Global Brand & Design Lead (6-month contract)

New Energy Nexus

7d•Remote

About The Position

New Energy Nexus (NEX) is seeking a senior designer and brand strategist for a 6-month contract to enhance the quality of all external communications. The role involves two main areas: refining the brand system and its application across 14 countries, and designing content and materials such as landing pages, reports, decks, and campaign assets. The position requires the ability to frequently switch between strategic and hands-on creative tasks. This role will collaborate closely with the Marketing Manager, who oversees the website ecosystem, and the Content & Engagement Lead, who manages communication channels. It is a hands-on position for an individual with strategic brand thinking who also enjoys creative execution. There is a possibility for the role to become permanent, depending on future funding.

Requirements

6+ years in brand and digital design, with a portfolio showing brand systems and web/UX work
Strategic branding experience: you've built or evolved brand systems and can explain the thinking behind them
Strong UX and web design skills; fluent in Figma; comfortable in WordPress
Climate or clean energy experience, and experience working globally or regionally
Fluent English, and self-managing in an async, distributed team
Experience working globally or regionally, across cultures and time zones
You use AI tools daily and critically: to work faster on drafts, research, and analysis — while knowing exactly where they fall short of your own voice and judgment
Hungry to learn: you pick up new tools, formats, and platforms before anyone asks you to

Nice To Haves

Front-end skills (HTML, CSS, some JavaScript) for refinements beyond standard WordPress blocks
Motion design and video editing
Nonprofit, philanthropy, or climate-sector clients
Experience designing for entrepreneur or startup audiences

Responsibilities

Brand Audit and sharpen the NEX brand system: guidelines, templates, brand kits across Canva and Drive, and how the brand shows up across global and chapter channels
Advise the CCO on brand strategy and visual identity decisions
Support chapter teams to apply the brand well
Partner with the Marketing Manager on UX for our global and chapter websites: user journeys, landing pages, and page layouts
Build/design pages using an existing page builder/block editor in Wordpress using Figma (or similar) to design.
Improve conversion on key pages: program applications, event registrations, and contact points
Art-direct the creative for flagship campaigns, working closely with the Content Lead and Marketing Manager, and local chapters, from concept to rollout
Build scalable design systems the global team runs on — campaign toolkits, templates, and asset libraries
Be a facilitator and mentor to chapter comms leads: coach them on brand and design craft, and guide their work, or roll up your sleeves and implement, depending on what each country chapter needs
Set the creative bar for outsourced work: brief and quality-control design and video vendors
Support and/or lead storytelling projects with strong visual elements, from videos, photo stories to illustrations and data visualizations
Design ad hoc materials: reports, slide decks, one-pagers, social assets, and campaign visuals
Build reusable templates so the team keeps producing well-designed materials after your contract ends