Overview
The Associate Communications Officer supports the daily operations, maintenance, and creative execution of digital platforms, focusing on visual storytelling, multimedia production, and editorial curation to enhance ADB's digital presence.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and produce graphics, illustrations, and design layouts for web landing pages, web features, and digital campaigns.
- Create visual ideas and creative concepts that enhance storytelling and user engagement.
- Produce and edit animations, video snippets, and interactive visuals.
- Curate web content for campaigns, country pages, and topical pages.
- Produce homepage updates, including header banners and video clips, which may require evening and weekend work.
- Suggest web design and layout improvements based on analytics and user feedback.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Communication Arts, Journalism or Broadcast Journalism, Visual Arts, Digital Media, Multimedia Arts or the equivalent; preferably with advanced training.
- Data storytelling skills.
- Knowledge of Tableau, R, Flourish or similar data visualization platforms.
- Practical experience of data visualization best practice.
- Understanding of responsive web design, data visualization story-telling formats (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/jQuery; knowledge of frontend libraries such as Bootstrap and Tailwind will be an advantage).
- A portfolio of projects turning data into insightful visuals.
- Good design skills including typography, layout, and data presentation.
- Experience with website content management systems (experience with Drupal is an advantage), infographics software, and digital marketing services.
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; able to handle numerous responsibilities and clients simultaneously.
