Office of Communications
OSI-New York

Application Deadline: May 30, 2008

The Open Society Institute works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve its mission, OSI seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI builds alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. OSI places a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of marginalized people and communities.

Investor and philanthropist George Soros in 1993 created OSI as a private operating and grantmaking foundation to support his foundations in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Those foundations were established, starting in 1984, to help countries make the transition from communism. OSI has expanded the activities of the Soros foundations network to encompass the United States and more than 60 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Each Soros foundation relies on the expertise of boards composed of eminent citizens who determine individual agendas based on local priorities.

The Web Designer is responsible for determining the best way to visually represent OSI's identity online. (S)he will be adept at synthesizing and translating raw ideas into clear, efficient, and beautiful designs for the award-winning website, Soros.org, as well as for other interactive projects. The Web Designer reports to OSI's Web Manager.

Primary Responsibilities

• Leads creative sessions for the redesign of Soros.org
• Conceptualizes and executes unique, standards-compliant web design solutions, independently and as part of a team, for a range of web projects
• Develops rich interactive (Flash) web interfaces with reusable components that can be carried across multiple products
• Prepares business requirement documents to convey information design and architecture (wireframes, storyboards, sitemaps, navigation, mockups, etc.)
• Produces and maintain design guidelines and standards for network web entities
• Applies a consistent visual language across multiple web properties
• Evaluates new techniques and design methodologies to support OSI's communications and advocacy strategies

Qualifications

• 3+ years web and multimedia design experience (visual and user interface)
• Superior design skills
• Advanced skills with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and other industry-standard graphics software
• Advanced knowledge of Flash and related scripting
• Proficient in InDesign as well as Visio or Omnigraffle
• Working knowledge (at least) of hand-coded HTML and CSS
• Working knowledge of JavaScript, PHP, and AJAX a plus
• Well versed in usability best practices as well as standards-compliant web development
• Excellent communications skills and detail oriented
• Interest in and/or knowledge of OSI program areas desired

Salary

Commensurate with experience and ability. Excellent benefit package.

To Apply

Email resume and cover letter before May 30, 2008 to humanresources@sorosny.org. Include job code in subject line: WEBDES/COMM

Open Society Institute
Human Resources, Code WEBDES/COMM
400 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019

No telephone inquiries, please. The Open Society Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer.