Data Visualisation Officer

Use your data visualisation and visual storytelling expertise to work on the most important challenge of our time: shifting the world to clean energy.

Ember is recruiting a data visualisation officer to create highly impactful data visualisations and push our visually-led content to the next level, as our organisation continues to expand internationally. 

The role will report into the Visual Brand and Storytelling Officer, working within Ember’s digital communication team. You will work closely with policy experts, data analysts and fellow data visualisation experts to develop and design data visualisations and interactive data tools that elevate messages and insights that will help speed up the clean energy transition.

Ember has a great reputation for providing clear and eye-catching graphics that have helped shape the narrative for a clean electricity transition and have resulted in direct policy change. The data visualisation officer will help build on this level of impact while maintaining Ember’s reputation as a trusted brand. 

Data can help change the world, but only when people can understand it. Your work will have a real impact in moving the world towards a zero-carbon energy system, in a fast growing and innovative organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the data and policy teams to develop customised data visualisations for data-rich reports and briefs 
• Help find solutions to complex data visualisation problems, with the support of the wider data viz team
• Support data and policy analysts to create their own graphics - with clear messaging - using our main publishing platform, Flourish.
• Continue to build  your data analysis, design and storytelling skills, to expand the capabilities of the data viz team 
• Co-create data-viz led content which amplify Ember’s core narratives 
• Ensure Ember’s data visualisations and visual storytelling outputs have strong branding throughout and are consistent with Ember’s visual identity 
• Work with the wider digital communications team to reach and encourage our target audiences to find insights from our open access data 
• Stay abreast of the latest trends in the data visualisation industry, and test and recommend new data visualisation and visual storytelling creation techniques

Location

Fully remote; we in particular encourage anyone working from Asia to apply for this role, but applications from all time zones will be considered.

Requirements

Must have

• Experience in creating accurate and impactful data visualisations using softwares such as Flourish, datawrapper, highcharts or R
• An understanding of a data management software such as Python, R or Excel
• Comfortable with analysing data and interpreting trends 
• An eye for detail and good design 
• Excellent collaboration skills 
• Excellent problem-solving and task management skills 
• Fluency in spoken and written English
• An enthusiasm for data and data visualisation
• An interest in the global electricity transition 
• Experience telling stories with data that help to inform and influence audiences

Nice to have

• Experience in coding interactive and responsive data visualisations from scratch using languages such as d3 or javascript
• Experience analysing/visualising geospatial data, using a software such as GIS
• Experience  using a graphic software such as Adobe Illustrator
• Project management experience
• Experience in tailoring communication outputs for a target audience
• An ability to use Git and Github 
• Experience in creating documentation and reference materials for capacity building
• Ability or openness to train others - as a group or one-on-one
• Ability to create animated data visualisations  
• An interest in creating content for social media and other digital channels
• Knowledge of the global electricity transition 
• Other language skills (especially in Asia)

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity and treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of background.

Benefits

Salary: £43,470 - £56,337 - depending on experience. Salaries may be adjusted depending on a location cost of living formula, but will not be below 75% of advertised figure.

Contract:  Full time (but only working 9 days every fortnight with no reduction in pay), permanent subject to a 3 month probationary period.  For employees based outside of the UK, a local payroll contract is available, dependent on the country.

Remote culture and diverse team: Ember is a remote-first organisation, with talents of diverse backgrounds from 15+ countries over the world.

Further benefits: We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

• We operate a nine-day fortnight meaning our full-time staff are given every other Friday off work with no reduction in pay
• A minimum of 25 days holiday, plus public holidays and Christmas week-off
• For each year that you're part of the team at Ember you'll receive an additional day of holiday, up to a maximum of 5 additional days.  
• Generous paid maternity and paternity leave
• Flexible working conditions, including the opportunity for part-time work and home working.
• Access to a local working space can be arranged
• In-person meet-ups (on average 2 meet-ups per year)
• Allowance for home office equipment
• Free annual eye tests
• Access to a counselling service
• Funding and allocated time for your training and development
• Paid volunteer day
• Two paid days off to enable low carbon travel
• Time off to donate blood

About Ember

Ember is an independent, not-for-profit energy think tank that aims to accelerate the clean energy transition with data and policy. We gather, curate and analyse data on the power sector and coal mine methane emissions, and use our findings to improve energy and climate policy.

See our work at www.ember-climate.org and https://twitter.com/EmberClimate