National Consultant - Graphic Designer

Contract

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Background

UN Women Country Office in Georgia supports the government and civil society partners in fostering women's empowerment and gender equality. UN Women focuses its activities on one overarching goal: to support the implementation of existing international commitments to advance gender equality at the national level.

In recent years, digital products have become one of the best ways to convey various information to a large and diverse audience on social media platforms. In the past 3-5 years, UN Women has begun using various visual products including infographics to convey the enormous amount of work that is being done on a local and global scale and to visualize the data that is available on women’s rights and issues. Visual products such as infographics provide the opportunity to present information and data in a straightforward way. They are being used on and disseminated through, for example, UN Women websites, social media, and advocacy reports.

UN Women plans to maximize its communication and outreach through targeted, diverse digital visual products such as: internet banners, infographics/data visualization, social media posters, animated visuals, and gifs for print and social media.

UN Women in Georgia is seeking a professional designer/data visualization specialist to support in producing various print and digital visualization products.

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant’s primary tasks may include the following, among others:

• Working closely with UN Women teams, conceptualize and develop animation videos, graphics and infographics;
• Suggest ways on how best to visualize specific data and information derived from UN Women studies and surveys;
• Ensure user-friendly formats, layout, and design and that all publications, reports and products are produced in line with UN Women graphic guidelines;
• Deliver creative and innovative ideas for print, electronic, web-based and animated products;
• Design and lay-out of design for various applications such as advertisements, brochures, reports and other communications products for print and electronic distribution:
• Translate data into graphic elements – infographics, factographs;
• Layout and design information and communication materials (banners, posters, booklets, leaflets, books, calendars, bulletins, flyers, cards);
• Create animations for illustrative purposes such as gifs, animated visuals and more advanced solutions;
• Designer should work at his/her place and thus should have all the necessary equipment and software (corel, photoshop, quark, adobe professional) for producing designs/layouts;

UN Women will provide the edited text, basic characteristics and photos for the products.

Deliverables:

• Develop product concept format/design/layout in line with UN Women branding guidelines;
• For each material, at least three versions of a draft designs submitted. UN Women selects one design out of the three suggested options;
• Advice on final specifications for printing;
• Finalized electronic version of the particular product (full size and resized for web up to 2.5 kb) incorporating the inputs and feedback of UN Women;
• keep an archive of all the UN Women designs as well.
• Delivery of the print-ready version of the product to the printing house advised by UN Women and communication with the selected printer on all color separation/print related issues.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Values:

• • Respect for Diversity
• • Integrity
• • Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• University degree (at least Bachelor’s) in visual arts and design or any relevant field;

Experience:

• At least five years of experience as a designer;
• Proved experience in info graphics, data visualization and digital design;

Language:

• Fluency in Georgian and good knowledge of English.

Evaluation Procedure:

The candidates will be evaluated in three stages: according to minimum qualification criteria; technical and financial evaluation.

The candidates must possess following minimum qualification criteria to be eligible for further technical evaluation:

• University degree (at least Bachelor’s) in social sciences, visual arts and design or any relevant field;
• At least five years of professional design experience working in the field of data visualization/information design;
• Fluency in Georgian and English;

The candidates will be evaluated in three stages: according to minimum qualification criteria followed by technical and financial evaluation.

Technical evaluation criteria (including minimum qualifications):

• University degree (at least Bachelor’s) in visual arts and design or any relevant field (max 30 points);
• At least five years of experience as a designer (max 100 points);
• Proven experience of working as info graphics and data visualization and digital design – portfolio should be presented (max 100 points);
• Examples of creative art work in digital design ; (max 90 points);
• Fluency in Georgian and good knowledge of English (max 30 points).

Maximum total technical score amounts to 350 points. Only candidates who have passed over the minimum qualification criteria and have accumulated at least 245 points out of maximum 350 under technical evaluation will qualify for the next stage i.e. evaluation of their financial proposals.

Evaluation of submitted financial offers will be done based on the following formula: S = Fmin / F * 150

S – score received on financial evaluation;

Fmin – the lowest financial offer out of all the submitted offers qualified over the technical evaluation round;

F – financial offer under consideration.

The winning candidate will be the candidate, who has accumulated the highest aggregated score (technical scoring + financial scoring).

Management arrangements:

The selected candidate will report to and work under direct supervision of UN Women Communication Officer and/or Programme Analyst.

Financial arrangements:

Payment will be disbursed upon submission and approval of deliverables and certification by UN Women Communication Officer and/or Programme Specialist that the services have been satisfactory and timely performed.

Application submission package:

• CV;
• Duly filled Personal History Form PHF11 that can be downloaded from https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process
• Proposal in GEL with the relevant budget per hour (infographic, fractographic, animated video, etc);
• Portfolio of the graphic design products

*The applicants are required to submit an aggregated financial offer (“aggregated financial offer” is the total sum of all financial claims of the candidate for accomplishment of all tasks spelled out in this ToR).

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

How to Submit the Application:

• Download and complete the UN Women Personal History Form (P11)- https://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment/application-process
• Merge your UN Women Personal History Form (P11), CV, samples of previous work and the Financial Proposal into a single file. The system does not allow for more than one attachment to be uploaded.
• Click on the Job Title (job vacancy announcement).
• Click 'Apply Now' button, fill in necessary information on the first page, and then click 'Submit Application;'
• Upload your application/single file as indicated above with the merged documents (underlined above).
• You will receive an automatic response to your email confirming receipt of your application by the system.

Notes:

• UN Women retains the right to contact references directly. Due to the large numbers of applications we receive, we are able to inform only the successful candidates about the outcome or status of the selection process.
• Applications without the financial offer will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.
• The individual consultants should take the mandatory learning security course prior to commencement of assignment– details will follow before the issuance of contract.

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel 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 inormation to conduct a background check.).