This Volunteer Placement is Located in: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Start Date: January 2027

Placement Length: 5 months

Language Requirements: English Level 5-Fluent

Eligibility: Open to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents of Canada only

The Volunteer’s Role

Are you passionate about visual storytelling, graphic design, and creating media that inspires change? Rejoice Africa is seeking a Graphic Design & Video Production Specialist to help elevate its brand, strengthen its communications, and showcase the transformative impact of its programs.

In this role, you will work with Rejoice Africa's leadership, communications, and program teams to bring the organization's 2026-2030 Strategic Plan and RISE. LEAD. TRANSFORM. vision to life through compelling visuals, engaging digital content, and authentic storytelling. You will help build sustainable communication systems, develop impactful multimedia resources, produce inspiring testimonial videos, and equip staff and volunteers with practical media production skills that will continue delivering results long after your placement ends.

This is an opportunity to use your creative expertise to strengthen youth leadership initiatives, amplify community voices, and support an organization committed to empowering future changemakers across Africa.

As a volunteer, you will:

• Develop a professional suite of branded templates for social media, presentations, reports, newsletters, event promotions, impact stories, and partner communications, ensuring consistency across all organizational communications.
• Produce five compelling testimonial documentary videos that showcase the impact of Rejoice Africa's programs through ethical, participant-centered storytelling and responsible content production practices.
• Redesign selected Young Leaders Development (YLD) training materials to enhance visual appeal, learner engagement, accessibility, and overall user experience.
• Deliver practical coaching and training sessions for staff and volunteers on graphic design, video editing, visual storytelling, content creation, and effective use of communication tools.
• Establish sustainable media production systems, including content planning workflows, approval processes, asset management structures, and publishing guidelines.
• Create high-quality communication assets such as organization profiles, impact reports, donor materials, presentations, event graphics, and promotional videos.
• Review current communication channels and recommend strategies to improve audience engagement, content effectiveness, accessibility, visual consistency, and digital performance.

Essential Qualifications:

• Degree, diploma, certification, or equivalent experience in Graphic Design, Multimedia Production, Digital Media, Communications, Film Production, Marketing, Visual Arts, or a related field.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating graphic design, multimedia content creation, video production, branding, and digital storytelling projects.

Essential Background:

• Demonstrated experience in graphic design, visual communications, and brand development, including creating professional templates and communication materials for digital and print audiences.
• Experience producing and editing high-quality video content, including storytelling, interviews, documentary-style videos, and social media content using tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, or similar platforms.
• Proven ability to train, mentor, or coach others while developing practical systems, workflows, and resources that strengthen an organization's long-term communications capacity.

What’s in it for YOU? A life-changing experience!

About Us

Cuso International (Cuso) is an international cooperation and development organization based in Canada that works to create social and economic opportunities for equity-deserving groups. Building on over sixty years of impactful work, we address global challenges by tackling the root causes of inequality. Working alongside our partners, we are focused on efforts to improve economic resilience, advance equity and inclusion for all, and deliver progress on climate action. We believe that by sharing skills, we can build better futures. Guided by our values of courage, inclusion, sustainability and accountability, Cuso combines innovative strategies and enduring partnerships to create lasting, meaningful change in communities across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. 
Project: Sharing Canadian Expertise for Inclusive Development and Gender Equality (SHARE) 

Partner: Rejoice Africa

Benefits

Volunteer Support and Requirements 

Support Package

Cuso International provides a comprehensive support package to ensure volunteers maintain a modest and healthy lifestyle aligned with local standards. This includes: 

• Monthly living allowance 
• Accommodation 
• Health insurance (including required vaccinations and antimalarial medication) 
• Round-trip airfare and visa/work permit costs 
• Pre-placement, in-country and reintegration training (along with access to self-directed materials and online resources) 
• Ongoing local support 
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program during and after placement 

Selection and Screening

If you are shortlisted, you will need to: 

• Confirm passport or permanent resident details for travel 
• Provide two professional references
• Complete a language assessment during the initial phone interview 
• Pass a police check and medical clearance before departure 
• Comply with anti-terrorism checks 
• Agree to uphold the Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) policy and Code of Conduct 

Residency and Citizenship: Candidates are responsible for confirming how volunteering internationally may affect their citizenship or residency status. Canadian Permanent Residents should verify requirements with Immigration Canada before travel. 

Inclusion and Accessibility: Cuso International welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds and equity-deserving groups. We provide reasonable accommodations throughout recruitment and placement. If you have accessibility needs, please contact us for support. 

Ready to Make a Difference? Apply to volunteer today!