Role Summary:

The Content and Digital Platforms Coordinator will lead the organization’s multimedia and digital presence, ensuring all content is creative, accurate, timely, and aligned with the organization’s vision and goals. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on content creation, team supervision, and cross-departmental collaboration to deliver high-quality across all platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise the multimedia team and oversee the delivery of all media, content, and design projects to a high standard and within deadlines.
• Manage social media channels, media outlets, the website, and other digital platforms to ensure consistent and effective content distribution.
• Monitor social media messages and emails to ensure efficient and effective communications with our audiences.
• Create, edit, and refine English and Kurdish language content for captions, publications, campaigns, and other communication materials.
• Develop and oversee creative concepts and content strategies that align with organizational objectives and engage target audiences.
• Oversee multimedia projects from concept to final delivery, ensuring adherence to brand guidelines and project scope.
• Provide secondary support for organisational events, including media coverage, communications, branding, and content creation.
• Collaborate closely with other departments to integrate media and content into broader organizational initiatives.
• Support the development of communication materials across departments, including announcements, reports, and promotional content.
• Ensure quality control across all outputs, maintaining accuracy, consistency, and brand integrity.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in media management, content creation, or a related field.
• Strong skills in writing and editing Kurdish-language content.
• Excellent communication skills in Kurdish and English, additional languages are a plus.
• Hands-on experience with videography, editing, and graphic design tools is desirable, but not required.
• Ability to lead teams, manage multiple projects, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong strategic thinking, organizational, and communication skills.
• Comfortable appearing in front of the camera when needed, including presenting, interviewing, or participating in on-camera content.

Working Conditions: 

• This is a full-time, in-office position, 9 AM to 5 PM, with Fridays and Saturdays off; a total of 40 hours per week.
  

Interested candidates are invited to send a resume and cover letter to information@kcac.org.

Position Summary:

The Kurdistan Center for Arts and Culture (KCAC) is seeking a Senior Graphic Designer to join our team on a full-time basis. This role involves designing visual content to support our mission of celebrating, preserving, and promoting Kurdistan’s heritage, culture, and art. The Senior Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating visual materials spanning digital, print, brand and spatial design.

Key Responsibilities:

Support Lead Designer on the following:

• Digital Design: graphic content for social media platforms
• Print Design: large-scale print publications, exhibition catalogues and reports
• Brand Identity Design: design and rollout of exhibition and project identities
• Spatial & Environmental Design: branded event spaces, signage and way-finding, exhibition spaces
• Content brainstorming: workshop ideas and initiatives for content creation in collaboration with the team.
• Visual strategy: Assist with creative direction and visual strategy for campaigns, projects and social media. 
• Coordination with the media team: collaborate with videographer, photographer and other team members to create cohesive designs.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Proven experience in graphic design, with a strong portfolio.
• Proficiency in graphic design tools including Adobe Suite and Figma.
• Creative thinking and excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to handle a variety of project types and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team.
• Proficiency in English and Sorani Kurdish.
• Should be curious, culturally sensitive, organised, responsible, and open to feedback.

Working Conditions:

• This is a full-time, in-office position, 9 AM to 5 PM, with Fridays and Saturdays off; a total of 40 hours per week.

Interested candidates are invited to email their portfolio and resume to information@kcac.org.

Position Overview

The Kurdistan Center for Arts and Culture (KCAC) is seeking a highly organized and culturally engaged Director of Publications to lead our translation and publications efforts. This is a hybrid administrative-editorial role, ideal for someone who understands both the art of translation and the logistics of publishing. The position involves managing the translation process while also playing a strategic role in how our work is distributed both locally and internationally.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and coordinate all literary and translation projects commissioned by the organization. 
• Identify and recruit skilled editors, writers, and translators from all dialects of Kurdish and English.
• Making final editorial decisions on texts published by KCAC.
• Develop and execute a publications strategy, highlighting literary projects in line with the organization’s mission, while balancing local and international distribution goals.
• Identify publication opportunities across departments. 
• Cultivate relationships with international publishers, draft proposals, and pursue publishing opportunities abroad.
• Manage print production for locally distributed materials, including liaison with printers and booksellers.
• Attend and identify opportunities of engagement at local and international book fairs. 
• Maintain and develop a long-term strategy for the economic sustainability of the translation and publication department.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in translation, editorial work, or publishing is required.
• Strong administrative and project management skills.
• Familiarity with Kurdish literature, both contemporary and historical.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to manage relationships with translators, authors, and publishing partners.
• Fluency in Kurdish (any dialect) and English is required; an additional regional language is desirable such as Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Russian, or Armenian. 

 Working Conditions:

• This is a full-time position, 9 AM to 5 PM, with Fridays and Saturdays off; a total of 40 hours per week.
• In-office is preferred, but a flexible remote structure can be arranged for the right candidate.

Interested applicants are invited to send a resume and cover letter to information@kcac.org.

As we expand our archive, the Kurdistan Center for Arts and Culture is seeking archival professionals who would be interested in joining our team in the future. These positions include Head Librarian, Digitization Operator, and Metadata Entry Technician. We also welcome the support and advisory of international archival professionals in any capacity. We will post the positions when they become available, but until then, please send us a paragraph describing your interest in KCAC, along with your resume, to the email address below. If we think that you could be a good fit for our team, then we will contact you for future job openings.

information@kcac.org