Senior Art Director

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference.
 

We need your special ability to see how different design elements, copy, colors, and fonts can work in concert to deliver communications that are powerful, persuasive, and boldly creative – and provide leadership within the team and on the account. We need the entire campaign or suite of designs to build off each other, increasing the impact for anyone experiencing it. We need you – your seasoned experience, striking talent, hard work ethic and superlative people skills.

Additionally, You’ve worked in the transportation sector before, partnering with federal, state or city clients on work specific to moving people or goods and service around the country. Examples might include public transportation campaigns, intermodal transport, traffic and safety initiatives, urban sprawl and accessibility marketing or communications from the auto industry beyond their product sales.
 

If this sounds like you, join our growing ICF Next Creative Studio of mission-driven creatives, communicators, strategists, and technologists who love what we do. We’re rapidly putting ICF Next on the map as the DC metro area’s premier creative shop. We’re no stranger to award shows, and yet we remain grounded in doing meaningful work for clients who are trying to make a positive change in the world. Send your resume and a link to your portfolio.

As a Senior Art Director, you will:

• Help lead a team of designers and other crafters under a concept and creative strategy to flawless execution.
• Work closely with ACD and CD on projects as a collaborator and leader.
• Be responsible for translating brand vision and strategy into innovative campaigns that engage with targeted audiences.
• Support public and private sector clients who tackle issues like HIV/AIDS, disaster preparedness, human trafficking, climate change, child welfare, and more.
• Execute designs based on creative briefs or brainstorming sessions and follow agreed schedules.
• Translate design concepts to web and print mediums.
• Design complex visualizations, data-driven projects, and infographics.
• Be an expert in understanding requirements that create engaging experiences.
• Have the ability to communicate and present ideas to internal and external clients.
• Present or oversee the presentation of final concepts and coordinate production and dissemination for cross-organizational use.
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