Digital Communications Intern

Use your digital engagement skills to help get Ember’s insights to reach the right audiences and help speed up the transition towards a clean, electrified future

Ember is recruiting a Digital Communications Intern on a full-time basis for six months to help get data and policy insights to our target audiences.

You will support the digital communication team to produce engaging content which accurately showcases key narratives and report takeaways. This might mean crafting a punchy social media thread to accompany a new report, designing graphics that bring our analysis to life, or helping draft our monthly newsletter. You’ll also support day-to-day digital operations—such as building web pages, developing web page content and monitoring engagement.

This is a great opportunity to gain hands-on experience in digital strategy, content creation, and climate communications within a small but high-impact international organisation. Your work will have real impact in moving the world towards a zero-carbon power system, in a fast growing and innovative organisation. The role will report into the Digital Communications Officer.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver social media plans which promote Ember’s reports and schedule targeted posts on relevant social media channels
• Support the creation of visuals (e.g. carousels, animated charts, videos) using templates in Canva or similar tools
• Use WordPress to build web pages for our reports
• Assist with basic website updates and content uploads
• Help prepare email newsletters and manage subscriber lists
• Monitor social and media engagement and gather analytics for internal reporting
• Research digital trends and opportunities to improve outreach in target

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Must have

• Strong written communication skills with an ability to communicate with clarity, in the right tone.
• Some experience with content creation (e.g. social posts, blog, student magazine).
• Basic design skills with an eye for detail
• An understanding of how to use and engage people on social media platforms, especially Twitter/X and LinkedIn.
• Organised, curious, and willing to learn.
• An interest in climate and energy.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

Nice to have

• Basic knowledge of tools like Canva or WordPress.
• Familiarity with climate/energy policy or climate justice narratives
• Interest in data storytelling or data visualisation
• Understanding of web design and development
• Other language skills (especially in Asia)

Salary: £25,207  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), temporary position for 6 months with the opportunity to extend depending on performance. 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 pro rata, plus public holidays
• 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
• Free annual eye tests
• Access to a counselling service
• Funding and allocated time for your training and development
• Paid volunteer day
• Four 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 https://ember-energy.org/ and https://x.com/ember_energy