Volunteer Animator

What will you be doing?

Role Description Africa Health Organisation (AHO) is looking for a disciplined and artistic with a firm grasp on animation techniques, fundamentals, and software. The animator will write and read through scripts and speak with the President to understand project needs, create storyboards and animations, and assist in the editing process. You should be collaborative, knowledgeable, and reliable. To be a successful animator, you should be adaptable, creative, and receptive to direction. You should have strong communication, interpersonal, and computer skills.   Duties and Responsibilities

Collaborating with the President and production team members to understand needs, write and review scripts, design storyboards, and create and edit animations. Using software and other techniques to produce health and medical animations. Listening to feedback and altering animations to better suit client needs. Ensuring that the final product aligns with the needs of AHO and is delivered on time. Presenting the final animated piece to AHO President for his approval. Using creativity and artistic techniques to tell a story or provide information in visual form. Researching industry trends and developments and learning new applications.

What are we looking for?

Skills and competencies

Degree in 3D design, animation, computer graphics, film and television, fine art, graphic design, illustration, and visual art, etc At least 3 years of 3D animation experience, animation design and sound compeling evidence and experience and use of Adobe Creative Suite General knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD, and Nuke/After Effects An understanding of aspect dynamics, animation rigging/set-up, and 3D character animation Knowledge of the software and hardware used in the post-production process Understanding of the Visual Effects and associated pipelines Skilled in designing new material that fits our target audience A strong portfolio of illustrations or other animations You will have a well-executed portfolio demonstrating excellent design principles in layout and typography

  Animator Qualifications / Skills:

Creativity Animation skills Graphic design skills Vision Developing creative standards Proficiency with illustration tools Desktop publishing skills Multimedia content development

What difference will you make?

The volunteer's impact on the organisation is increasing awareness for the charity to enable is carry out its projects in Africa. Since we don't have an animation design person, the Director does all the designing. The volunteer will be able to allow the Directors time to concentrate on managing the organisation and reduce stress from the Director by reducing his responsibilities. The organisation will be able to carry out its activities better with character animations to present health and medical topics. This will increase the morale of the staff if they know that they have animations to help them do their work. As for the impact on beneficiaries, this will be enormous. Our beneficiaries are people in Africa and UK with health and social care issues. We will be able to provide animations visual information in areas such as providing COVID-19, anti retroviral therapy to people with HIV/AIDS in Africa, mosquito nets distributed to prevent malaria especially for vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and children. We will be able to improve health and well-being for people with myraid conditions such as diabetes, cancers, kidney failure, etc. Most African countries do not have kidney dialysis facilities for kidney patients and we will be able to prevent unneccesary deaths. Having animations enable us to provide more information to people in humanitarian emergencies facing wars, diseases and starvation such as in South Sudan, Cameroon, Nigeria and Central African Republic. We will be able to improve the welfare of the people in emergency situation. We will also be able to prevent maternal deaths and infant mortality which are high in AFrica due to shortage of health service. In UK, the impact will be providing information in animations and help improving the lives of refugees and deprived communities