3-Month Contract Beginning April 2023
Elva Resa is hiring a Design and Production Artist for a 3-month contract to support our team with a variety of defined design and production projects. If you are a creative professional looking for fun, meaningful work with an award-winning, established publisher, we look forward to talking with you!
Elva Resa is a traditional-model, mission-based independent publisher specializing in quality resources by, for, and about military families. Our team is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, accessible workspace, and we invite and encourage candidates of all identities and communities to apply. Details about this opportunity:
Contract terms:
- Work for hire
- 3 months, ideally April 2023 start (potential for additional contracts)
- $15,000 (3 payments of $5,000)
- Full-time project load; flexible schedule to meet agreed-upon deadlines
- Remote work from anywhere; contractor’s own equipment/software
- Collaboration via phone, email, Dropbox, and video calls (Central Time) with team and authors/artists as needed (~weekly)
Ideal candidate has the following exceptional skills and experience:
- Designing book interiors and covers for children, teens, adults
- Producing prepress files for print and ebook
- Creating supporting marketing materials
- Team collaboration and communication; project management; meeting deadlines
- Art direction, guiding artists to create storyboards, sketches, and final artwork
- Creative eye for font selection and visual storytelling
- Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator
Bonus if you have direct military life experience.
Selected contractor will collaborate with a cross-functional team on deliverables:
- Design covers and interiors of a select list of forthcoming nonfiction and fiction adult, teen, middle grade, and children’s picture books
- Provide art direction to illustrators working on forthcoming picture books
- Produce supporting marketing materials, including catalogs, sales sheets, Amazon A+ content, visual social media and exhibit materials
- Conduct DEIA content assessments
- Produce prepress files, including source art/design, InDesign production files, and image, font, and color management
If this sounds like the right fit for you, please send a letter with a summary of your applicable experience as outlined above, connection (if any) to military life, samples of your work or a link to your portfolio, and your available start date (ideally by mid-April), to jobs [@] elvaresa.com. Selected contractor will be asked to sign a WHF agreement. Letters and portfolios will be reviewed as received. We will respond to all by April 8. Thanks for your interest!