Layout and Production Designer

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🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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NESsT

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1997

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Food & Beverage • Healthcare

NESsT is a social enterprise organization that supports dignified job creation benefiting people and the planet. They invest in enterprises that create quality jobs for underserved communities, focusing on improving employment and income opportunities. Over the past 27 years, NESsT has invested over $34 million in 245 social enterprises, creating over 112,000 employment and income generation opportunities, and training over 35,000 entrepreneurs. NESsT operates various initiatives, including the Refugee Employment Initiative and the Racial Equity Initiative, with efforts concentrated in regions like Brazil, the Southern Cone, the Andes, Poland, the Baltics, Romania, and the Balkans.

📋 Description

• Develop the visual concept, editorial layout, and final production files for an approximately 80–120-page photography-driven coffee table book • Develop a cohesive visual and editorial design system, including representative layouts • Design the complete publication, including covers, front and back matter, chapter openings, longform stories, profiles, photo-led spreads, and impact pages • Integrate NESsT-supplied photography, captions, credits, impact data, and brand assets • Create a limited number of simple publication-ready charts, maps, timelines, statistics, and callouts using approved NESsT data • Flow and copyfit the approved English manuscript and incorporate revisions through formal review checkpoints • Prepare final print-ready and digital files • Deliver an approved visual and editorial design system and representative layouts • Deliver by December 1 a release-ready digital package containing the introduction, ten longform stories, associated impact pages, and supporting front matter • Deliver by December 11 the complete publication layout, one print-ready PDF, one optimized digital PDF, and organized editable source files • Collaborate with NESsT and a distributed international team through kickoff, design review, proof review, and final delivery milestones

🎯 Requirements

• At least five years of professional publication or editorial design experience • Advanced proficiency in Adobe InDesign and relevant Adobe Creative Cloud applications • Strong experience with complete, long-form, multi-section print publications • Demonstrated ability to use typography, photography, pacing, and page composition to create a cohesive editorial narrative • Experience with photography-intensive publications, information design, commercial printing, color management, prepress, and production-file preparation • Strong attention to detail, file management, quality control, deadline management, and ability to work with a distributed international team • Substantial experience designing complete, long-form print publications; experience limited to brochures, one-pagers, websites, presentation decks, social media assets, or short reports is insufficient on its own • Applicants must submit a brief statement of interest and approach • Three to five completed editorial publications, including at least two exceeding 60 pages and at least one photography-driven publication for a premium audience • Portfolio details for each example • Team composition, if applying as a studio • Fixed-fee budget with assumptions, exclusions, taxes, reimbursable costs, and third-party expenses • Confirmation of availability to meet the December 1 and December 11 deadlines • Applicants must be available between November 2 and December 11, 2026 • Preferred: experience with nonprofit, foundation, social entrepreneurship, international development, ESG, or impact-investing organizations • Preferred: experience designing donor-facing impact communications and stewardship materials • Preferred: experience with coffee table books, museum publications, foundation reports, premium annual reports, or comparable publications • Preferred: ability to translate complex social, environmental, and economic impact narratives into compelling visual experiences

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal-opportunity organization committed to a fair and inclusive selection process • Applicants of all genders and diverse backgrounds are welcome • Remote work arrangement