What are the responsibilities and job description for the Visual Media Specialist (2023-0114) position at Acclaim Technical Services?
Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow. We are actively hiring a Visual Media Specialist to support the U.S. Government working in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
Education:
• Bachelor of Fine Arts (preferred)
• Bachelor of Arts (acceptable if course work is fine art and design)
Job Description:
Support desktop publishing and page layout for print and electronic publications, content development, and maintenance for websites and other electronic media. Provide graphic development support for other creative media products. Create, edit, and publish products for print, mobile, and web supporting information dissemination. Content development, editing, publication design, graphic design, and basic website development. Conceptualizing, designing, and producing visual solutions for a wide variety of products. Create and publish products for print, video, and interactive that will be disseminated across the Intelligence Community. Work as a member of a team focusing on one or more specialties, such as graphic design, publication design, motion graphics, video, and user interface (UI) and user experience (UX).
Specific duties for this position include:
• Creating publications from scratch or from pre-defined specifications
• Developing new product templates
• Writing, editing, and formatting content for publications and websites
• Document conversion for multiple output formats (print, web, and mobile)
• Developing and maintaining websites on the internet or various intranets
• Ensuring consistent application of style, typography, and other design elements to products
• Managing time and deliverables within the scope of a production schedule
Work with a team of electronic publishers within a studio environment
* Designing corporate identity and collateral
* Designing brochures, publications, and campaigns
* Designing promotional material, exhibits and displays, and signage
* Engaging in UI and UX explorations and development for web and interactive products
* Engaging with developers and programmers to deliver and maintain websites on the internet or various intranets
* Crafting storylines and storyboards for motion and video products
* Conducting basic video production and post-production to tell a compelling story
* Ensuring appropriate application of style, typography, hierarchy, and pacing to products across multiple media
* Analyzing and translating customer requirements into actionable project objectives
* Managing time and deliverables within the scope of a production schedule
Minimum Qualifications:
*Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining the U.S. Government, including US Citizenship and a background investigation
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action
ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law. It is the policy of ATS not merely to refrain from employment discrimination as required by the various federal, state, and local enactments, but to take positive affirmative action to realize for women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans full equal employment opportunity. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.
