Global Brand & Design Lead (6-month contract)
New Energy Nexus · Contract · Posted 5d ago
New Energy Nexus (NEX) is an international NGO that supports climate solutions and builds a more equitable clean energy economy. Our laser focus is on clean energy entrepreneurs: providing them with funds, accelerators, and networks to thrive. They are our main audience and our agent of change.
We started in California in 2004 and now operate across China, India, Southeast Asia, East and West Africa, and Australia. We have leveraged US$5.4 billion in investment and supported more than 11,000 entrepreneurs.
We're bringing on a senior designer and brand strategist for six months to lift the craft of everything NEX puts in front of the world. You'll work on two fronts: sharpening our brand system and how it's applied across 14 countries, and designing the content and materials our team needs — landing pages, reports, decks, and campaign assets. You’ll be comfortable switching often and quickly between strategic and creative roles, to ad hoc and hands-on content design.
You'll partner closely with our Marketing Manager, who runs our ecosystem of websites and needs a design counterpart for UX and page design, as well as our Content & Engagement Lead, who manages our channels. This is a hands-on role for someone who thinks strategically about brands and still loves to make things.
There is potential scope for this role to be permanent pending funding.
You will join a small but mighty global communications team inside a forward-thinking international NGO. We support comms leads in each of the 14 countries we operate in, manage all global channels, and steward the NEX brand and editorial process. Your manager will respect your work-life balance and fully support you in bringing your whole self to work.
This role is offered as an initial 6 month contract, with the potential to become a permanent position subject to organizational needs and future funding. We are primarily seeking a full-time team member, although part-time arrangements may be considered for an exceptional candidate.
This role is fully remote. You’ll need a reliable internet connection and flexibility to collaborate with colleagues across multiple time zones. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the country where they are based, as New Energy Nexus is unable to provide visa sponsorship or relocation assistance.
You start with a UX review of a program landing page alongside the Marketing Manager, sketching a cleaner user journey in Figma. Mid-morning, you design social templates for a campaign, working closely with a chapter comms lead, then check how the brand is showing up on a chapter website, while flagging and implementing fixes. In the afternoon, you lay out a donor-facing slide deck and build a reusable template. You end the day in a call with colleagues from around the world to give your advice on the visual branding of a new flagship event showcasing clean energy startups, scouting gaps you can support on.
Brand
Website UX and Design
Campaign Design and Creative Systems
Design & Content Production
Requirements
Required Skills
Benefits
Send your CV, portfolio, and a one-page cover letter with a short note on how you would take on this role in the first few months and what you would like to achieve.
New Energy Nexus is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression of an otherwise qualified individual, or membership in any other class protected by applicable law. New Energy Nexus hires and promotes individuals on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. We strongly encourage applicants from under-represented and marginalized communities to apply.
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