What can you expect from a leading organization in the global movement to advance children’s rights and equality for girls?
Plan International Canada is the first non-profit organization to ever be inducted into Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures Hall of Fame by Waterstone Human Capital. Here's why: together, we have created a climate of trust and inclusivity - where diversity in people, ideas and approaches is not only respected, it's encouraged.
We remain agile amid an ever-changing global landscape. Though we continue to evolve, our mission and strategic ambition will not change - and our work has never been so imperative. We will never stop believing in the multiplying power of girls and that every child deserves that right to learn, lead, decide and thrive. Our future success will be founded upon Plan International Canada's 80+ year history of focusing on our mission, our core values, responding to challenges and seizing opportunities with purpose, relevance and impact.
Further information can be found at: plancanada.ca
Summary
Organization: Plan International Canada
Reports To: Senior Manager, Digital Communications
Location: Toronto (Mount Pleasant & Eglinton)
Status: Full-time, permanent
Contact Level: B
The Position
Join our team as a Senior Frontend Web Designer/Developer (Design Technologist).
If you're passionate about creating pixel-perfect web designs, skilled in building designs with HTML and CSS and JavaScript and have strong UX and UI design experience with a mobile-first mentality, read more to learn about this position.
In this role as the Senior Frontend Web Designer/Developer, you are both a skilled Interactive Designer and Frontend Tech Lead. You are responsible for understanding, documenting, and improving how we work with our website platform in collaboration with cross-functional teams and technical vendors. Equally important are your web design skills for this role, as you will be our senior web and user experience designer. This role requires both design and technical skills. If you are looking for a role where you can flex your design skills and your technical skills, read on for more details.
What success looks like?
As a member of our extensive team of digital marketing, content, brand and engagement professionals, reporting directly to the Senior Manager of Digital Engagement, you'll contribute to projects centred around a single website. These projects, involving multiple stakeholders, require close collaboration with a cross-functional team.
Read on to discover the critical requirements for success in this role.
As Our Ideal Candidate, You Will Have
Design and User Experience:
• Highly skilled in Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD) and experienced with InVision, Figma, Sketch, or similar tools.
• Create mocks, wireframes, and final designs for desktop and mobile, aligning with business, brand, and AODA requirements.
• Offer valuable design improvements based on UI/UX best practices.
• Design user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes for mobile and desktop experiences as required.
• Enhance our website's user experience by serving as the knowledge expert for all things related to user interface and experience design.
CMS Proficiency & HTML/CSS Mastery:
• Utilize your excellent HTML and CSS skills and JavaScript skills to reproduce approved designs expertly within our CMS. Create web pages that perfectly match approved designs while adhering to brand, business, and AODA requirements and web best practices.
• You're the go-to person for all things front-end on our website platform. You keep track of best practices, work with tech teams for improvements, and guide teams on what's possible with our tools
Website Health & Troubleshooting:
• You know how to use various debugging tools to audit and optimise your pages (LightHouse /SiteImprove or similar), and you always unit-test your work before you hand it off.
• Ensure our website stays in top shape—fast loading, search engine-friendly, mobile-responsive, and user-friendly.
Information Architecture Support:
• Assist with creating intuitive information architecture and site maps for quick and easy user access.
Nice to Have:
• International Non-Profit Experience.
• SiteCore Experience.
How To Apply
To express interest in this exciting opportunity, submit your resume and cover letter to https://plancanada.ca/apply by January 7, 2024.
Plan International Canada is a hybrid workplace. You will work from the office and at home.
Plan International Canada hires based on merit and is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community and to providing an inclusive workplace. Plan International Canada especially welcomes applications from Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women, persons of all sexual orientations and genders, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities.
If you have a disability that may affect your ability to perform in a role in which you are interested, we will be happy to discuss with you what adjustments or arrangements we can make to accommodate your needs.
If your disability is likely to affect you adversely within the application process itself, please let us know (as soon as you feel comfortable to do so) by emailing gethired@plancanada.ca so that we can consider any adjustments to the process that will allow you to be considered fairly for the role.
Consistent with our Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy, the successful candidate must receive clearance by a police background check, including the vulnerable sector screen.
Applicants must be eligible to work in Canada for the duration of the work term.
Proof of eligibility will be required
