UI/UX Designer Returnee – Make an Impact – Remote

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Position : UI/UX Designer Returnee – Make an Impact! – Remote
Job Summary:
Returnship: Welcome back to the workforce! This job is specially tailored to a professional who took a long break after a life change/event, or is excited for a career change. You are an accomplished UI/UX designer who wants to give back to Tech for Good. You want to give back and make an impact. You may have a first career and want to do this as a second career, or, you are financially independent. We are excited to have you join our global team and help serve the world in philanthropy.UniversalGiving® is an award-winning nonprofit allowing people to donate and volunteer with top-performing, vetted organizations all over the world. 100% goes directly to the cause. All partner organizations are vetted with our proprietary Quality Model®. UniversalGiving® has been featured on the homepage of Bloomberg, Oprah.com, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. UniversalGiving® also has been featured in more than 16 books, including the new edition Harvard Business Review Book, HBR Guide to Delivering Effective Feedback, Arianna Huffington’s Thrive, and Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen’s Giving 2.0. We have also been acknowledged six times on Great Nonprofits’ annual Top Nonprofits lists and are highlighted in Huffington Post’s list of best volunteering matching websites. We continue to gain momentum, with dozens of articles in the Christian Science Monitor and monthly contributions on Forbes. To date, we have matched more than 22,000 volunteers worth $31 million dollars’ of volunteer hours.

Responsibilities:

Creating a robust/attractive/scalable component-based design for UniversalGiving®

Creating user experience deliverables including: wireframes, sitemaps, user flows, process flows, user scenarios, data diagrams, and clickable prototypes

Ensuring ideas translate to functional specifications, through entire development process

Ensuring all designs multi-platform: Complete functionality desktops, mobile, tablets, etc

Building visually compelling frameworks that convey concepts and actions in simple terms

Allowing the majority of UI to be editable by non-technical people through Content Management System (CMS)

Executing all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering

Duration and Location

The position is available part-time (5-20 hours per week)

Long-term commitment to UniversalGiving® and our mission

We provide remote positions with a highly globally focused team from more than 20 countries, including Russia, China, Japan, Ukraine, Georgia, the Philippines, Haiti, Germany, Canada, the Kurdish population, South Korea, the U.K., Brazil, Kenya and many more.

UniversalGiving® is committed to understanding and representing the diverse populations it serves worldwide. Members of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, nationalities, physical abilities or disabilities, religions or beliefs, and cultures are welcome as employees and volunteers in our organization. We believe that a diverse team will best serve our diverse populations. Please see our policy on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Our Vision is to “Create a World Where Giving and Volunteering Are a Natural Part of Everyday Life.”®
Required profile for job ad : UI/UX Designer Returnee – Make an Impact! – Remote
Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Must have E-Commerce website design experience

At least 5+ years of UI/UX design experience

Strong understanding of Human Centered/User Centric interaction design principles

Strong knowledge of HTML/CSS3/Javascript/ReactJS, and other web scripting languages

Experience working on Agile methodology and projects (Agile/Scrum development process)

Proven experience designing, architecting, and optimizing websites and/or applications, with a strong preference for consumer-facing transaction focused interfaces

Experience creating responsive designs on website, mobile, all platforms’ standard displays

Proficiency in Figma/Photoshop/Illustrator/OmniGraffle/Sketch/InVision, or other visual design and wireframing tools

A portfolio featuring examples of visual and interaction design work with a focus on process.

Job criteria for job ad : UI/UX Designer Returnee – Make an Impact! – Remote

Job category : IT, new technologies

Industries : IT, software engineering, Internet

Employment type : Part-time work

Region : Central – Chobe – Francistown – Gaborone – Ghanzi – Jwaneng – Kgalagadi – Kgatleng – Kweneng – Lobatse – Ngamiland – North-East – Orapa – Selebi-Phikwe – South-East – Southern – Sowa – International

City : Remote

Experience level : Less than 2 years

Educational level : Bachelor

Number of Position(s) : 2

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