Marketing & Design Director Volunteer

Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally (ESAL); United States; Remote; USD 25,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally (ESAL) is seeking a Marketing & Design Director to lead multimedia and design strategies. This volunteer role involves mentoring volunteers, overseeing communications, and ensuring effective engagement with the STEM community. If you're passionate about nonprofit work and possess strong design skills, we encourage you to join our mission. This role requires a commitment of 10-15 hours a month, offering you the opportunity to influence a growing organization committed to civic engagement.

Benefits

Networking opportunities with STEM professionals

Demonstrate leadership in a nonprofit

Contribute to a meaningful mission

Qualifications

• Experience in graphic design and multimedia production.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team.

Responsibilities

• Oversee external communications and marketing products.
• Mentor social media and design volunteers.
• Maintain consistent branding across all projects.

Skills

Graphic Design

Multimedia Production

Mentorship

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Design, or related field

Tools

Canva

Job description

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Nonprofit Management | Civic Engagement | Sustainability | Youth Mentorship | International Development

Do you believe the STEM community brings a valuable perspective to challenges faced by cities, counties, and states? Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally seeks to inspire, encourage, and empower people in STEM to be active civic participants. We are a dedicated group of volunteers working to help our fellow members of the STEM community more effectively engage with their local communities and governments. And we would be thrilled to have you join our team.

ESAL is looking for a volunteer to direct the multimedia and design work of ESAL’s communications and marketing. ESAL generates content through our web articles, events, and workshops and core to achieving our mission is encouraging broad engagement with these resources. If growing and managing a multimedia and design strategy for a small, high-impact organization sounds exciting, this might just be the right role for you!

As the ESAL Marketing & Design Director, you will oversee ESAL’s external communications and marketing products by:

-Working collaboratively with ESAL’s programmatic teams to prioritize graphic design and multimedia assets for the ESAL website, social media, and newsletter.

-Maintaining clear and efficient workflows and role expectations for marketing and communications team members to follow.

-Mentoring and supervising social media volunteers developing skills to reach a wider audience and invite more engagement with ESAL’s work.

-Mentoring and supervising multimedia volunteers in turning existing recorded content into informational and instructional video or audio featurettes.

-Mentoring and supervising graphic design volunteers to fulfill event, workshop, website, fundraising, and social media graphic design requests through Canva.

-Creating a collaborative and supportive team culture for social media, graphic design, and multimedia volunteers.

-Maintaining ESAL’s brand–ensure that consistent brand/voice is used across all of ESAL’s graphic, social media, and multimedia projects.

-Advising on other marketing and communications research and outreach needs and opportunities.

In this organizational leadership role, we also ask that the Director:

• Serve on ESAL’s Leadership Committee collaborating with Directors of other ESAL teams.
• Work remotely under the guidance of the Executive Director.
• Contribute ~10-15 hr/month of your time to do the above.
• Make at least a 6 month commitment to volunteering with ESAL.

In return, by volunteering with ESAL you will gain the opportunity to:

• Network with engineers and scientists across the country who are passionate about improving their communities
• Demonstrate that you can develop and drive an organization’s marketing and design strategy
• Demonstrate leadership in a science policy and civic engagement organization
• Influence and shape a growing organization that is receiving broad recognition from the science policy community due to its unique focus on non-federal engagement

If you are interested in helping us change how engineers and scientists think about policy engagement, please contact us with a paragraph describing your interest and a link to a bio or an attached resume [e-mail].

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Civic and Social Organizations

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