Consultancy: Brand and Design Specialist, Office of Innovation, 11 months (240 days, remote)

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child...innovate

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF’s Office of Innovation is seeking an in-house Brand and Design Specialist to manage its brand, while producing strategic yet visually appealing internal and external communications products that help strengthen the narrative promoting our work and engaging a variety of stakeholders across sectors.

The Brand and Design Specialist will work within the Partnerships & Communications team to assist in the communication of the OOI narrative across arrange of media, designing an array of assets such as reports, fact sheets, infographics, advocacy materials, slide decks, one-pagers, social media images, videos, and other marketing materials. These will be aligned with the Office’s visual identity and branding guidelines.

The Brand and Design Specialist will have full access to UNICEF photo and footage inventory, will suggest content gathering and production across UNICEF teams, and will be provided a final copy for each assignment.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Implement UNICEF’s Office of Innovation brand across all communications assets for internal and external audiences and iterate the brand system according to insights and learnings from previous product results.
• Ensure consistency in the use of UNICEF’s Office of Innovation brand visuals and narrative across internal and external stakeholders, including internal teams, wider UNICEF networks, and external stakeholders.
• Manage the evolution of the UNICEF Office of Innovation brand system in accordance with its strategy and indicators, and through ongoing collaboration with teams and Hubs on needs.
• Manage and update the UNICEF Office of Innovation website for optimal performance; produce coherent web development and update across all OOI functions; ensure brand consistency.
• Produce templates, proactively develop designs, and update a wide range of communications materials.
• Deliver creative, engaging, and effective assets for print and digital platforms.
• Review and initiate visual improvements to slide decks, briefing notes, reports, and other documents while crafting supporting visualizations, artwork, infographics, and other graphic elements when needed for projects, campaigns, and events, in close collaboration with project and technical leads.
• Supplement and manage innovation and thematic image and video libraries, documenting additional multimedia content that is produced and developed, including edited videos and gifs along with portfolio-specific materials.
• Lead the implementation and evolution of the UNICEF Office of Innovation brand for visual display products, merchandise, and any other business needs, as well as branded visual assets for use before, during, and after events and key moments, working closely with teams attending and/or facilitating events.
• Design and produce social media and any other public-facing assets.

Please find attached the full ToR with related information Brand and Design Specialist, Consultant.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (master’s or higher*) in Communication, Journalism, Public Relations or other relevant fields.
• A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of 5 years of proven professional in writing and content development for international organizations or media.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• A strong track record of delivering quality written content for external engagement and visibility.
• Knowledge of UNICEF’s and UNICEF’s Office of Innovation’s key messaging and focus areas (including data science, connectivity, open-source technology, working with start-ups and a range of other partners, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Travel:

• The consultant may be expected to travel to Sweden – Stockholm for up to 5 days in the duration of the contract.
• The consultant is responsible to arrange his/her own travel, including visa and travel insurance.

Payment details and further considerations

• Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

How to apply:

• Interest applicant is required to submit a financial proposal with an all-inclusive fee. Please see the financial proposal template. Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
• Financial proposal must include travel costs (economy class) and daily subsistence allowance, if travel is required as per TOR and any other estimated costs: visa, travel/health insurance.
• Applications without a financial proposal will not be considered.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.