STEM Illustrator

Location: Remote

About us: At Holford Lab, our mission focuses on pioneering research that bridges the realms of chemistry and biology. We specialized in discovering the potential of venomous marine snails’ peptides in treating serious medical issues in pain management and cancer treatments.

Job Description:

We're currently seeking a contract artist to illustrate our scientific research activities. Applicants must have a very strong drawing and illustration background, and expertise using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Must be extremely organized and able to adjust to a fast paced scientific environment to produce creative quality ideas and concepts and then transfer those ideas. Contribute to all aspects of the written and oral presentations and visual communication processes.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to all aspects of written and oral presentations and visual communication processes
• Create and edit PowerPoint presentations for staff members
• Create templates with appropriate markings for staff use based on previous examples
• Coordinate the preparation and review of presentations with scientific staff
• Ensure consistency within and across all presentations for a particular meeting
• Design and develop concepts and illustrations for scientific project
• Coordinate and incorporate the proofing work of graphic design for quality control
• Use Dropbox and/or Google Drive file sharing system to set up repositories for documents
• Prepare PDFs and mockups for manuscripts
• Make meeting announcement images and scientific posters
• Load and test run presentations on computer
• Proposed revisions to our work process

Qualification:

• Applicants must have a very strong curiosity about science, especially marine science (BA/BS in art or STEM subject, recommended).
• Expertise in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Must be extremely organized and able to adjust to a fast paced scientific environment

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The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).

RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.