Seasonal Positions
SFFILM Request for Proposal and Quotes: 2024/2025 Graphic Design Services Scope of Work
SFFILM is seeking a Graphic Designer independent consultant or firm to develop and design the creation of visual assets for SFFILM’s primary event campaigns in late 2024 and early 2025, including Doc Stories, and the San Francisco International Festival.
The contract will be project-based and determined by consultant availability, but could involve working closely with SFFILM’s Marketing & Communications Project Manager to produce a wide array of media that advances the mission and brand of SFFILM through creative, strategic, and top-notch design.
We are seeking emerging and established designer and designer teams eager to demonstrate strong creative and technical skills in a fast-paced environment with broad Bay Area project visibility and impact.
About SFFILM
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film exhibition, youth education, and artist development programs.
What We Do
- Film Exhibition — Public film programs year-round including the SFFILM Festival—the longest running film festival in the Americas, Doc Stories documentary series, star-studded special events, and family programming.
- Youth Education — Special screenings, workshops, camps, and learning opportunities for more than 13,000 Bay Area students and educators all designed by SFFILM Education to cultivate media literacy, global citizenship, and a lifelong love of movies.
- Artist Development — SFFILM Makers is the home of independent filmmaking in the Bay Area with direct artist grants, residencies, and tailored support for a next generation of films and filmmakers.
Possible Projects
Create and design all print and digital assets for SFFILM’s main events as assigned, project-mapped and budgeted. This might include: Doc Stories, Awards Night, and the 68th San Francisco International Film Festival.
- Create key art, style guides, and designs by project or campaign
- Present mockups and presentations for feedback from the Communications team and other internal stakeholders
- Produce a variety of digital, print, and advertising and promotional assets
- Implement consistent brand identity across a diverse array of materials.
- Manage multiple projects from concept to completion, adhering to strict deadlines.
- Collaborate with SFFILM’s seasonal in-house Graphic Designer.
Qualifications and Proposal Materials
Please show and tell us how your professional experience meets the following:
- Experience with branding, composition, and typography
- Ability to both integrate and elevate brand and client personality into design
- Experience meeting deadlines and working under compressed timelines.
- Fluency responding to, balancing, and integrating client feedback
- Able to produce a thorough and actionable style guide.
- Fluency in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Proficiency in After Effects is a plus
- Superior file management skills (tracking and archiving)
- Clear, direct, and professional communication style
- Nimble and detail oriented, experience working with grid systems
- Experience working with non-profit organizations a must
- Experience designing for an arts organization a plus
Cost & Fees
Detail hourly or rate charges for all graphic design services, including any administrative fees. These fees can be hourly, project based, or a combination, but should be scaled to non-profit realities.
Before beginning each project, SFFILM will request a quote and work with the graphic design consultant to come to a consensus on budget and schedule. All work will be property of SFFILM and raw graphic design files must be submitted at a project’s completion.
Submitting a proposal:
SFFILM is eager to begin work as early as August on upcoming projects and based upon consultant availability, but will work with the right candidates on alternative timelines.
Please submit:
- Letter of interest focusing on most recent and relevant work
- Qualifications
- Samples of work in a compressed PDF format with clickable links as needed
- Cost & Fee considerations
Materials should be uploaded to this dropbox link. Proposal review will begin Jul 9, 2024, but will be rolling ongoing as long as this post is on the SFFILM.org website. For any questions please contact hr@sffilm.org.