Call for IPSF Design Coordinator 2013-14

IPSF Coordinators work under the IPSF Executive Committee and their work is more specific to certain activities. These positions require little travelling, but it is strongly recommended to attend the 60th IPSF World Congress 2014 in Porto, Portugal. You should be able to work on a daily basis throughout the year in your position and have regular internet access. Coordinator positions have different busy times or seasons, but you must be reachable throughout your entire term. If you are interested in the position listed here, you should contact the relevant IPSF Executive (contact below) before the deadline for applications. IPSF is looking for applicants for the following positions: IPSF Design Coordinator (DC) 2013-14 Please submit your nomination form to secgen@ipsf.org and publications@ipsf.org no later than Wednesday, 5th February 2014, 23:59h, GMT+1. Design Coordinator (DC) The Design Coordinator is the chair of the Design and Creativity Committee (DCC) and is in charge of task delegation, working as a contact person between the Chairperson of Media and Publications and the DCC. The DC is the implementer of the communication and branding strategies of the Chairperson. For instance, he can be responsible with inserting the publication articles in the templates provided by the Chairperson or design materials based on the branding created by the Chairperson. Applicants should have extensive experience in using common graphic design tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and most importantly Adobe InDesign. IPSF does not have licenses to any design software. Since this is a new position, it is hard to calculate the workload. Although, you should consider this to be a quite heavy workload position, since you will be working very closely with the Chairperson of Media and Publications. It can be managed with your studies, but probably not if youre counting on having a busy academic year (research project, thesis or other). For more information, contact publications@ipsf.org.

IPSF Secretariat: Andries Bickerweg 5, P.O. Box 84200, 2508 AE The Hague, The Netherlands. Tel: +31-70-302 19 92 - Fax: +31-70-302 19 99 - Email: ipsf@ipsf.org - Website: www.ipsf.org Registered under Dutch Law: 40413709

Additional Information on the duties of the Design and Creativity Committee (DCC): NOTE: The positions in the Design and Creativity Committee are NOT vacant. Applications to these positions will not be considered as valid.

The DCC is chaired by the Design Coordinator (new position) and is responsible with completing design and media tasks. Although this is a Committee, work is usually carried out in individual tasks based on the members aptitudes and skills in different kinds of media. For instance, people with video editing skills are chosen to edit videos (that can be requested from any portfolio of the Federation) and people who are better at web design will be chosen to help with website management. Applicants should have extensive experience in using common graphic design tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and most importantly Adobe InDesign and/or video editing tools. IPSF does not have licenses to any design software. The Regional Media and Publications Officers are also members of the DCC and are supposed to help with regional projects as well as others in case they are so requested. NOTE: The positions in the Design and Creativity Committee are NOT vacant. Applications to these positions will not be considered as valid.

IPSF Secretariat: Andries Bickerweg 5, P.O. Box 84200, 2508 AE The Hague, The Netherlands. Tel: +31-70-302 19 92 - Fax: +31-70-302 19 99 - Email: ipsf@ipsf.org - Website: www.ipsf.org Registered under Dutch Law: 40413709