About this role
Project Slingshot is looking for a Junior Motion Designer. Project Slingshot is a global nonprofit working to end factory farming by exposing the lies, cruelty and power of Big Ag through disruptive campaigns.
As our Junior Motion Designer you'll help make our work impossible to scroll past by creating motion graphics and social-first edits that carry our campaigns across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Create motion graphics and animate typography, graphics and brand assets for campaign and social content
- Build simple, reusable templates for recurring content
- Support larger campaign films with additional motion design where needed
- Develop animations that feel polished, considered and on-brand
- Keep project files tidy, organised and easy for the wider team to pick up
- Create social-first edits for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and other platforms
- Add captions, sound design, transitions and graphics
- Adapt existing content into multiple formats and aspect ratios
- Produce fast-turnaround content without compromising on craft
- Help maintain a consistently high standard across all published content
- Bring references, trends and ideas into the team
- Keep an eye on emerging creators, editing styles, formats and platform behaviours
- Help ensure our work feels contemporary, culturally relevant and creatively ambitious
- Assist with documentaries, campaign films and experimental creative projects
- Work alongside experienced creatives and gradually take ownership of more ambitious work
Requirements
- Portfolio or showreel of motion and social-first video work from placement, internship, freelance work, studio, agency, in-house team or own projects
- Comfortable using Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro
- Strong eye for graphic design, typography, composition and pacing
- Understanding of how motion graphics, sound design, music and voiceover can elevate content
- Enjoys experimenting with new tools and workflows
- Curious about emerging creative technologies such as ElevenLabs, Runway and Midjourney
- Proactive, organised and happy sharing ideas in a small, fast-moving team
- Pays close attention to trends and to what audiences are actually responding to
- Excited to join the mission to end factory farming
How to apply
Submit your application via the application form on the Project Slingshot website. Include a link to examples of work or a portfolio. You are also welcome to submit a cover letter.