Remote Volunteer: Graphic Design & Visual Communications

The Shepherds Ark is a Christ-centered ministry on a mission to build a sanctuary of hope and justice for both animals and people. We are a volunteer-based ministry dedicated to providing rescue, care, and advocacy for at-risk animals while also addressing the systemic injustice that leads to the destitution of both animals and people.

Remote skilled-volunteer opportunity | Social, web, print, presentation, campaign, and template design

Remote - United States

Approximately 3-6 hours per week; project-based assignments

90-day introductory period; renewable by mutual agreement

Multiple designers and production volunteers with complementary tools and styles

Founder/authorized creative or campaign lead

The Animal Cause, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Christian animal-welfare organization working to save shelter animals, support efforts to reduce shelter overpopulation, preserve life, and strengthen the systems that help vulnerable animals move from crisis toward safety, care, and responsible placement. We support and collaborate with shelters, rescues, fosters, volunteers, receiving organizations, veterinary providers, donors, businesses, churches, and communities through volunteer, transport, rescue-support, consulting, foster-partnership, visibility, and infrastructure-building efforts.

Through The Shepherd's Ark Program, we are developing mobile animal-care, transport, logistics, field-support, and visibility capacity. The organization is also building broader infrastructure intended to improve coordination, public engagement, resource access, and lifesaving pathways across Texas and beyond. The Animal Cause is entirely volunteer-led and supported through donations, grants, fundraising, and in-kind support. No representative currently receives a salary.

The Animal Cause is recruiting a graphic-design and visual-communications team to create consistent, accessible, editable, and mission-aligned materials across social media, websites, fundraising, volunteer recruitment, foster recruitment, animal visibility, partner outreach, presentations, documents, and The Shepherd's Ark. Designers will work from approved briefs and may contribute ideas, but final messaging, program claims, and priorities remain subject to organizational approval. This opportunity is being recruited as part of a team.

No single volunteer is expected to own the entire function, carry every assignment, or determine organizational priorities alone. Work will be divided into defined projects based on skill, availability, current readiness, and approved organizational priorities.

• Create approved social graphics, banners, campaign images, presentations, brochures, reports, infographics, thumbnails, flyers, and website assets.
• Develop reusable branded templates for multiple programs, campaigns, teams, and platforms.
• Translate complex animal-welfare, program, donor, volunteer, partner, and operational information into clear visual communication.
• Prepare correct dimensions, file types, compression levels, accessibility features, and export versions for each channel.
• Maintain organized editable source files, linked assets, licenses, version history, and final exports in approved folders.
• Coordinate with marketing, website, video, content, and program volunteers.
• Apply consistent typography, layout, image treatment, logo use, tone, and calls to action.
• Review assets for accuracy, readability, copyright, privacy, animal dignity, and potential public misunderstanding.

• Create or refine a core Canva brand and template library.
• Develop coordinated asset sets for Mercy Stage, The Shepherd's Ark, foster recruitment, volunteer recruitment, and fundraising.
• Create Linked In and Facebook banners, square posts, story/reel covers, event graphics, and partner spotlight templates.
• Design one-page partner briefs, donor consideration documents, presentations, and case-study layouts.
• Build editable animal-profile and shelter-visibility templates that can scale beyond one animal.
• Compress and export images to platform limits without…