Information Design Specialist Vacancy at eHealth Africa

eHealth Africa (eHA) designs and implements data-driven solutions and technologies to improve health systems for and with local communities. eHA’s technology works in low connectivity settings, and smartly uses data to drive decision-making by local governments and partner agencies to get optimum results. We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below: Job Title: Information Design Specialist Location: Kano Job Summary

• The Information Design Specialist is responsible for providing information design support services.
• S/he should have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior design skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows, maps, charts and artifacts, and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional interactive visualizations.

• UI/UX, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite, Illustrator, OmniGraffle, HTML, CSS, JavaScript,  D3, Leaflet.

• Defines and implements innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience.
• Executes all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering.
• Develop and implement an information design requirements process for eHA to facilitate the request and tracking of information design support.
• Create and maintain an information design guide for eHA data analytics purposes.
• Provide information design training and assistance to eHA analysts and staff members to ensure information visualization is an integral part of their production processes.
• Presents and defends designs and deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders.
• Conducts user research and evaluates user feedback.
• Establishes and promotes design guidelines, best practices and standards.
• Work on the leading edge, with cross-functional teams, to define, develop, and drive data visualizations to enhance quantitative-based strategic decisions and insights.
• Creates illustrations, layouts, maps, posters, graphs and charts to better visualize information in support of finished intelligence products and briefings intended eHA partners.
• Creates original concepts with a focus on user-friendliness.
• Creates wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and sitemaps for mobile and web platforms.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in interaction design, new media design or related design field.
• 5+ years of experience in information design and visualization.
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite - InDesign, Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite, Illustrator, Fireworks; OmniGraffle, or other visual design and wireframing tools.
• Advanced knowledge of all aspects of the software development and data management life cycle (e.g. requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation) and associated execution models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, etc.).
• Extensive experience in information design and visualization, creating charts and powerpoint templates.
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and sitemaps.
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction​.
• Strong conceptual graphic designer, highly skilled at gathering raw data from various sources and developing comprehensive, visually engaging graphics.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (D3,  Leaflet, Google charts) for creating charts, maps and graphs.
• Demonstrable Information design and visualization skills with a strong portfolio.

• English is the spoken and written language.
• Ability to read, analyse, proof and edit documents, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, or government regulations.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, employees and the general public.