Graphic Designer - H - Abacus

Abacus Staffing, a leading provider of comprehensive employment/placement solutions, is seeking market talent. We offer meaningful and long-term employment opportunities, competitive pay structure and outstanding customer service to a workforce of more than 20,000, nationally.

Job Title: Graphic Designer (Photographer)
Job Locations: City of Virginia Beach, Parks and Recreation
Virginia Beach, VA
Schedule: Monday- Friday varied hours
Pay Rate: $22.98 hourly.


Overview:
Photographs city events and members in a positive, creative manner for city, local, state and regional publications; performs all aspects of photographic production from initial concept through final production; operates all types of photographic production equipment including digital cameras, lighting equipment, and photo editing software; manages and maintains the city’s repository of photographic images; maintains photographic supply inventory; maintains an online current and archival repository of digital photos; maintains a thumbnail catalog of all online digital photos; recruits and trains volunteers to help photograph events; assigns and directs volunteer photographers; coordinates and schedules photo shoots; meets with city and school representatives and recommends the best method and format to achieve desired results. Assumes on-call (ALPHA) status in case of emergency and/or inclement weather to provide photography services as required.

Works with the department to provide graphic design and marketing materials for addressing issues and promoting programs, services or events; provides artistic services for internal and external communication materials including brochures, newsletters, displays, presentations, advertisements, logos and other materials; develops and coordinates graphic concepts and conducts research to determine the priority, method and materials to be used; prepares preliminary layouts, conceptual schematic studies and freehand perspectives relating to departmental goals; uses computer systems, various software applications and other graphic arts media to produce visuals or proofs of the final products in single to full color separations.

Provides graphic design support for the city’s web sites, which can include design of site styles, page layouts, information architecture, navigation schema, online graphics, advertisements, multimedia and related materials; collaborates with web team and internal customers in developing site designs; works directly with programmers to ensure compliance in technical issues; develops custom text and graphic content and adapts existing content to a web-friendly format; creates graphics, page layouts and design templates for city web sites to enhance and maintain the city’s web presence and online marketing efforts.

Prepares graphic illustrations of raw data from sketches, diagrams or oral instructions, by hand drawing or using desktop publishing software; performs additional graphic art and drafting work as required. Perform other job duties requiring skills, knowledge and physical requirements as demanded by those duties described or less. Individual assignments will be determined by the supervisor based on current workloads and department needs.

Job Duties:
• Candidate must have experience with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign. If they have experience in Adobe After Effects or Adobe Premiere that would be a plus but not necessary.

Requirements:
• Requires any combination of education (above high school level) and/or experience and training equivalent to three (3) years in at least two of the areas of photography, graphic design, graphic art, and web page design providing the required knowledge, skills and abilities and associated with such positions as photographer, graphic designer, creative designer, graphic artist, web designer, or photojournalist.

Weekly pay and benefits available!
Abacus Staffing
Visit us: 360 Southport Circle, Suite102 Virginia Beach, VA 23452
Contact us: (757) 495-3145 (text or call)
Apply at: www.abacusonline.jobs

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Why Abacus?

• Competitive Pay Rates
• Excellent Culture
• Meaningful Employment
• Potential for Growth

When you apply, your experience may be considered across business verticals:

• Abacus Staffing – Multi-Client General Staffing
• Abacus Solution Group – Professional Placement
• Harrison Richard Group – Accounting & Finance
• Abacus Security Services

Employment opportunities include a wide range of placement options: project-based, temporary to permanent hire, part-time, contract-basis, direct hire and on-demand placement.

Ideal Candidate will possess:

• Minimum of 6 months experience in this position
• Flexibility to align your experience with a broad range of assignments
• Meet physical, aptitude, educational and minimum experience criteria

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