South Africa: digital illustrator

Location: South Africa (work from home)

Hourly Rate: $5.5 US per hour

Hours of work: 20-37.5 hours per week

Recruiter: Hope Parkin

Are you an illustrator looking for career opportunities at Twinkl? Would you love to use your skills and experience to help those who teach?

You will be working with a team of writers, editors and designers to create a huge variety of learning resources that are used across the globe! Whether it be illustrations to increase engagement levels of students or to demonstrate a principle crucial to the student’s understanding, you’ll be contributing to Twinkl’s mission to ‘Help those who teach,’ and helping give learners worldwide a step up in life.

You will receive thorough training and support on how to create our resources whilst also learning about our Twinkl brand guidelines.

If you are interested in becoming part of the amazing Twinkl team, send us your CV and a portfolio of your best work (preferably demonstrating a variety of styles if possible).

Ongoing projects/how you’ll spend your day:

• Creating illustrations for the international team's resources.
• Skill share workshops and other related training activities.
• Weekly video meetings with your team and line manager.

In this role, you will learn:

• How to illustrate beautifully for a fast paced ever changing professional environment.
• How to make your contribution to a team count. You won’t just learn to be efficient, but also to be effective.
• A variety of Twinkl brand styles to service all ages of learners.
• Advanced and highly valued Photoshop skills.

You’ll work with:

• An international illustration team.
• One of our product teams.

How to apply:

Please send us an up-to-date CV in English and provide access to a portfolio of your best work (preferably demonstrating a variety of different styles if possible).

Your portfolio:

We are looking for candidates with a variety of different illustration styles that really showcase basic drawing skills. In particular, we want to see strong examples of line drawing and a good understanding of how to draw people and proportions/anatomy. We also need evidence of flexibility and adaptability to demonstrate that you would be capable of adopting the Twinkl brand styles which can be seen on our website.

We want to ensure that everyone has an equal chance to demonstrate their abilities to us. To let us know about any support/adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment process and information on how we will provide this, please use this form

Please note, any individual has the option to request reasonable adjustments. However, it is not mandatory when submitting your application.

Requirements

To succeed in the role, you will:

• Have the ability to draw to a predefined style.
• Be creative and imaginative.
• Be proficient in the use of Adobe Photoshop.
• Have the ability to research and pull out relevant information & ideas.
• Have strong drawing fundamentals.

We're interested in anyone who meets one, or a combination of the following:

• Degree or equivalent in illustration/other art and design-based subject.
• Experience in educational illustration.
• Experience in illustrating for children.

Equipment Checklist:

What you will need to provide:

• Reliable internet connection. Minimum speed: 16Mbs download, 8Mbs upload. 50ms average latency when pinging 8.8.8.8. Use speed checkers such as fast.com to check the connection.
• Your internet will need to be able to withstand a video call with 10 people, having camera and microphone on, with no connection issues.
• Adequate working space - ideally a desk that is at least 84cm across and 70cm deep.

Computer or laptop, minimum spec to allow all necessary programs and systems to run optimally:

• Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700
• 16Gb RAM
• 256GB SSD Hard drive
• Mouse
• Webcam and headphones including microphone

Drawing tablet:

• You will need a graphics tablet with or without a screen
• iPads and iPad pros are not suitable due to our workflow

When working it is essential that you have:

• Good working environment free from distractions
• Boundaries in place to separate work from home life

Nice to have but not essential:

• Due to the detail of the illustrations we create, it can be beneficial to have a second screen.

Twinkl will provide:

• Twinkl Google account (access to Gmail, Google calendar, sheets, etc).
• Access to Adobe account.
• Access to Microsoft Office.
• Twinkl Account.

Recruitment process:

1. apply for the role by submitting your CV and your digital illustration portfolio

2. you will be asked to disclose your available illustration equipment

3. you will be invited to complete an illustration task in Twinkl's brand style

4. you will be invited to a video interview with the team

Benefits

In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with plenty of career opportunities. Here’s a couple of the things that make Twinkl a great place to be:

• A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before process.
• Flexible working with opportunities to work from home.
• Diversity, inclusion and belonging - our Employee Network Program includes all kinds of various working groups, such as or Black and Minority Ethnic, Disabilities (visible and invisible), Women in Tech and Working Parents.. etc.
• Continuous Professional Development (CPD) - Our ever-evolving program includes: Monthly progression reviews, Twinkl’s Management Scheme, commercial awareness training, leadership coaching quads, career chats and mentoring.
• Collaboration across continents! You’ll plug into a global team working to help improve the lives of educators around the world.