Global Canopy is a data-driven not for profit that targets the market forces destroying nature. We do this by improving transparency and accountability. We provide innovative open-access data, clear metrics, and actionable insights to leading companies, financial institutions, governments and campaigning organisations worldwide.

This role will lead the delivery of the Trase communication strategy over the next 5 year strategic period.

Working as part of the Impact team within Trase, alongside colleagues responsible for content production and those engaging directly with companies, governments and financial institutions, you will take responsibility for leading all aspects of public relations – press, media, events, promotion and publicity.

Writing – demonstrable experience of creating compelling and concise written pieces both from scratch and from detailed technical information, accurately and creatively.

Planning – demonstrable experience of creating communications plans for the release of new data sets, to share new insights, or in response to external events, to deliver on Trase’s priorities and strategic approach.

Engage and influence – demonstrable experience of developing and maintaining relationships with key people and organisations including journalists and partner organisations.

Decision-making – able to make sound tactical decisions on the right public relations approach to ensure our external communications work remains tightly aligned with our strategy for engagement and impact.

Innovative – able to bring new ideas and approaches to the table, think creatively and question assumptions.

Solutions and action-oriented: able to prioritise effectively and work autonomously to develop and deliver strategy/tactics. Meets deadlines and proactively ensures dependencies are in place.

Collaborative: creating buy-in and enthusiasm.

Entrepreneurial and adaptable: able to respond flexibly to a fast-moving internal and external context, and to get new ideas off the ground.

Track record in creating, delivering and evaluating communications plans; including a strong focus on press and media relations.

Experience and success in strategic communications i.e. using communications to deliver on strategic goals through many routes, including advocacy, engagement, partnership working.

At Global Canopy, we value diversity and inclusion. You can read our diversity statement on our website. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and are committed to having a team with a diverse set of skills, experiences and abilities. We are committed to reducing systemic barriers in our recruitment processes.

Global Canopy works on issues of tropical deforestation. We are particularly interested in strengthening our team to include those with a background from forest regions such as Latin America and South East Asia. We welcome applications from people from these regions.

Global Canopy is an inclusive employer and accommodations will be made to allow anyone who requires additional support to apply for this role. Please get in touch with us if you require any additional support.

Note: Candidates need to attach the writing sample as part of their CV as one document, due to the set up of the ATS we are using.

Communications Lead

Call for expressions of interest - Product Designer

The Stockholm Environment Institute calls for expressions of interest regarding the procurement of a Product Designer for the Trase Initiative.

Trase is an independent science-based initiative with the goal of empowering a just transition towards more sustainable systems of production, trade and consumption of commodities that are driving the majority of deforestation worldwide. To achieve this, Trase’s mission is to drive a step-change in the transparency and understanding of commodity trade by providing the data, tools and actionable intelligence for companies, governments and civil society organisations to take practical steps to address deforestation.

Central to Trase´s offering is a set of open data products available through 

 detailing supply chain connections and exposure to deforestation, emissions and other impacts of individual trading companies and import markets for many of the main commodity sectors linked to tropical deforestation, including soy, beef and palm oil. We are constantly evolving our data products to accommodate changes in the data landscape and meet evolving user needs, with an increasing investment in geospatial intelligence and global trade analyses complementing our deep-dive work in specific sectors. In addition to data products we also produce targeted analyses on barriers and opportunities facing sustainable commodity trade and provide strategic advice to governments, industry and civil society coalitions. 

The Trase team is made up of over 35 individuals, located in nine countries, brought together by enthusiasm, curiosity and drive to deliver on our mission. Our multinational and multidisciplinary team brings a diversity of perspectives, experiences and expertise that is essential for us to deliver on our mission. We strive to create an inclusive, dynamic and fun environment where team members and partners are individually and collectively empowered.

Trase is looking to contract a Product Designer for 12-months to help make our product offering more impactful, compelling and responsive. Are you a product designer with a passion for crafting intuitive and impactful user experiences? Do you excel at translating user needs into innovative product solutions? Are you passionate about contributing to Trase´s mission? If so, we invite you to work with us as a Product Designer and play a pivotal role in developing products that can deliver lasting positive impact on the sustainability of commodity trade.

User research: Experience conducting user research to understand their needs, pain points, and motivations.

UX and visual design: Experience with developing exceptional UX and visual designs for websites. Strong experience with developing prototypes and iterative design for user-facing tools and websites.

Tools: Proficient in using Figma to create and prototype user interfaces.

Ways of working: Demonstrated ability to work in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams and cross-functional stakeholders to define user interface requirements.

Data-Driven Designer: Experience designing data-heavy websites and interfaces, such as dashboards, reports, and maps.

Interest in work-area: Passion for sustainability, climate tech, or open data


Accessibility Advocate: Understanding of accessibility best practices for web design, ensuring inclusive experiences for all users.

Compelling communicator and storyteller: Effectively communicate design decisions and influence your team and users.

Understanding of HTML and CSS standards and best practices is desirable.

) in January 2024 and we are looking to make continuous improvements on the site and our individual data products for the rest of the year. This role fills an important gap in the product team which currently has a product manager, frontend developer and a backend data engineer - working alongside a wider data and innovation team. We are looking for somebody to lead the product design responsibilities in the team and be an advocate for our users, while helping to critically judge the success of our products against user-focused outcomes.

The main responsibility of this role is to lead on all product design work by discovering user insights, turning them into designs for testing and preparing implementable high-fidelity designs for development.

With recent work in reforming the product vision and strategy, Trase is moving towards having a more defined user experience. As part of this, we are providing users with varied but curated access to our data and intelligence. This change in approach resulted in a re-design of the user journey on trase.earth, which ultimately led to a new website. We are now using the new website as a foundation and improving user journeys we see are the most effective in delivering value to our users. You will work with Trase´s team to identify unmet needs and user pain points, and lead research on user experience, as well as ongoing concept and prototype testing work. User research work also includes engaging with Trase´s partners and internal team who both use and distribute Trase´s products. User feedback feeds directly into Trase’s monitoring, evaluation, and learning system to inform prioritization of impact pathways.

Implementing, testing and iterating ongoing UX/UI improvements

Linked to user research, once we identify and prioritise specific pages or user flows, we envision the product designer to own the process of turning insights into effective design, that can then be tested with users and iterated on.

We expect the product designer to collaborate with product managers, engineers, visual designers, and other stakeholders to effectively communicate design ideas. This may involve presentations, explaining design decisions, incorporating improvement suggestions, and advocating for user needs throughout product development.

As the first ever product designer, we expect this role to play an active role in setting up standard practices and ways of working, based on common approaches. We also expect the product designer to contribute to development of product strategy, ways of working and other resources as needed.

200+ days over 12-months, full-time (35 hours a week)


Fully remote: Ability to join meetings in GMT and GMT+1 and GMT-3, timezones will be a plus.

Start date is as soon as possible, or by arrangement.

The consultant will be responsible for any in-country taxes and fees.

Process to submit an expression of interest

At this stage we are seeking expressions of interest. You may submit an expression of interest via the apply button below with the following information:

Proposed daily rate inclusive of all in-country taxes and fees

The deadline for submitting expression of interest is 

Individuals selected to submit full tenders will be notified on or by 

Inquiries concerning this call for expressions of interest can be directed to Rosa Indenbaum, Trase Director of Operations at 

Employees working on Trase are recruited by our partner organisations.

Work with us and use your skills and experience to address commodity-driven deforestation and enable fair and sustainable agricultural supply chains.

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