Coordinator, Creative Services

Omaha Public Power District; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 82,000 - 102,000; Full time

Job summary

Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) seeks an experienced Coordinator, Creative Services to lead graphic design and brand stewardship across the organization. You’ll influence campaigns, presentations and reports while shaping workflows and scalable design systems.

Ideal candidates bring hands-on design in corporate settings, deep brand knowledge, and strong collaboration skills to partner with business areas and external vendors. This role blends creative excellence with process improvement.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on professional graphic design experience in a corporate/agency environment.
• Strong experience managing corporate brand standards and visual identity systems.
• Advanced expertise with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign).
• Ability to take a creative project from intake to final delivery.
• Experience balancing multiple projects, stakeholders and deadlines.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for feedback and decisions.
• Mindset focused on continuous improvement and organized workflows.

Responsibilities

• Create compelling visual communications for campaigns, presentations, reports, digital content and branded materials.
• Serve as a brand steward, ensuring consistency with visual identity across partners and vendors.
• Translate business needs into strong, effective creative solutions with stakeholders.
• Manage creative intake, prioritization, scheduling and workflow for timely delivery.
• Support high-profile projects including infrastructure initiatives and external partners.
• Build and improve design systems, templates, toolkits and standards.
• Manage digital assets with organized version control and accessibility.
• Lead collaborative reviews and feedback sessions to turn ideas into actionable creative direction.
• Identify opportunities to modernize the creative function and improve processes.

Skills

Brand management

Adobe Creative Suite

Design systems

Portfolio

Tools

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Job description

Opportunity Profile

Coordinator, Creative Services | Graphic Design & Brand

Help Shape How OPPD Shows Up.

OPPD is looking for an experienced graphic design and brand professional to join our Corporate Brand & Communication Operations team. This is much more than a traditional production-design role. We’re looking for someone who can create exceptional visual work, help steward an established corporate brand, improve creative processes, and serve as a trusted creative partner across the organization. You’ll work closely with our Corporate Brand & Communication Operations leadership and collaborate with teams throughout OPPD on everything from major organizational initiatives and infrastructure projects to campaigns, presentations, digital content, reports and other high-visibility communications. If you have strong professional design experience, understand how to manage a brand in a complex organization, and enjoy finding better ways to get creative work done, we’d love to see your work.

What You’ll Do

• Create compelling visual communications for internal and external audiences, including campaigns, presentations, reports, digital content and other branded materials.
• Serve as a brand steward, reviewing creative work for consistency, accuracy and alignment with OPPD¿s visual identity and providing guidance to internal partners and external vendors.
• Partner closely with business areas and project teams to understand their needs and translate them into strong, effective creative solutions.
• Help manage creative intake and workflow, including prioritizing, scheduling and tracking requests to ensure work moves efficiently and deadlines are met.
• Support high-profile projects and initiatives, including work involving major infrastructure projects and external creative/engineering partners.
• Build and improve design systems, templates, toolkits and standards that make great design easier and more consistent across OPPD.
• Manage digital creative assets and help establish organized, scalable practices for version control, accessibility and reuse.
• Lead collaborative reviews and feedback sessions, helping stakeholders turn ideas and feedback into actionable creative direction.
• Identify opportunities to modernize the creative function, improving processes, tools and ways of working rather than simply continuing to do things because “that`s how they've always been done.”
• Support creative project reporting, budgets, purchase orders, invoicing and related administrative coordination as needed.

What We’re Looking For

This is not an entry-level graphic design opportunity. We’re looking for someone who has developed their craft in a professional environment and understands the difference between creating a good-looking piece and building communications that consistently support an enterprise brand.

• Significant hands‑on professional graphic design experience in a corporate, agency or similarly complex environment.
• Strong experience working within and helping manage corporate brand standards and visual identity systems.
• Advanced expertise with Adobe Creative Suite, including tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• The ability to independently take a creative project from intake and concept through design, review, revision and final delivery.
• Experience balancing multiple projects, stakeholders, priorities and deadlines.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain creative decisions and navigate feedback from a variety of stakeholders.
• A mindset focused on continuous improvement, organization and finding smarter ways to deliver creative work.

Even Better If You Have

• Motion graphics or animation experience. This is an area we would especially love to add to the team.
• Photography or videography experience.
• Photo and/or video editing capabilities.
• Experience developing templates, design systems or creative toolkits.
• Experience with creative workflow/intake systems or digital asset management.
• Experience partnering with outside agencies, vendors or contractors.

Show Us Your Work

A portfolio is an important part of our selection process. Please include a link to an online portfolio, website or other examples of your work with your application. If your portfolio is not online, you may provide another format that demonstrates the breadth and quality of your professional design experience.

We’re especially interested in seeing work that demonstrates brand thinking, corporate/organizational design, visual storytelling and a range of creative applications, rather than only social-media graphics.

Work Environment

This role offers flexibility while remaining connected to the team and the organization. OPPD currently requires at least one day per week at an OPPD facility, with the Corporate Brand & Communication Operations team typically connecting in person on Wednesdays. The nature of the team’s work may also provide opportunities to get out into the organization, collaborate with employees and capture the people, projects and stories behind OPPD.

Why OPPD?

At OPPD, your work is visible throughout the organization and the communities we serve. You’ll have an opportunity to help shape and strengthen the visual expression of one of Nebraska’s most recognizable organizations while joining a collaborative communications team that is actively modernizing how creative work gets done.

This is an opportunity for an experienced designer who wants to do great creative work while also helping build something better.

Salary/Wage Info

Salary grade: S3

Min: $81,905

Mid: $102,381

The OPPD Difference

Our Culture & Mission

At Omaha Public Power District, everything starts with people. Our teams, our communities, and the customer owners who count on us. As the 12th largest public power utility in the U.S., we serve more than 900,000 people across 13 counties, and we take that responsibility seriously. We lead with integrity, support one another, and do what is right because how we serve matters just as much as what we deliver. Our goal is simple: provide affordable, reliable, and environmentally responsible energy today and for generations to come. We create power with purpose. Your work here has real impact on families, the environment, and on the future of energy. And we believe great ideas can come from anywhere.

If you want to be part of a team that takes care of the community and the people who serve it, you are in the right place. We back up our mission by taking care of our employees, too, which is why our benefits are among the most comprehensive and competitive in the region.

EOE: Protected Veterans

If you would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with OPPD, please email OPPD Talent Acquisition at [e-mail] .