Company Profile: Candi is a dedicated solar partner for businesses across Asia and Africa. Combining the international capital of our Swiss-based platform with local expertise in these regions, we’re able to provide a unique offering to this underserved sector. In doing so, we aim to have a big social impact, reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, increase energy access, and save money for businesses of all sizes in emerging markets.
Our approach is to take the risk so our partners don’t have to, providing businesses with flexible, end-to-end solar and battery solutions that are built to last. Our shared value model leverages our experience in customisable finance and performance offerings, quality engineering, and data-enabled asset management to help guarantee optimised systems, lowering the barrier to entry and maximising returns. www.candi.solar
Job Summary: The company is looking to recruit a creative and detail-oriented Designer with 3 years of professional experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of design principles and be adept at working within existing brand guidelines. You will be responsible for creating and editing visual content, including social media posts and videos, using ready-made templates and ensuring all materials align with our brand identity.
Specifically, the job requires taking ownership of the following for the Global team:
- Design and edit visual content in line with Candi Solar's brand guidelines
- Use and modify ready-made templates for various marketing materials, ensuring they adhere to brand standards
- Create and edit social media posts, ensuring they are engaging and consistent with the brand’s voice and visual identity
- Edit video content for social media and other platforms, maintaining high quality and brand consistency
- Collaborate with the marketing team to develop creative concepts and campaigns
- Ensure all designs are optimized for digital platforms and are visually appealing
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in design and digital media
Location: Johannesburg or Cape Town (Hybrid role, combined with working from home)
Hours: Full time (Five days a week)
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field
- 3 years of professional design experience, preferably in the renewable energy or tech industry
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects) and other relevant design tools
- Experience with video editing software
- Strong understanding of social media platforms and the ability to create content tailored to each platform
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to follow brand guidelines
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong communication skills and the ability to take constructive feedback
- Familiarity with motion graphics and animation is a plus
Working Culture:
- You agree to live out the Candi values every day of your employment: this includes to put empathy before ego, being authentic no matter what, that we get it done as one and follow the Candi principle that less is more
- A dynamic, cross-functional team player, willing to take initiative on projects in the context of a multicultural scale-up trying to execute big, bold ideas.
- Having experience working for an international company, or having studied or worked abroad, is considered a plus.
- You must be open, honest, trustworthy, a strong communicator, and understand that what we get done as a team surpasses what we get done individually.
- Candi is an equal opportunities employer.
Candi is unique because...
- We focus on helping businesses of all sizes in emerging markets get access to cheap, clean rooftop solar energy.
- We have a strong emphasis on a client-centric & innovation-driven working culture.
- We are an international team where remote working is commonplace, where we trust our team members to actively carve out a role for themselves according to their skillset.
Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
