Canva Design Specialist
About Us The Australian Pet Welfare Foundation is a research, education and advocacy organisation working to improve the health and wellbeing of pets, people and their environments. Our work focuses on evidence-based solutions that support communities, reduce shelter and pound intake, and help prevent the euthanasia of healthy and treatable cats and dogs.
We are looking for a Canva Design Specialist to help refresh our existing digital communications so they are more consistent, professional, on-brand and appealing to donors, supporters and our wider audience.
About the Role We are seeking a volunteer with a strong design eye to redesign and refresh our existing newsletter template, LinkedIn banner and Facebook banner using APWF’s brand guidelines.
We will provide access to our existing Canva templates, previous newsletters, brand guidelines and examples of current communications. The aim is not to create a completely new brand, but to refine and improve our existing materials so they look polished, consistent and engaging.
This role would suit someone with experience in Canva, digital design, visual communications, nonprofit communications, brand design or marketing design.
Key tasks may include:
- Reviewing existing Canva templates and previous newsletters
- Redesigning or refreshing the APWF newsletter template
- Updating LinkedIn and Facebook banners using APWF brand guidelines
- Ensuring designs are consistent, professional and visually appealing
- Improving layout, readability, hierarchy, spacing, typography and use of imagery
- Ensuring designs are suitable for donors, supporters, partners and the broader community
- Creating templates that are easy for the APWF team to reuse and update
- Providing basic guidance on how to maintain consistency when using the templates
- Advising on simple design improvements across current digital communications
Future opportunities may include Social media post templates; Campaign graphics; Fundraising appeal designs; Brochure design; Event or presentation materials and Other Canva-based communications and donor materials.
Skills and experience needed We are seeking someone who has:
- Strong Canva design skills
- A good eye for layout, branding and visual communication
- Experience designing newsletters, banners, social media graphics or marketing materials
- Ability to work within existing brand guidelines
- Ability to create clean, consistent and reusable templates
- Attention to detail
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work independently and meet agreed timelines
- Experience with nonprofit, donor or animal welfare communications would be highly regarded
- A genuine interest in animal welfare and evidence-based change
Why volunteer with us? This is a practical, creative opportunity to help a small animal welfare organisation improve the quality and impact of its communications. Your design work will help APWF present its research, advocacy, fundraising and education work in a clearer and more engaging way.
Your contribution will help us better connect with donors, supporters, partners and the wider community, while creating templates that the team can continue using beyond the initial project.
Reporting to Business Manager