Job Description

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Collaborate with authors, editors and publisher to conceptualise and create high-impact visual content that enhances student understanding.
• Lay out crisp, clean textbooks, observing cognitive load theory principles.
• Create infographics, diagrams, charts, illustrations, and educational cartoons that convey complex ideas simply and elegantly.
• Maintain visual identity and branding consistently across publications.
• Balance aesthetic appeal with functional readability across formats.
• Review and improve existing graphics and layouts to meet pedagogic standards.
• Stay updated on best practice in educational psychology, visual literacy, and accessibility.

Key skills:

• Able to translate academic content into clear visual explanations.
• Fluent in layout design, typography, and creation of infographics and other instructional visuals.
• Deep understanding of dual coding and cognitive load theory, visual hierarchy, chunking.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop); experience with Kotobee or similar publishing platforms a bonus.
• Experience with multicolumn textbook formats, captioning, glossary integration, and responsive digital layout.
• Exceptional attention to detail and version control.
• Familiarity with cross-platform digital delivery.
• Basic understanding of XML tagging, LaTeX, or accessible PDF structure a plus

Requirements:

• Eye for detail.
• Tertiary qualification in graphic design or related field.
• At least three years experience in higher education publishing.
• Strategic thinker who values clarity over clutter.
• Comfortable receiving and integrating feedback from academics, editors, and students.
• Able to juggle multiple projects in face of tight timelines.
• Flexible where needed.
• Always willing to go the extra mile.

Skills Required