Volunteer Lead Illustrator role creating ethical, culturally responsive visuals that reflect youth leadership and wellbeing. Collaborate with the creative team to deliver brand‑aligned illustrations for campaigns and toolkits. Flexible, project‑based, supporting global youth voice.
What difference will you make?
Your contribution will strengthen ethical, dignity‑centred visual storytelling across all programmes and global hubs. Your illustrations will ensure youth voice, cultural responsiveness and safeguarding principles are consistently reflected in every campaign, toolkit and communication asset.
You will help maintain a strong, professional and recognisable brand identity, increasing trust with schools, partners and communities. By translating complex wellbeing and leadership themes into accessible visuals, you will improve engagement and clarity across digital and print platforms.
Your creative input will elevate the quality, consistency and impact of our communications, supporting partnership development, programme visibility and long‑term sustainability while protecting the integrity of the movement.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for a proactive professional who thrives in a fast‑paced, international social enterprise environment. The volunteer should have strong illustration or graphic design experience, with the ability to create clear, engaging visuals that communicate complex youth leadership and wellbeing themes. They should understand how to follow and apply brand guidelines to maintain visual consistency across campaigns and toolkits. Familiarity with tools such as Canva, Adobe Creative Suite or similar design platforms would be beneficial.
We are looking for someone creative and thoughtful, with strong visual storytelling skills and attention to detail. Experience working in education, youth‑focused settings or social impact organisations is desirable but not essential.
Essential Skills
* Strong illustration or graphic design ability
* Ability to follow and apply brand guidelines
* Strong visual storytelling skills
* Attention to detail and consistency
* Clear communication and collaboration skills
Experience
* Demonstrated experience creating illustrations or visual content
* Experience contributing to campaigns, toolkits or digital materials
* Working with structured brand systems
Desirable Skills
* Experience in education, youth or social impact settings
* Understanding of safeguarding‑informed communications
* Familiarity with Canva, Adobe Creative Suite or similar tools
* Experience collaborating within creative or marketing teams
Personal Attributes
* Creative and imaginative
* Values‑driven and ethical
* Culturally responsive and respectful
* Open to feedback and collaboration
* Committed to representing young people with dignity
Hybrid
What will you be doing?
eduSOIL is delivering complex, multi‑layered, volunteer‑enabled programmes that span onsite delivery in schools and communities, online learning, wellbeing practice, virtual youth exchange, youth social action and international collaboration in post‑conflict societies as well as with conflict affected communities.
Lead Illustrator responsibilities
* Create brand‑aligned illustrations for campaigns and toolkits
* Develop consistent character styles and visual themes
* Translate youth leadership and wellbeing concepts into clear visuals
* Follow safeguarding and consent‑centred guidelines
* Collaborate with Brand Director and Marketing team
Their contribution will
* Strengthen ethical, youth‑centred storytelling
* Ensure visual consistency across platforms
* Enhance engagement through accessible imagery
* Protect dignity and cultural representation
* Elevate the overall quality of creative outputs
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