Freelance Graphic Designer

What type of projects would you work on?

• Publication design and layout: you will be responsible for the layout and design production of our publications to ensure they project our work impactfully and effectively communicate the intended message. This includes executing layout compositions that organise text, images and other visual elements in a harmonious and aesthetically pleasing manner. Projects will range from small design tasks supporting individual research reports to larger, more comprehensive assignments spanning multiple initiatives.

• Collaboration and feedback across design projects: you will collaborate closely with internal teams across the organisation to understand project requirements, objectives, and constraints. This includes working with the Communications and Research teams to facilitate effective teamwork, idea exchange, and project coordination.

• Conceptualising and developing visuals across our online and offline platforms: support the Communications team in developing and maintaining all visuals for internal and external communication, including digital assets for our media and online campaigns, newsletters, event agendas banners, business cards, posters etc.

• Maintaining visual branding and identity: ensuring consistency across all brand assets and collateral to establish strong brand identity and recognition in the market.

• Website: our website is externally managed, but you will be required to collaborate with the agency to ensure visual language across our website and publications is harmonious.

• Image editing and manipulation: optimising images and visuals you have designed for various media formats and resolutions while maintaining visual integrity and file size efficiency.

Your will work closely with the Communications Team, and you will be pivotal in elevating our content and widening our impact. With a creative, convincing personality, and mindset with a hands-on attitude, you will be able to spark developments and improvements through innovative approaches and techniques that deliver fresh and engaging design solutions. 

Experience and qualifications

• Essential: 3-4 years’ experience working in graphic design, preferably with publication layout experience.

• Essential: Ability to conceptualise and create compelling visuals based on data and technical concepts, including graphs, visual spreads and infographics that make complex ideas more accessible. 

• Essential: Proficiency in industry-standard design software, such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign).

• Proactive and solutions-driven: as you encounter design challenges and obstacles during the creative process you will be required to think critically and have excellent problem-solving skills, offering creative solutions and collaborating with the team to meet project objectives.

• Effective communication skills: collaboration is central to your role, and you will need to understand project briefs, articulate design concepts and collaborate with team members throughout the design process.

• Willingness to learn about our data-specific design tools with the assistance of our in-house designer.

• Highly proficient in English

The Foundation’s working hours are 09:00 – 17:30 CET, and the freelance designer will be expected to work within these hours.

About the Foundation

The Access to Medicine Foundation is an independent non-profit organisation, based in Amsterdam, that seeks to transform the global healthcare ecosystem by motivating and mobilising companies to expand access to their essential healthcare products in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The core pillar of our work is analysing how pharmaceutical companies and other essential healthcare companies currently address the affordability and accessibility of their products in these countries, and highlighting gaps, best practices and opportunities. To translate our research into real-world change, we engage with a wide network of global health stakeholders, including pharmaceutical companies, governments, international agencies such as the United Nations and World Health Organization, media, and investors.

Get a sense of our publications and research reports.  

How to apply

Interested in this exciting opportunity? Please send the following documents to us at info@accesstomedicinefoundation.org

• Your portfolio

• Your resume

Please note: Due to the high level of interest in working with the Access to Medicine Foundation, we may not be able to respond to every inquiry. If you have not heard from us within two weeks, please consider that we won’t be moving forward at this time.