Graphic Designer/Photographer

Bowhead•St. Louis, MO

51d•Onsite

About The Position

Bowhead seeks a Graphic Designer/Photographer to support the Office of Corporate Communications at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). This role involves providing a wide range of creative design and photography services, ensuring all products meet high professional standards and adhere to specific government requirements.

Requirements

3-5 years of relevant experience in the career field of graphic design and photography.
Must use Nikon Digital camera systems and Adobe Creative Suite / Creative Cloud software.
Must have detailed knowledge of the entire Adobe Creative Suite / Creative Cloud graphic design software package on a Windows platform.
Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and outside contacts.
Strong interpersonal skills and good judgment with the ability to work alone or as part of a team.
Must currently hold a security clearance at the Top Secret/SCI level.
US Citizenship is a requirement for Security clearance at this location.

Responsibilities

Provide design and layout support, text processing, page mark-up, graphic scanning, large and small format printing, sign marking, engraving, mounting & laminating, and any other creative design support.
Enter services rendered into NGA’s online application via the Local Work Order Tool and make them easily accessible by the Government.
Stay abreast of new and potentially evolving software packages which may be useful for NGA in the future.
Review all products with the Graphic Design Lead Key Positions to ensure there are no grammatical, typographical or compositional errors.
Design products for printing on digital presses, which can differ from other design and layouts.
Provide high quality, professional digital photography to include both portrait and on-scene photography.
Conduct on-scene photography for accident investigations, building maintenance, events, award ceremonies, group photos, and photo-journalism.
Apply proper caption writing techniques for all photographs.
Load all photos into NGA OCC’s Darkroom with proper metadata tags and captions.
Remove all metadata from photographs before images are approved for public release.
Perform other duties as assigned.