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Web Designer Intern

Great River Learning

Web Designer Intern

Dubuque, IA
Internship
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Great River Learning is searching for our newest Web Designer Intern! This internship allows you to use your creative skills to craft accessible, engaging, and modern design materials for both print and digital media. Our ideal intern will have availability to work 10 - 15 hours a week, depending on their schedule. Your schedule must allow you to work this spring semester, as well as the summer of 2021. Depending on circumstances, we may consider this role to do remote work. However, we will do a bulk of our training in person.

    We are looking for students who have a high interest in web designing and Great River Learning as a company. We hope with extensive training this intern could become a full time employee with us after graduation!

    WHO ARE WE?

    GREAT RIVER LEARNING (GRL) is an established, interactive higher education publisher that focuses on developing engaging publications by integrating videos, animations, and interactive exercises. We see enormous business opportunity because we know most students don't read traditional 900-page textbooks...unless they're cramming for a test. We develop next-generation textbooks that are well designed, interactive, and media-rich. Our employees are driven and passionate about excelling, learning, having fun, and making the world a better place by helping to improve the experience of both college-level students and professors. Learn more by visiting us at www.greatriverlearning.com.

    WHAT DOES A TYPICAL WORK WEEK LOOK LIKE?

    • You will create web designs for online books in GRL's content management platform using HTML and CSS
    • Understands and employs UX best practices to build web designs that are easy to use and accessible to all users.
    • Manages design versions and variations with GIT version control management system
    • Creates custom print cover designs for GRL print books and ebooks
    • Designs digital and print marketing pieces
    • Uses digital graphic design skills to sketch diagrams, infographics, and simple illustrations using photo/graphic editing software (e.g. Illustrator)
    • Performs additional duties and other responsibilities as assigned

    This is an ideal opportunity for a student majoring in Graphic Design, Web Design, or Marketing (with coursework in web design and computer sciences). We are looking for someone who has strong written and verbal communication, graphic design and problem solving skills. We are looking for someone passionate about learning and researching. We want to help expand your web designing skills. Applicant must have experience using PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver or similar web development tools, as well as, HTML and CSS.

    If you're interested in this opportunity, please submit your resume and cover letter. If you have any web designing work, please send that over as well.

    Equal Opportunity Employer

    M/F/D/V