Brand Designer

Unpaid/Volunteer Black Cannabis Week Marketing Team Opportunity

Black Cannabis Week (BCW) was founded to address the growing gap between emerging opportunities and the communities most impacted by criminalization. What began as conversations among advocates, educators, entrepreneurs, and community leaders evolved into a movement for collective advancement.

Since 2018, BCW has grown into a national platform rooted in Philadelphia. We bring together policymakers, entrepreneurs, students, artists, wellness practitioners, and changemakers. Through education, entrepreneurship, advocacy, wellness, and culture, we create spaces for meaningful collaboration. Our mission is to build pathways for equity, opportunity, leadership, and lasting community impact.

BCW is looking to build out a new, volunteer (unpaid) marketing team to support promotional infrastructure surrounding our two main events: (1) The Daily Dose Tour, a segment of mini-conferences staged in select Northeast cities leading up to the (2) main September conference in Philadelphia.

Nick, the marketing lead reporting to event organizer Brandi, and new to the Black Cannabis Week team, is a creative with marketing and media experience inside and outside the cannabis ecosystem. He is supporting the development of this volunteer marketing committee. He will be working with committee members to strategize and create different arrays of marketing content to communicate with event-related leads. His focus will be to set the group up for success and act in a behind-the-scenes advisory role so that team members can get a platform to create true impact for the organization and community.

You will be asked to attend a weekly check-in dependent on everyone’s availability, with more check-ins closer to Black Cannabis Week in September.

Volunteer Brand Designer

Responsibilities:

SHORT-TERM: Occasionally assist the marketing lead with on-theme marketing communications and print materials for Black Cannabis Week 2026 and '26 Cannabis Opportunities Conference;LONG-TERM: Work with the marketing lead to elevate and create brand identity for key activations part of Black Cannabis Week, including: The Diasporic Alliance for Cannabis Opportunities (DACO), the BCW program, The Cannabis Opportunities Conference, The Daily Dose Tour, and Nova Future Leaders Scholarship Program (this will be an extended initiative to plan for the 10th annual conference in 2027);LONG-TERM: Build scalable media kits for each activation that can be applied to digital and print formats, including: web, social, email marketing, and printed fundraising and event material.

Qualifications:

3-4 years of design experience for print and digital applications;Creative strategy / problem-solver mindset to find creative solutions to complex problems;Event and merchandising design experience is a plus;Must have fluency in Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud;Must be based in the U.S., Philadelphia, PA area is preferred but not required.

Estimated time commitment: Ongoing 3-5 hours per week.