaging and how to design packaging for a mobile-first world
• Keen understanding of current trends in emerging technologies
• Passion and ability to learn new skills and adapt in a fast-paced environment
• Reliable under pressure and disciplined with time management and organization
• Exceptional communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work creatively with people across multiple departments
• Personal desire to keep up with current design trends, standards and standard methodologies

Virtual catch up meeting every week with the teams

Comfortable working in a startup phase non-profit organization

The only way CrowdDoing.world can realize its impact potential is through virtual volunteers,service learners(http://blog.reframeit.com/service-learning-and-skilled-volunteering/), and micro-leaders (https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/) coming together.

See this brief video aboutMicro-leadership at CrowdDoing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdB2YJ8Ocs&app=desktop). Micro-leadership means that each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society through collaborating on that area creatively individually and together through social innovation.

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You can see a CrowdDoing Volunteering FAQ here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zCkbEQX8PHh8k85BS0iIhsJJxADqdH3Kpn1PDbI1Uno/edit?usp=sharing

For questions and correspondence regarding codesigning a perfect volunteer role for yourself in the CrowdDoing systems change venture lab please email: "Journey.ikigai@crowddoing.world"