Junior Graphic Designer - AKRF : Job Details

Founded in 1981, AKRF is an award-winning consulting firm with 400 professionals bringing the value of strategic thinking to our land development, transportation, energy, and water clients. We serve our clients through a commitment to technical excellence across our portfolio of professional services, while always acting with integrity and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and environmental stewardship. Offices are located throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Connecticut, and the company completes projects around the country. Professionals join and remain at AKRF for our corporate-casual environment that values flexible work schedules and locations, and balances award-winning planning, engineering, and environmental projects with social impact initiatives, charitable giving, and plenty of fun and games. Our cookie exchanges and ice cream socials are quite the treat. AKRF is hiring an entry-level graphic designer in the New York City office as part of the firm's centralized marketing team. The designer will work with the creative director and two senior graphic designers. Job Responsibilities:

• Implement the firm's visual identity in print, digital, and physical uses for all corporate marketing needs.
• Produce marketing deliverables such as proposal graphics, tear sheets, presentations, ads, flyers, posters, and more.
• Design graphics and page layouts for client deliverables such as technical reports, presentations, and community outreach materials.
• Edit and retouch photos. Proficiency with photography would be a plus.
• Support production needs like printing and cutting business cards, mounting presentation boards, printing and binding hardcopy deliverables, and similar activities.

Essential Requirements:

• Accredited college degree in graphic design or a related discipline.
• 0-1 years of graphic design experience
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite-specifically InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat-along with MS PowerPoint.
• Exhibit a high level of creativity.
• Commitment to quality control and attention to detail.

What AKRF is offering: We provide employees with a benefit package that reflects our respect for your workplace contributions, professional goals, and personal priorities. The benefits program at AKRF includes:

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
• Vacation and Sick time
• Flexible work schedules and locations
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching
• Additional Voluntary Life Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Training and professional development courses
• Opportunities for community outreach through internal networks
• Charitable donation match
• Transit/parking program

Compensation will range from $60K-$70K, commensurate with experience. AKRF enforces a policy of equal employment opportunity in our daily operations. The firm has a demonstrated history of hiring, training, developing, promoting and retaining minority group members and women. All employment-related decisions are based solely on relevant criteria and without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status or citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.