CAPE is looking for a temporary freelance graphic designer and video editor to:
- Support campaign, member engagement, and rapid-response digital and communications work.
- Apply CAPE’s visual identity, campaign branding, accessibility standards, and design direction consistently across materials and online assets.
- Adapt designs into multiple formats and sizes for different platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, email, web, and print.
This work may include quick-turnaround projects and rush assignments for social media, email, web, print, video, and event materials. We’re looking for people who can help create clear, compelling, bilingual-ready visuals that support organizing, member education, and public-facing campaigns.
Compensation:
$50-60/hr at 15hrs/week until Dec 15th, 2026. Compensation will be determined based on the successful candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Timeline:
Interviews week of August 10th
Ideal start date of August 24th
Roles and Responsibilities:
Graphic design
- Design graphics for social media, email, ads, web, events, campaigns, and member-facing materials.
- Prepare bilingual-ready or bilingual layouts in English and French with provided copy.
Video editing
- Edit short-form videos for social media, email, web, campaign launches, member updates, and public-facing communications.
- Cut raw footage into clear, engaging, platform-ready videos.
- Add titles, lower thirds, text overlays, motion graphics, transitions, music, logos, calls to action, and other visual elements as needed.
- Create short clips from longer videos, meetings, interviews, speeches, events, or recorded remarks.
- Ensure videos are polished, accessible, on-brand, and optimized for digital engagement.
- Add, edit, prepare, and sync subtitles/captions for videos with accuracy, clarity, spelling, timing, and readability.
Fast-turnaround and rapid-response work
- Be able to complete some assignments and revisions within short turnaround windows, including approximately 1 to 3 hours depending on project scope. If this level of turnaround may be required within a certain project or push, CAPE will provide advance notice.
- Manage multiple quick edits or format changes under tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy and quality based on feedback from CAPE staff.
Collaboration and communication
- Join and monitor a designated Microsoft Teams channel for project assignments, updates, feedback, file sharing, and coordination during set hours.
- Respond to assignment requests, questions, and revision notes in a timely and professional manner.
- Participate in brief check-ins or planning conversations as needed.
- Keep project files organized and share working files, exports, and source files when requested.
- Track time and deliverables accurately for invoicing and project management purposes.
This is a service contract offered to an independent contractor. No employment relationship is created between ACEP and the selected candidate. No promise or guarantee of future employment is associated with the contract. Any possibility of future employment would be subject to a separate recruitment process.
If interested in this contract opportunity, please contact Vanessa Serna at vserna@acep-cape.ca with your resume, portfolio, and a cover letter explaining how your experience is relevant to union content creation by August 7th but we will be reviewing applications as they come in with the subject line: “Graphic/Video Designer and Editor Contractor”.
