UI / UX Designer at eHealth Systems Africa

Department: Informatics
Division: EHA Clinics
Reports to: Senior Manager, Clinical and Laboratory Informatics

Summary of Job

• As part of an agile and cross-functional informatics team you will help building experiences and visual interfaces both for our medical team and our clients.
• You will grow into a T-shaped person that learns to take responsibility for an end-to-end process.
• If you are motivated to learn and to also develop your technical skills, then you will be a valuable addition to our team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• You will create validated, user-friendly, and accessible designs and interfaces using design tools such as Adobe Suite, Figma, or Sketch.
• You will focus on a user- and mobile-centered approach to solve design challenges and support business needs.
• You will create presentations and online graphics for our clinics and our clients.
• You will work on brand-related topics such as landing pages, social media, etc.
• You will continuously collaborate with our design and development team, the medical team, and project owners to create an outstanding experience for our users and customers.
• You will learn our development process and implement your web designs with HTML/CSS to support the development team
• You will thoroughly understand our technical domain and help perfect our processes.
• You will openly give and receive feedback.

Role Requirements
The requirements listed below are the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to successfully perform this job: 

• You have a Bachelor's Degree in IT, Design, or equivalent.
• You have up to 3 years of experience designing for mobile and web.
• You have an understanding of the end-to-end design process, including user research, interaction design, interface, and information design, and visual design.
• You have a good eye for design and possess knowledge of design principles.
• You have expertise in the craft of design with a portfolio showing some combination of user journeys, wireframes, visual design, and prototypes.
• You demonstrate the ability to keep the user at the center of the product development process.
• You have a basic awareness of front-end technologies such as HTML/Javascript.
• You are motivated to gain technical expertise in front-end development to implementing your own designs.
• You are hands-on and a team player.
• You work independently and are results-driven, and you show a high level of performance motivation.
• You are flexible and enjoy working in an environment of rapid change.
• You are a truly caring person, communicative and open-minded.

Working Hours:

• The UI Designer is a full-time position requiring a minimum of 40 hours per week. All staff at EHA Clinics are occasionally expected to work beyond the mandated 8 hours a day when the need occurs.  

Salary

• Competitive salary scale which is negotiable, but performance-based.

Other Benefits
The following benefits are available with this offer of employment:

• Health Insurance: EHA Clinics will cover medical expenses for yourself, your spouse and up to two dependents. Further details are contained in the Nigeria Addendum to the EHA Clinics Employee Handbook.  
• Group Life Assurance: EHA Clinics provides life insurance for you as our employee. This insurance is payable in the event of your death. The effective date of coverage will be upon successful completion of your probationary period.
• Group & Personal Accident: EHA Clinics provides Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (ADD) for you as our employee. AD&D covers death by accidental means (rather than natural causes) and dismemberment. The effective date of coverage is your hire date.
• Pension: EHA Clinics supports employee retirement preparation and investment by paying a 10% pension contribution on top of the statutory pension contribution of 8% that is already factored into your salary.
• Annual Leave: You are entitled to 21 days paid annual leave accrued at 1.75 days/month. Employees may begin scheduling leave with their direct supervisor upon successful completion of their probationary period.