A paid, year-long, full-time, fellowship designed to promote and support emerging designers from historically marginalized communities in gaining the skills, contacts, and experience to help them excel in their design careers.
The Fellow works at CUP full-time, collaborating on our community-engaged design projects as part of the CUP team, working as an in-house designer, and participating in mentoring opportunities.
The Fellowship is an initiative to support the development of a pipeline of talented individuals from historically marginalized communities into the design fields, and to dismantle the systemic biases that stand in the way of their advancement as leaders in these fields. We created the Fellowship as a way to leverage CUP’s unique position at the confluence of design and social justice to promote change in the design fields.
WORTH
- The selected Fellow will receive a stipend in the amount of $40,000 (paid in monthly installments).
- They also provide free health insurance benefits, a flexible leave policy, professional development opportunities, and a reasonable work schedule that allows our staff to have a healthy life both inside and outside of work.
ELIGIBILITY
The ideal candidate will:
- Identify as a member of community that is historically marginalized in the design professions, including but not limited to people of color; people from low-income, LGBTQ, or immigrant communities; formerly incarcerated people; and others
- Have a background in design, particularly graphic, communication, or UI design. We believe this is a good position for a recent graduate from a design program. However, we recognize that individuals with potential to become great designers may come from a broader range of experiences. Therefore, we do not require a degree in a design field (or any degree at all). However, we do require evidence, in the form of a portfolio of images, of your skills and abilities as a designer, and your proficiency with design software.
- Be committed to social justice and racial equity
- Have good communication skills
- Be proficient with Adobe Creative Suite software, basic web applications, and Microsoft Office
- Be friendly, self-directed, detail-oriented, and able to work in a collaborative environment with a broad range of partners.
DEADLINE: April 12 2021
To apply and for more information visit here
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