Consultancy: Graphic Design Specialist, Office of Innovation, 11 months (240 working days), remote

Consultant Programme & Policy Innovation

Overview

Design and produce high-quality communications assets for UNICEF's Office of Innovation.

You have:

• A graduate degree in graphic design, communication design, visual design or other relevant fields.
• A minimum of 3 years of work experience as a visual / graphic designer.
• Work experience with a graphic design studio is an asset.
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe CC software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat).
• Experience working with Microsoft Suite tools like Office and PowerPoint.
• Experience in 2D and 3D animation, storyboarding and illustration, generating user requirements, personas and journey maps.
• Creating design systems is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Contract

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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...

UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.

The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the start-up thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.

UNICEF's Office of Innovation creates opportunities for the world's children by focusing on where new markets can meet their vital needs. We do this by:

• Connecting youth communities (or more broadly -- anyone disconnected or under-served) to decision-makers, and to each other, to deliver informed, relevant and sustained programmes that build better, stronger futures for children.
• Provoking change for children through an entrepreneurial approach -- in a traditionally risk averse field -- to harness rapidly moving innovations and apply them to serve the needs of all children.

• Creating new models of partnership that leverage core business values across the public, private and academic sectors in order to deliver fast, and lasting results for children.

  The Office of Innovation specifically looks to form partnerships around frontier technologies (like drones and UAVs, blockchain, 21st century skills, urban technologies, new banking tools, wearables and sensors, or 3D-Printing) that exist at the intersection of $100 billion business markets and 1 billion person needs – and to identify how they can grow and scale profitably and inclusively.

Our team

We're an interdisciplinary team around the world tasked with identifying, prototyping, and scaling new technologies and practices. With our partners, we focus on convening and collaborating on new and different solutions, low- and high-tech, by:

• Looking at the 2–5-year horizon to evaluate emerging and trending technologies and to see how UNICEF can work with the private sector on doing better business while improving essential services for children.
• Investing in early-stage solutions that show great potential to positively impact children in the 2-year future including the Venture Fund that invests in open-source technology solutions from start-ups based in UNICEF’s programme countries.

• Identifying proven solutions that can be implemented at national scale in multiple countries – taking the ideas that help thousands in one country, bringing them to dozens of countries across multiple sectors, and impacting the lives of millions of children.

  How can you make a difference?

• UNICEF’s Office of Innovation is seeking a Design Specialist to create high quality branded assets while producing strategic yet visually appealing internal and external communications products that help present the narrative promoting our work, engaging a variety of stakeholders across sectors.

• The Brand and Design Specialist will work in the Partnerships & Communications team designing an array of assets including but not limited to reports, fact sheets, infographics, slide decks, one-pagers, social media graphics, videos, and other marketing materials.
• The Design Specialist will produce assets in alignment with the OOI brand guidelines and will be given access to UNICEF photo and footage inventory, providing strategic guidance on content and assets and informing content gathering and production needs.

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 Innovation 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, animated assets and update a wide range of communication materials including graphics, data visualizations, artwork, infographics, multimedia content and other graphic elements when needed for projects, campaigns and events, in close collaboration with project and technical leads.
• Deliver creative, engaging, and effective communications assets for print and digital platforms.

• Review and initiate visual improvements to slide decks, briefing notes, reports, and other documents.

• Design slide decks, briefing notes, reports, and other documents, creating visualizations, artwork, infographics, and other graphic elements when needed for projects, campaigns, and events, in close collaboration with project and technical leads.

• 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.
• Support 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.
• Develop and manage innovation and thematic image and video libraries, documenting additional multimedia content including edited videos and gifs.
• Support the evolution and implementation of the UNICEF Office of Innovation brand in 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 see attached Terms of Understanding (ToR), with related information Graphic Design Specialist TOR .pdf

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

• A graduate degree in graphic design, communication design, visual design or other relevant fields.
• A minimum of 3 years of work experience as a visual / graphic designer.
• Work experience with a graphic design studio is an asset.
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe CC software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat).
• Experience working with Microsoft Suite tools like Office and PowerPoint.
• Experience in 2D and 3D animation, storyboarding and illustration, generating user requirements, personas and journey maps.
• Creating design systems is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Travel:

• The consultant should plan for potential travel to Stockholm, for a stay of up to 5 nights.

• The consultant is responsible for arranging 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 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.

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