We work with businesses, governments, and communities to ensure the shift to renewables is fast and fair so that we can create a brighter future for all
With the help of our global partners
About us
The Secure Energy Project identifies obstacles to the renewable energy transition and solves for them
We are activating new communities, building new voices and gaining policy wins
By changing the story of renewables, we will shift power and thus political will to drive the renewable energy transition
Our team
Meet the team championing the energy transition
Founder & CEO
Leila Aly El Deen
Leila is a seasoned expert with 20 years experience in campaigns, strategic communications, grant-making and community organising. Leila has built & led campaigns for Greenpeace UK and USA, Purpose Climate Lab, C40 Cities and Bloomberg Philanthropies
Senior Director
Alice Harrison
Alice has over 15 years’ experience as a campaigns and communications strategist. Most recently, she worked as Head of Fossil Fuels Campaigning at Global Witness, where she and her team exposed how the fossil fuel industry has shaped public and political opinion to slow down the clean energy transition. Alice began her career in a newsroom, working at Germany’s state broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
Strategic Campaigns Director
Pavlina Draganova
Pavlina is a campaigner and social entrepreneur with over 8 years' experience building tech and movements to improve social and environmental outcomes worldwide. She was previously Global Network Lead at Organise, an international labor rights organization with over 2 million members worldwide. She has a background in public international law and policy
FAQs
Solar and wind are now far cheaper and more abundant than fossil fuels; and we have new generation energy storage that solves the challenges of the past. Renewables offer increased energy security, cheaper bills, and improved access to energy worldwide.
But many people and industries are still making energy consumption and investment decisions based on outdated and misleading information. If we don’t communicate the opportunity of renewable energy effectively and in a way that drives public support, political and industry leaders won’t move quick enough to deliver the transition we need - slowing the pace of global progress down, and delaying huge positive impacts for both our environment and our economies.
But many people and industries are still making energy consumption and investment decisions based on outdated and misleading information. If we don’t communicate the opportunity of renewable energy effectively and in a way that drives public support, political and industry leaders won’t move quick enough to deliver the transition we need - slowing the pace of global progress down, and delaying huge positive impacts for both our environment and our economies.
Work With Us | Current Vacancies
Duration: 1 year
Employment type: Contract
Location: Africa / Americas / Europe (remote)
Reporting to: CEO
Salary: $70,000-$120,000 depending on location
Application closing date: February 22nd. Interviews in early March.
How to apply
Please apply by answering the role specific questions which can be found here. Deadline February 22nd.
About the Secure Energy Project
The Secure Energy Project (SEP) exists to fast-track and secure the global shift to clean energy. We identify the obstacles slowing progress, then work with partners to design and run collaborative campaigns that remove them. We bring together allies across civil society, policy and industry to influence the narrative and politics of energy.
The transition to clean energy can improve everything: lower bills, better jobs, cleaner air and more connected communities. Yet progress is still too slow and increasingly vulnerable to misinformation and political backlash.
Now entering our third year, SEP is leading global communications efforts, coordinating campaign coalitions, and launching audience-led interventions in key countries. We're helping the climate movement fight smarter, faster, and together.
The Role
SEP is hiring a flexible Communications Director with strong digital engagement experience to help build popular public support for the energy transition in countries where shifting public debate could unlock major political support for cheaper, cleaner, energy.
You’ll bring a strong track record in digital communications, messaging, content strategy and social platforms. You’ll design and deliver digital strategies that reach, engage and mobilise new audiences, working closely with partners and coalitions. You’ll work as part of a small team managing communications collaborations in countries across the world, leading your own communications projects and supporting others.
Within your first months, you’ll have opportunities to pilot new approaches on live work. For example: rapid response communications, popularising solar in Nigeria, and storytelling around the benefits of moving from fossil fuels to a clean economy. Learning from these pilots will generate proof of concept and evidence of impact, helping SEP scale what works and share it with partners across the clean energy movement.
This is a mid-level role which includes management of project teams and stewardship of SEP’s brand and organisational communications, but the priority is clear: real-world impact - building digital approaches that strengthen partners’ ability to win public support and create conditions for positive political outcomes.
You’ll be joining a growing organisation with big ambitions. This role suits someone who is comfortable building while moving: testing, learning and improving quickly in a startup-like environment where structures are still forming.
Key responsibilities
1) Digital strategy design and experimentation
- Design and deliver digital strategies that popularise clean energy and build public support for political action.
- Launch focused pilots, learn quickly, improve what works, and document results for scaling.
- Use audience insight, testing and iteration to craft motivating messages partners can use in their campaigns.
- Build platform strategies (organic and paid) appropriate to different audiences and contexts.
- Help SEP and partners anticipate, counter and pre-empt misinformation and bad-faith narratives on clean energy, strengthening message discipline and narrative resilience across campaigns.
2) Project leadership
- Lead campaign projects (planning, task-giving, delivery, learning and reporting).
- Lead content production across messaging, visuals and short-form video - hands-on when speed matters, or by commissioning agencies and freelancers when needed.
- Manage publishing and distribution across relevant channels, directly and/or through partner support.
- Run rapid-response digital communications during high-tempo moments - monitoring what’s breaking, making fast calls, and getting timely content live across priority channels, then iterating based on performance.
3) Partnering, advising and coalition work
- Support SEP partners as a comms adviser, delivery partner, and/or through pilots that can later scale across the movement.
- Support SEPs efforts to fundraise for our work, especially new media projects
- Participate in coalitions and, where appropriate, convene or lead working groups.
Identify and develop practical tools, training and support that increase partner impact.
4) Analytics, learning and impact evidence
- You’ll use audience insight and testing. polling, platform analytics, A/B experimentation and creative iteration to refine messaging and formats so content reliably lands with the audiences that matter.
- Maintain impact data to demonstrate value to partners and funders.
5) Organisational communications and brand
- Oversee SEP’s core communications assets and channels, including website, messaging, and key fundraising/partner materials.
6) AI and innovation
- Explore and apply practical AI-boosted workflows for content, testing, distribution and insight and support the team and partners to do the same.
About you
- You’re a digital communications leader who is both strategic and hands-on. You are low ego and flexible, happy to lead as much as being led.
- You have deep tactical experience, strong creative judgement, and a bias toward rapid prototyping: test, learn, improve. You’re comfortable in a fast-moving environment with limited resources and evolving processes.
- You understand how online narratives shape public debate and how public debate can create political pressure. When you analyse a problem, you quickly identify the audiences that matter and the formats and channels most likely to reach them.
- You don’t need an NGO background. What matters is evidence that you’ve used digital communications to shift opinion, build engagement, or disrupt established thinking - for a campaign, a product, a movement or a brand.
- You’re also entrepreneurial: you care about building approaches that work now and can scale - practical, fundable digital tactics SEP can share with partners and that strengthen SEP’s leadership in public mobilisation.
Essential skills and experience
- 5+ years experience in digital communications/media roles, including 3+ years in a role with significant responsibility for strategy and delivery.
- Demonstrated success designing and delivering communications strategies for campaigns, brands, ideas, products or movements.
- Experience in managing people to deliver digital first campaigns or projects.
- Strong, current understanding of how social platforms shape public debate with recent examples of impact.
- Proven ability to plan, produce and optimise short-form video for platforms like TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts.
- Experience building a creator / influencer ecosystem - identifying and recruiting relevant creators, briefing effectively, and scaling reach through smart repurposing and cross-posting.
- Ability to translate complex issues into clear, motivating narratives; excellent written and spoken English.
- Confidence giving constructive feedback on messaging and content with care, clarity and diplomacy.
- Proven ability to measure and improve communications performance, with working knowledge of monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches/tools.
- Strong project management skills, including briefing, coordinating sign-off, delivery and review; experience overseeing freelancers/agencies or other contributors.
- Self-directed and adaptable; able to operate effectively in a fast-moving, evolving environment.
- Working familiarity with AI tools for communications and a willingness to help others use them well.
Desirable skills and experience
- Experience running digital communications across multiple regions and adapting work for different cultural contexts.
- Energy transition or climate-related communications experience (helpful but not required).
- Experience integrating paid media, creator partnerships, and/or community growth tactics into campaigns.
- Traditional media experience (media planning, press work, pitching).
- Crisis/rapid response communications experience.
- Brand and organisational communications experience (positioning, messaging frameworks, “shop window” materials).
- Budget management experience.
What we offer
- A chance to lead high-impact digital work that accelerates the transition to clean and affordable energy.
- Join a small, high-ambition feminist organisation with a growing reputation — at a stage where you can shape our direction and grow with us.
- A collaborative, flexible, values-driven team with space to test and learn.
- Flexible working conditions, because childcare is not a hobby.
- Opportunities to work across borders with partners and change-makers in climate and energy.
- Competitive monthly compensation, based on location and experience.
How to apply
Please apply by answering the role specific questions which can be found here. Deadline February 22nd.
Employment type: Contract
Location: Africa / Americas / Europe (remote)
Reporting to: CEO
Salary: $70,000-$120,000 depending on location
Application closing date: February 22nd. Interviews in early March.
How to apply
Please apply by answering the role specific questions which can be found here. Deadline February 22nd.
About the Secure Energy Project
The Secure Energy Project (SEP) exists to fast-track and secure the global shift to clean energy. We identify the obstacles slowing progress, then work with partners to design and run collaborative campaigns that remove them. We bring together allies across civil society, policy and industry to influence the narrative and politics of energy.
The transition to clean energy can improve everything: lower bills, better jobs, cleaner air and more connected communities. Yet progress is still too slow and increasingly vulnerable to misinformation and political backlash.
Now entering our third year, SEP is leading global communications efforts, coordinating campaign coalitions, and launching audience-led interventions in key countries. We're helping the climate movement fight smarter, faster, and together.
The Role
SEP is hiring a flexible Communications Director with strong digital engagement experience to help build popular public support for the energy transition in countries where shifting public debate could unlock major political support for cheaper, cleaner, energy.
You’ll bring a strong track record in digital communications, messaging, content strategy and social platforms. You’ll design and deliver digital strategies that reach, engage and mobilise new audiences, working closely with partners and coalitions. You’ll work as part of a small team managing communications collaborations in countries across the world, leading your own communications projects and supporting others.
Within your first months, you’ll have opportunities to pilot new approaches on live work. For example: rapid response communications, popularising solar in Nigeria, and storytelling around the benefits of moving from fossil fuels to a clean economy. Learning from these pilots will generate proof of concept and evidence of impact, helping SEP scale what works and share it with partners across the clean energy movement.
This is a mid-level role which includes management of project teams and stewardship of SEP’s brand and organisational communications, but the priority is clear: real-world impact - building digital approaches that strengthen partners’ ability to win public support and create conditions for positive political outcomes.
You’ll be joining a growing organisation with big ambitions. This role suits someone who is comfortable building while moving: testing, learning and improving quickly in a startup-like environment where structures are still forming.
Key responsibilities
1) Digital strategy design and experimentation
- Design and deliver digital strategies that popularise clean energy and build public support for political action.
- Launch focused pilots, learn quickly, improve what works, and document results for scaling.
- Use audience insight, testing and iteration to craft motivating messages partners can use in their campaigns.
- Build platform strategies (organic and paid) appropriate to different audiences and contexts.
- Help SEP and partners anticipate, counter and pre-empt misinformation and bad-faith narratives on clean energy, strengthening message discipline and narrative resilience across campaigns.
2) Project leadership
- Lead campaign projects (planning, task-giving, delivery, learning and reporting).
- Lead content production across messaging, visuals and short-form video - hands-on when speed matters, or by commissioning agencies and freelancers when needed.
- Manage publishing and distribution across relevant channels, directly and/or through partner support.
- Run rapid-response digital communications during high-tempo moments - monitoring what’s breaking, making fast calls, and getting timely content live across priority channels, then iterating based on performance.
3) Partnering, advising and coalition work
- Support SEP partners as a comms adviser, delivery partner, and/or through pilots that can later scale across the movement.
- Support SEPs efforts to fundraise for our work, especially new media projects
- Participate in coalitions and, where appropriate, convene or lead working groups.
Identify and develop practical tools, training and support that increase partner impact.
4) Analytics, learning and impact evidence
- You’ll use audience insight and testing. polling, platform analytics, A/B experimentation and creative iteration to refine messaging and formats so content reliably lands with the audiences that matter.
- Maintain impact data to demonstrate value to partners and funders.
5) Organisational communications and brand
- Oversee SEP’s core communications assets and channels, including website, messaging, and key fundraising/partner materials.
6) AI and innovation
- Explore and apply practical AI-boosted workflows for content, testing, distribution and insight and support the team and partners to do the same.
About you
- You’re a digital communications leader who is both strategic and hands-on. You are low ego and flexible, happy to lead as much as being led.
- You have deep tactical experience, strong creative judgement, and a bias toward rapid prototyping: test, learn, improve. You’re comfortable in a fast-moving environment with limited resources and evolving processes.
- You understand how online narratives shape public debate and how public debate can create political pressure. When you analyse a problem, you quickly identify the audiences that matter and the formats and channels most likely to reach them.
- You don’t need an NGO background. What matters is evidence that you’ve used digital communications to shift opinion, build engagement, or disrupt established thinking - for a campaign, a product, a movement or a brand.
- You’re also entrepreneurial: you care about building approaches that work now and can scale - practical, fundable digital tactics SEP can share with partners and that strengthen SEP’s leadership in public mobilisation.
Essential skills and experience
- 5+ years experience in digital communications/media roles, including 3+ years in a role with significant responsibility for strategy and delivery.
- Demonstrated success designing and delivering communications strategies for campaigns, brands, ideas, products or movements.
- Experience in managing people to deliver digital first campaigns or projects.
- Strong, current understanding of how social platforms shape public debate with recent examples of impact.
- Proven ability to plan, produce and optimise short-form video for platforms like TikTok, Reels and YouTube Shorts.
- Experience building a creator / influencer ecosystem - identifying and recruiting relevant creators, briefing effectively, and scaling reach through smart repurposing and cross-posting.
- Ability to translate complex issues into clear, motivating narratives; excellent written and spoken English.
- Confidence giving constructive feedback on messaging and content with care, clarity and diplomacy.
- Proven ability to measure and improve communications performance, with working knowledge of monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches/tools.
- Strong project management skills, including briefing, coordinating sign-off, delivery and review; experience overseeing freelancers/agencies or other contributors.
- Self-directed and adaptable; able to operate effectively in a fast-moving, evolving environment.
- Working familiarity with AI tools for communications and a willingness to help others use them well.
Desirable skills and experience
- Experience running digital communications across multiple regions and adapting work for different cultural contexts.
- Energy transition or climate-related communications experience (helpful but not required).
- Experience integrating paid media, creator partnerships, and/or community growth tactics into campaigns.
- Traditional media experience (media planning, press work, pitching).
- Crisis/rapid response communications experience.
- Brand and organisational communications experience (positioning, messaging frameworks, “shop window” materials).
- Budget management experience.
What we offer
- A chance to lead high-impact digital work that accelerates the transition to clean and affordable energy.
- Join a small, high-ambition feminist organisation with a growing reputation — at a stage where you can shape our direction and grow with us.
- A collaborative, flexible, values-driven team with space to test and learn.
- Flexible working conditions, because childcare is not a hobby.
- Opportunities to work across borders with partners and change-makers in climate and energy.
- Competitive monthly compensation, based on location and experience.
How to apply
Please apply by answering the role specific questions which can be found here. Deadline February 22nd.