American Association For The Advancement of Science - Washington, DC
posted 5 months ago
AAAS has an exciting full-time opportunity for a Data Visualization and GIS Specialist to join our award-winning Science's Visuals team. This position is crucial for creating data visualizations, maps, and graphics for News from Science and the Science family of journals. The ideal candidate will possess strong design and typographic sensibilities, along with a passion for collaborating with reporters, researchers, and editors to assemble, sift through, and utilize data to discover trends and tell compelling visual stories. In this role, you will be responsible for researching and designing data visualizations and maps for both print and web, working on projects with varying timelines. Collaboration is key, as you will work closely with authors and editors on the News team to align on visual goals and devise effective, creative, and aesthetically striking visual strategies for graphics. You will also be tasked with redesigning graphics submitted by academics for the Commentary section to ensure compliance with Science styles and data visualization best practices. Additionally, you will collaborate with designers and photographers to ensure cohesion between visual assets in the final layout, and work alongside scientific illustrators on stories that require both data visualizations and infographics. Your design work will encompass graphics for both print and web, with a focus on responsive and accessible design, as well as interactive graphics.