Graphic Designer

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Volunteer Position — Unpaid

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The Graphic Designer will help bring PONG’s programs, opportunities, events, and ideas to life through creative and engaging visual design. This person will help develop graphics and promotional materials that communicate PONG’s mission, strengthen its visual identity, and make information more engaging and accessible to students, families, volunteers, partners, and the broader community.

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This is a highly collaborative role. The Graphic Designer will work closely with the Communications & Social Media Coordinator, Content Writer, Website Coordinator, and Events Coordinator to create promotional materials for PONG’s programs, events, conferences, and other activities. This may include designing flyers for outreach and promotion, creating graphics for social media, developing materials for PONG programs, and creating visual content for the website and other communication platforms.

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The Graphic Designer will also have opportunities to work independently by developing visual materials for PONG’s individual programs and initiatives. This may include creating program logos, banners, merchandise designs, T-shirt designs, tablecloth designs, promotional images, and other materials that help give each program its own visual identity while remaining connected to the larger PONG brand.

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What You’ll Do

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• Create engaging and professional graphics that help communicate PONG’s mission, programs, opportunities, events, and activities.

• Work with the Communications & Social Media Coordinator to create graphics and visual content for social media platforms.

• Create social media graphics, announcements, promotional images, and other visual materials that help PONG reach students and the broader community.

• Work with the Content Writer to develop visual materials that accompany articles, student highlights, announcements, program descriptions, and other written content.

• Work with the Website Coordinator to provide graphics, images, logos, banners, and other visual materials for the PONG website.

• Work with the Events Coordinator to create flyers, promotional materials, signage, and other graphics for conferences, events, and other PONG activities.

• Create flyers and promotional materials for PONG programs, opportunities, events, outreach, and recruitment.

• Help develop program packets and visual materials that can be used by PONG programs and their teams.

• Create and maintain visual assets such as logos, banners, promotional images, and other graphics for PONG programs.

• Develop designs that can be adapted for different formats, including social media, websites, print materials, presentations, and physical promotional items.

• Help prepare graphics and designs for PONG booths, conferences, outreach events, and other public-facing activities.

• Help ensure that PONG’s visual materials are consistent, recognizable, and aligned with the organization’s overall identity.

• Work with the broader PONG team to understand the purpose, audience, and goals of each design before creating it.

• Make revisions to designs based on feedback from PONG team members and program leaders.

• Organize and maintain PONG’s graphic assets so that logos, templates, promotional materials, and other designs can be easily accessed and reused.

• Help adapt existing designs for different programs, events, platforms, sizes, and formats when needed.

• Create visual materials that help make PONG’s information more accessible, engaging, and understandable to students, families, and the broader community.

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Program Design and Independent Projects

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The Graphic Designer will also have the opportunity to take ownership of visual design projects for individual PONG programs. These projects may include, but are not limited to:

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• Designing program logos and visual identities.

• Creating banners and other large-format graphics.

• Designing T-shirts and other merchandise.

• Creating designs for PONG and program-specific tablecloths and displays.

• Creating promotional images and graphics for program recruitment and outreach.

• Developing visual materials for program packets and resources.

• Creating graphics for presentations, workshops, and educational materials.

• Developing templates that programs can reuse for future events and announcements.

• Adapting and preparing logos for different uses, including resizing, recoloring, and creating alternate versions when appropriate.

• Creating visual materials that help individual programs establish their own identity while remaining connected to PONG.

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What We’re Looking For

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We’re looking for someone who is creative, organized, detail-oriented, collaborative, and interested in using design to help communicate ideas and tell PONG’s story. You do not need to meet every requirement below, but experience with graphic design, digital art, branding, or visual communications is strongly preferred.

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Helpful experience and skills include:

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• Experience creating graphics, illustrations, promotional materials, or other visual designs.

• Familiarity with graphic design software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Canva, Figma, Affinity, or similar tools.

• Understanding of basic design principles such as composition, typography, spacing, hierarchy, and visual balance.

• Ability to create designs for both digital and physical materials.

• Experience designing graphics for social media platforms.

• Experience creating flyers, posters, banners, brochures, or other promotional materials.

• Experience designing logos or developing visual identities is a plus.

• Experience designing merchandise, T-shirts, tablecloths, or other physical promotional materials is a plus.

• Ability to work with existing logos, branding, templates, and other visual assets.

• Ability to adapt designs for different sizes, formats, and platforms.

• Strong attention to detail and willingness to revise designs based on feedback.

• Ability to communicate with team members and understand the goals and audience of a project before beginning a design.

• Ability to stay organized and manage multiple design projects at the same time.

• Experience with nonprofit, education, science, student organizations, or community organizations is helpful, but not required.

• A portfolio or examples of previous work are helpful and may be requested.

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Most importantly, we’re looking for someone who is creative, willing to learn, comfortable working with others, and excited to help build PONG’s visual identity and bring its programs and ideas to life.

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About the Position

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This is a volunteer, unpaid position with PONG. As a growing nonprofit, we are still building our programs, systems, and resources, and our current positions are volunteer opportunities.

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In return, this role offers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in graphic design, branding, digital media, visual communications, marketing, and nonprofit outreach while working as part of a collaborative team. You’ll have the opportunity to create designs for a real nonprofit, build and expand your portfolio, contribute to projects that reach students and communities, develop visual identities for growing programs, work alongside other creative and communications roles, and help shape how PONG is seen and recognized as the organization grows.