Lead Game Designer/Creative Director at African Centre for Innovation and Leadership Development (ACILD)

Key Responsibilities

• Balance and adjust game play experiences to ensure the critical and commercial success of the product
• Provide feedback to designers and other colleagues regarding game design features
• Create core game features including story lines, role-play mechanics, and character biographies for a new video game
• Devise missions, challenges, or puzzles to be encountered in game play
• Guide design discussions between development teams
• Develop and maintain design level documentation, including mechanics, guidelines, and mission outlines
• Create and manage documentation, production schedules, prototyping goals, and communication plans in collaboration with production staff
• Present new game design concepts to management and technical colleagues, including artists, animators, and programmers
• Solicit, obtain, and integrate feedback from design and technical staff into original game design

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Arts, Sciences, Engineering, or a related field
• Evidence of involvement in game development (any of the following: board games, PC game, and/or mobile phone games)
• Experience working with youths is an asset
• Ability to think creatively: develop, design, or create new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, CAD applications, Graphics Design Applications
• Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
• Understanding of different Nigerian cultures and foods

Benefits
This position offers a number of wonderful benefits:

• Opportunity to put theoretical knowledge into practice through a global health intervention
• Opportunity to work with youth on nutrition matters (preventative nutrition)
• Be a part of a dynamic and collegial research team
• Opportunity to work with an NGO for a Canadian government-funded project