YLabs

Communications Design Lead

YLabs

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Rwanda

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Salary

💰 $111 - $127 per day

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Design high-fidelity frameworks, toolkits, and visuals that support strategic decision-making, learning, and alignment across internal teams, partners, and funders.
  • Translate complex research, program models, and frameworks into clear, accessible visual tools and toolkits.
  • Apply strong fluency in fundamental visual design principles (layout, hierarchy, typography, color, accessibility) to guide design processes from concept through execution.
  • Guide processes for understanding user needs, preferences, and behaviors, and organize these insights to inform design decisions that are aligned with organizational goals and contextual realities, ensuring design outputs are usable and adaptable.
  • Maintain consistency with existing brand and visual systems while extending them thoughtfully to support new frameworks and tools.
  • Design intuitive, accessible, and aesthetically coherent interfaces and front-end visual experiences where UI/UX skills are transferable to frameworks, tools, and digital outputs.
  • Deliver detailed toolkits, visual synthesis of research findings, insights, and reports, service design roadmaps, advanced journey maps, design templates or systems that can be reused and adapted by internal teams, data visualization/infographics, systems maps, and any task output formally delegated by the key contact person.

Requirements

  • Strong background in communication design.
  • Proven experience designing frameworks and tools, with the ability to synthesize complex research, systems, or strategies.
  • Ability to translate abstract or ambiguous concepts into clear, structured and informative visuals.
  • Advanced proficiency in collaborative design tools (e.g., Adobe, Mural, Figma).
  • Experience collaborating and effectively communicating with multidisciplinary teams, including researchers, academics, creatives, and C-suite leadership.
  • Portfolio demonstrating high-fidelity frameworks, sensemaking, strategy, and visual communication (not solely branding or marketing work).
  • Experience working in innovation labs, impact labs, social impact organizations, or global development contexts.
  • Experience designing for diverse, global, or low-resource contexts, with demonstrated experience in African contexts, including work that reflects local realities, constraints, and cultural nuance.
  • Understanding and advocacy of accessibility and inclusive design principles.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
visual design principlesdesign frameworkstoolkitsdata visualizationinfographicsuser experience designaccessibility designcommunication designsynthesis of researchdesign templates
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationuser needs understandingadaptabilitystrategic decision-makingorganizational alignmentcreativityproblem-solvingmultidisciplinary teamworkcultural sensitivity