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Generic Job Description - Technical Illustrator III GRADE D
Representative Duties:
Serves as a source of information on design, size, format, and other color schemes.
Determines techniques, materials, and time and cost estimates.
Constructs exhibits and posters through graphs, charts, diagrams, and 3-dimensional free hand drawings. Uses and modifies computerized graphics programs to create illustrative material.
Oversees and instructs support staff.
Performs additional functions incidental to illustration activities.
Family: Technical Support
Job Code: 745 Date: 2/89
The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.
Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 745 Technical Illustrator III Grade D
Required Knowledge:
Advanced knowledge; college-degree; substantial knowledge in a specialized field; substantial knowledge in broader field of learning.
Extensive knowledge of craft or trade.
Limited acquaintance with business, accounting, or commercial procedures.
Limited acquaintance with University organizational policies and procedures.
Required Skills:
Extracts and compiles a range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking questions, or from one or several given databases; limited interpretation of data.
Use of one or several standard reference works.
Apply, explain, or substantially revise complex, technical, or specialized literature.
Compose and proofread routine formal letters or memoranda for internal or external circulation.
Regular, skilled use of complex machines; responsibility for troubleshooting and maintenance necessary to ensure consistent operation at a high quality level; and/or sophisticated manipulation of a database.
Office and Administrative Skills:
Merge, edit and manipulate data on a personal computer to generate complex reports.
Experience, Education, and Formal Training:
Two years of related work experience in the same job family and a Bachelor degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes/methods.
Often coordinates or organizes the work of others.
Interpersonal Relations:
Ongoing involvement outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on complex matters.
Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex answers that may take time to give.
Supervisory Guidelines:
Work may or may not be reviewed.
Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign and schedules work jointly.
Instruction provided only in very rare instances.
Independent Judgment
Established procedures/policies govern some work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problem solved by choosing solutions from among several alternatives that are not necessarily governed by established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility
Occasionally provides work guidance or orientation for non-routine procedures/policies.
Often distributes and monitors work.
Impact and Consequence of Error
Work has significant impact both on more than one department and outside the University.
Errors are difficult to recognize and correct and can cause harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or to other individuals and groups.
Working Conditions
Slight possibility of safety risks.
Regular, multiple or conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines, or emergencies.
Regular sustained concentration.
Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.
Example 1
Technical Illustrator III (745)
Salary: D
General Purpose:
Serve as source of information on design, size, format and production techniques.
Essential duties of position:
1. Work with clients to suggest design modification. Determine methods and materials to best complete job. Prepare time and cost estimates and final bill. Organize and track workflow.
2. Oversee and instruct support staff. Assist manager with the daily organization and production of the unit.
3. Using both traditional and computer methods, prepare and revise visual materials for slides, posters, publications and grant submissions.
4. Perform computer support and maintenance. Oversee file management, archive and back-up systems. Keep updated with computer technology and advise clients on software and hardware support issues.
5. Shoot slides from books and other flat material. Develop black and white film for slides, mask and mount slides.
Experience and training:
1. Two years of related work experience in the same job family and a Bachelor degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
2. Two years’ work exp. using Macintosh Computer graphic packages.
3. Preferred: BA or BFA in commercial or fine arts or BS in biology. Medical or scientific background.
Skills and abilities:
1. Photography: Processing black and white film.
2. Macintosh computer support and troubleshooting.
3. Image scanning and page lay-up using Adobe PhotoShop and QuarkXPress.
4. Preferred: Exp. shooting copy work, In-situ or medical images. Exp. with Freehand or Illustrator, Persuasion, Power Point, Canvas, MS Office, Delta Graph and web design/HTML editors.