Design Support for Global Surge Coordination Unit

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies, and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.

The Emergency Operations Division (EME) supports WFP’s Regional Bureaus (RBs), Country Offices (COs), and partners to prepare and respond to current and future emergencies in a rapidly changing humanitarian environment. EME provides a field-focused, service-oriented, steering and convening role focusing on forward-looking preparedness and support to emergencies to ensure a swift, coordinated, and integrated response. In particular, the ability to timely deploy surge staff with the required operational experience and technical skills remains a critical factor for effective emergency response.

The Global Surge Coordination Unit (GSCU) within EME identifies, upskills, and deploys emergency response staff in support of life-saving operations where required. It is responsible for managing the process of identifying and deploying personnel in response to staffing requests, leveraging a pool of qualified candidates. The GSCU also maintains Standby Partnerships with governments and NGOs to field technical experts when needed. It also holds the Surge Learning team which capacitates staff through a curated learning journey that ensures those moblized to have the right skills to make an impact.

The online volunteer who will support with graphic designing is expected to support the team remotely. Reporting to the Global Business Transformation Officer, the Online Volunteer will support specifically the creation & ensuring all designs are visually appealing, high-quality, and meet WFP GSCU brand standards and guidelines.

The selected Online Volunteer is expected to deliver a professional, client-focused service, partnering with managers to implement solutions in line with WFP corporate priorities. The Online Volunteer will gain knowledge and experience in building visual concepts and designs, either by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or educate users.

The Global Surge Coordination Unit (GSCU) is looking for one online volunteer to support the team in developing and designing layouts, graphics, advising, & illustrations for 2 projects product in the surge digitalization team. The selected candidate will report to the Business Transformation Officer and work closely with colleagues in the digitalization team, GSCU and other colleagues in the organization to collaboratively work towards common goals.

The selected online volunteer is expected to:

• Developing and designing layouts, graphics, and advise illustrations for 2 products in GSCU • Ensuring all designs are visually appealing, high-quality, and meet WFP & GSCUs brand standards and guidelines • Work closely with relevant counterparts across GSCU to ensure consistency and accuracy of messaging. • Maintain confidentiality in handling any of the information given.

The candidate should least have 2 years of experience in most positions. Proficiency in graphic design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) Strong understanding of typography, color theory, and visual hierarchy. Attention to detail and a strong eye for design aesthetics. Familiarity with web design principles and front-end development (HTML, CSS, etc.) is a plus but not required.