Consultant - Web Graphic Designer (Open to Indian Nationals Only)

Consultant Human Rights

Overview

Design engaging and user-friendly e-governance web portal.

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in graphic designing, web analytics or related fields.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in graphic designing, web analytics and relevant experience such as Power BI, Google Data Studio, Tableau, Dreamweaver tools and softwares.
• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop Express, Adobe Illustrator, Typescript, Atom.io, Jira, and Git.
• Knowledge of web graphics and programs including Macromedia Flash etc.
• Command over content management systems and applications like Site support Joomla, HubSpot etc.
• Knowledge of recent trends in graphic design, websites including online video publishing etc.
• Experience of working on social issues, gender concerns and experience of development projects will be an added advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to create innovative and visually appealing design and provide examples of such assignments within last 5 years.
• Experience and knowledge of functioning with government systems/departments.
• Proficiency in English; good command over Hindi in reading and writing.

Contract

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Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women, men and diverse genders as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

UN Women globally focuses on key priority areas that are fundamental to women’s equality, and that can unlock progress across the board. UN Women’s priority areas include increasing women’s leadership and participation in political spaces, ending violence against women, enhancing women’s economic empowerment, engaging in all aspects of women peace and security processes, making gender equality central to national planning and budgeting through Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) and advancing gender equality in intergovernmental processes.

UN Women’s work on Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) or Gender Budgeting (GB) involves ensuring that national planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation processes incorporate a gender perspective. UN Women’s GRB programmes at the regional and country level have made significant contribution towards this by building political support, developing technical resources and capacities, generating good practices for improving women's access to services and increasing accountability for Gender Equality and Women’s empowerment (GEWE). At the forefront of global, regional and local advocacy for application of GRB, UN Women has built partnerships with diverse government, inter-governmental and non-governmental partners to further efforts and demonstrate GRB’s relevance to sustainable development, aid effectiveness, public sector reform and financing for development.

UN Women’s India Country Office, based in New Delhi is implementing a project with the objective of strengthening institutional mechanisms for GRB resulting in an increase of gender perspective in budgets, improved availability of data, and tracking of progress on gender equality initiatives across ministries and select states/UTs. It aims to create a conducive policy environment and enhance institutional capacities on gender budgeting at the national and State/UT level. It will identify strategies and operational approaches to strengthen on-going efforts in the area of GRB. Insights generated from this project will enable key stakeholders at the national and state level to accelerate their efforts to ensure that women’s priorities are adequately reflected in national and state budgeting processes, and to make concrete changes for adequate resource allocation towards women’s priorities.

UN Women through this programme will work with national ministries including Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Ministry of Finance to deepen anchoring of GB across union ministries and departments and sectors. It will support establishing and strengthening institutional mechanisms for GRB and institute methodological changes in Planning-Budgeting and Auditing (PBA) systems for enabling gender responsive actions. The project will aim to enhance capacities of government officials and other stakeholders to implement the gender responsive PBA measures, and leverage technology to advance gender budgeting including through and e-governance tools.

Within this context, UN Women seeks the services of Web Graphic Designer. Under the overall guidance & reporting to the Programme Lead- GRB and with support from the IT Specialist and the core unit team, the Web Graphic Designer will be responsible for enhancing the accessibility and digital interface of the web portal design of the e-governance tool.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall guidance of Programme Lead – GRB , the Web Graphic Designer will work to support in strengthening the design of the e-governance tool on gender responsive governance and budgeting.

The Web Graphic Designer will work closely with the IT Specialist-GRB, UN Women and have the following tasks:

• Design graphics creation for the e-governance tool and develop an aesthetic design for the web portal.
• Design/strengthen the layout of e-governance tool on gender budgeting to make it user-friendly based on the content provided by UN Women.
• Translate information and data received from Ministries/States on Gender Budgeting into designed, user and web-friendly formats, that can be updated and adjusted for future use.
• Ensure the design of the materials is consistent with Government of India’s policies and UN Women’s communications guidelines/standards.
• Select and edit images for the web portal.
• Design a dynamic dashboard with analytics, graphs for easy consumption of quantitative data.
• Support IT Specialist for piloting of the tool, UAT testing, and aggregation of dashboard.
• Work with the IT Specialist to ensure compatibility of the tool with National e-government portals, popular web browsers (Google Chrome, Firefox, Windows, Safari) and mobile platforms (Android and IOS).
• Set up the website on Sitecore, UN Women’s corporate web content management system (WCMS), with the guidance of the Website Specialist, including the site structure, information architecture, sections, pages, publications, articles and other features.
• Work with the UN Women Communications Team to prepare content according to web content writing best practices and upload it to the website.
• Assign relevant metadata to uploaded content.
• Install and configure modules on relevant pages.
• Work with the Website Specialist and web developers in Headquarters to identify, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues on the WCMS.
• Train the Communications Team and other relevant regional office staff on how to use the WCMS to add and edit content
• Any other task assigned in relation to the above.

Note- UN Women has non-exclusive world rights in perpetuity of all designed submissions and products.

Deliverables:

• Submission and approval of the work plan -e-gov tool. Website development plan and structure (sitemap): draft version submitted - 15 November 2023 - 20% Payment.
• Design graphics creation for the e-governance tool and develop an aesthetic design for the web portal. Website set up on Sitecore, including the site structure, information architecture, sections, pages, publications section, news section and other features as agreed in the sitemap - 30 November 2023 - 20% Payment.
• Design a dynamic dashboard with analytics, graphs for easy consumption of quantitative data. Initial training on the WCMS held for the Communications Team - 1 December 2023 - 15% Payment.
• Support IT Specialist for piloting of the tool, UAT testing, and aggregation of dashboard. Website tested, technical issues identified and resolved; testing report submitted - 31 December 2023 - 15% Payment.
• Work with the IT Specialist to ensure compatibility of the tool with National e-government portals/ other web browsers. Final training on the WCMS held for the Communications Team including detailed handover notes on WCMS management and content editing - 30 January 2024 - 20% Payment.
• Final e-gov portal tested and handed over to UNW - 25 February 2024 - 10% Payment.

Competencies

Core Values / Guiding Principles:

Integrity:

• Demonstrate consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Professionalism:

• Demonstrate professional competence and expert knowledge of the pertinent substantive areas of work.

Cultural sensitivity and valuing diversity:

• Demonstrate an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrate an international outlook, appreciating difference in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values:

• Demonstrate and safeguard ethics and integrity.

Organizational Awareness:

• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment.

Work in teams:

• Demonstrate ability to work in a multicultural, multi ethnic environment and to maintain effective working relations with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.

Communicating and Information Sharing:

• Facilitate and encourage open communication and strive for effective communication.

Self-management and Emotional Intelligence:

• Stay composed and positive even in difficult moments, handle tense situations with diplomacy and tact, and have a consistent behaviour towards others.

Conflict Management:

• Surface conflicts and address them proactively acknowledging different feelings and views and directing energy towards a mutually acceptable solution.

Continuous Learning and Knowledge Sharing:

• Encourage learning and sharing of knowledge.

Functional Competencies:

• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
• Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills;
• Focuses on impact and result for the partners and responds positively to feedback.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic designing, web analytics or related fields.

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in graphic designing, web analytics and relevant experience such as Power BI, Google Data Studio, Tableau, Dreamweaver tools and softwares.
• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop Express, Adobe Illustrator, Typescript, Atom.io, Jira, and Git.
• Knowledge of web graphics and programs including Macromedia Flash etc.
• Command over content management systems and applications like Site support Joomla, HubSpot etc.
• Knowledge of recent trends in graphic design, web sites, including online video publishing etc.
• Experience of working on social issues, gender concerns and experience of development projects will be an added advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to create innovative and visually appealing design and provide examples of such assignments within last 5 years.
• Experience and knowledge of functioning with government systems/departments.

Language:

• Proficiency in English; good command over Hindi in reading and writing.

Interested applicants should apply to this announcement through UNDP jobs site: jobs.undp.org. Female web designers are encouraged to apply.

Application:

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document:

• All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) and their work portfolio which can be downloaded http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/about-us/jobs.
• Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment, please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document along with the work portfolio. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.
• Applications received after the close date will not be accepted.
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Evaluation and Selection Criteria:

Criteria for shortlisting of CVs will be based on the following assessment:

• Required Degree and Qualification (5 points).
• Expertise and Experience relevant to the assignment (10 points) based on portfolio provided.
• Demonstrable experience of working on gender issues (5 points).

The evaluation process for selection of the candidate will be based on the following assessment:

• Interviews (80 points)

Please Note:

• For an assignment requiring travel, consultants of 65 years or more require full medical examination and statement of fitness to work to engage in the consultancy.
• Due to large number of potential applicants, only competitively selected candidates will be contacted for remaining steps of the service procurement process.
• The consultant is expected to use their own computer equipment. The office will not provide any computer equipment for this assignment.
• This is a full-time assignment. The consultant is expected to disclose any outside activity and shall not be permitted to take up any outside work during the course of this assignment.

Note:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality, and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

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