Jobs in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Designer (Remote, Cape Town-Based | English)

• Location : Fully Remote (Residing in Cape Town, South Africa)
• Employment Type : Full-Time, Fully-Remote, Independent Contractor
• Languages Required : English (proficient), other languages an advantage
• Experience Required : 3+ years
• Salary Range : EUR 15, gross per annum (depending on experience)
• Reports to : Quintin Coetzee, Head of People
• Works Closely With : Head of Engineering, Developers, Marketing Lead, Head of People
• Start Date Goal : 1 October or sooner (please let us know if you have a notice period)

We’re a remote-first, mission-driven, registered non-profit, comprising around 50 highly-skilled and motivated professionals from all around the world!

Our culture is built on trust, autonomy, and collaborative professionalism.

Open Energy Transition (OET) is a German non-profit organization, advancing the global energy transition by developing innovative open-source tools and data solutions for energy and grid planning.

• enabling energy planning that is more accessible, transparent, and effective.

We’re now looking for a talented Designer to join our growing team. This is an opportunity to contribute to high-impact design work across web, branding, and publications in a mission-driven, autonomous, trusting, dynamic, fully-remote company.

As our Designer, you’ll handle a wide range of design responsibilities — from web design and graphics to presentations, social media visuals, reports, and more.

Your work will help ensure that everything we publish is visually compelling, clear, and on brand.

• Web & UI Design: Create and iterate on web page layouts, style guides, and graphics for our digital platforms. Design new websites for future projects.
• Graphic Design: Produce visuals for reports, marketing campaigns, social media, planning docs, and more.
• Branding: Uphold and evolve our visual identity across platforms and outputs, both internal and external.
• Presentation Design: Support slide design for key presentations and internal communications (proposals, funding applications, etc.).
• Creative Asset Development: Build and improve templates and branded assets for internal and external use.
• Copy Review: Collaborate with marketing and editorial teams to ensure designs align with written content and key messages.

Design Language: Please review our design language before applying.

Examples of existing design work can be found at the links below.

Your work would extend and improve upon our current publications, website, graphics, and related outputs.

• Minimum 3 years of professional experience in a similar Design role.
• Proven experience with web design and responsive layouts, corporate branding and identity, graphic design for print and digital, and presentation/publication design.
• Experience working with Figma and the Adobe Creative Cloud (equivalents considered if they meet output requirements).
• Fluency in English (written and verbal).
• Other languages are a bonus.
• A portfolio (PDF/link, under 10 MB) showcasing your work is required.
• Your experience, communication skills, and work ethic matter most. A university degree is not required—if you have one, it may be considered a bonus.

• A flexible, fully-remote work environment with autonomy and minimal oversight.
• Opportunity to support leaders who value and respect contributions towards positive societal change in the energy sector.
• A culture valuing transparency, empathy, trust, humility, diversity, collaboration, and recognition.
• Open-door policy and reciprocal feedback; you will be heard.
• A flat hierarchy where all contributions are valued.
• Competitive salary with growth potential; benefits depend on region of residence.
• Supportive onboarding and training tailored to strengths and career goals.

• Apply via Greenhouse (ATS) with as much information as you are comfortable sharing.
• Shortlisting by team members in our ATS.
• Screening call (max 30 minutes) with our People Team.
• First-round interview (max 1 hour) with People Team for competency and culture fit.
• Second-round interview (max 1 hour) with relevant team members.
• Possible short written assignment.
• Offer letter and onboarding.
• Onboarding with our People Team.

If you’re excited to impact a growing global non-profit, apply via Greenhouse and include:

• Your CV (in English)
• A link to your portfolio (mandatory)
• A short cover letter with personality
• LinkedIn profile and other relevant profiles
• Optional references/testimonials
• Your gross salary expectations (EUR)
• Notice period / available start date
• Any special needs requirements

Please note: due to volume, we may not respond to individual emails or LinkedIn requests.

If you have not heard back within 3 weeks, please consider it unsuccessful at that point, though we may contact you for future roles.

“We maintain Talent Pools for future opportunities.”

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development