Visual Information Specialist

**Position**: Visual Information Specialist

**Location**:Sudbury

**Reports To**: Team Supervisor, Training and Resource Development

**Term**: Full time, permanent

**Salary Range**:$56,531-$60,000 annual + benefits

**Organizational Context**

The Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy (Oahas) is an Indigenous-led organization committed to promoting and supporting healthy, thriving Indigenous communities through providing culturally grounded education and access to harm reduction to reduce the transmission of HIV and other STBBIs in our communities. Oahas operates based on the principles of Greater Involvement of People living with HIV/AIDS (GIPA), Meaningful Engagement of People living with HIV/AIDS (MEPA), “nothing about us without us”, Indigenous harm reduction, and respect for our cultural knowledges and teachings. These foundational principles guide all aspects of our relationships and work.

**Organizational Values**

Oahas’ organizational values are Autonomy and self-determination, Accessibility, Innovation, Justice, Connection, Accountability, Hope and Advocacy. Based on our organizational values, we have developed agency-wide accountability behaviours that are shared with all Oahas staff and used as part of our performance evaluation tools. These include engaging in the work using direct communication, kindness, generosity of spirit, and respect.

**Position Summary**

Through the development of visual materials such as graphic assets, digital resources, and educational and training tools that support knowledge translation and mobilization, the Visual Information Specialist provides a critical function in creating and executing social media and print campaigns, capacity building and training opportunities for AIDS Service Organizations (ASO) sector partners, First Nations, and Indigenous health and social services organizations.

This position is located in **Sudbury**, **Ontario**, reports to the Team Supervisor, with the following areas of responsibilities: Graphic Design & Resource Development**, **Web Design, Social Media & E-Learning Administration, and Training Design & Visual Content Development.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Collaborate with Oahas management, staff and community (i.e. Community Advisory Committee or other community groups) on developing visual materials for projects and activities that strengthen Oahas’ programs and services
- Collaborate with teams and community to lead the design and development of visual concepts including resources, campaigns, presentations and training materials, and other graphic assets that are engaging, align with the organization's brand, centre learner accessibility, are relevant to Indigenous audiences, and support the principles of Indigenous harm reduction as well as Two-Spirit cultural safety, diversity and inclusion
- Create engaging, interactive digital learning solutions ensuring established learning and performance objectives are met
- Provide design and development leadership and/or industry knowledge and participate in knowledge transfer within the team

**Graphic Design & **Resource Development**
- Create and design visual content for various communications materials, including paper and digital brochures, agency-wide tools such as posters, and harm reduction kit inserts
- Create and produce illustrations and original artwork to supplement available graphic resources for numerous digital and print projects
- Create and produce graphic recordings of different Oahas events to support knowledge translation
- Engage with community connected to Oahas (i.e. Community Advisory Committee etc.) to get feedback on visual and design aspects of resource materials

**Web Design**, **Social Media** & E-Learning** **Administration**
- Manage content updates and communication material on website and social media channels, and ensure content is visible on mobile phones and tablets
- Engage with online community through reviewing and responding to posts
- Engage with community connected to Oahas (i.e. Community Advisory Committee etc.) to get feedback on visual and design aspects of the website and social media campaigns
- Support the redesign of Oahas’ website through developing the layout, menus, colours, background elements and photo and text alignment
- Manage Oahas’ current Two-Spirit Safer Spaces Training on kajabi
- Integrate new Oahas trainings into e-learning platform opportunities as needed

**Training Design **&** **Visual Content **Development**
- Review training program delivery methods and products; assess and make recommendations to improve overall design and graphics to better support knowledge translation
- Transform pre-existing educational and presentation materials to design and develop online instructional resources, and review, revise and re-format content from lessons and modules
- Develop digital activities, challenging scenarios, and assessment tools that are rooted in Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies
- Produce