Support design of a Policy and Technical Brief

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Overview

Support design and layout of a Policy and Technical Brief documents

You have:

• Professional experience in graphic design with designing document layouts, ideally for technical and policy.
• In-depth knowledge of graphic design applications.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• A degree in graphic design or a related field is considered an asset.

Contract

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The World Water Quality Alliance (WWQA) represents a voluntary, flexible, and global, multi-stakeholder network that advocates the central role of freshwater quality in achieving prosperity and sustainability, convened by UNEP. It explores, monitors, analyses, and communicates water quality risks at global, regional, national, and local levels with the aim of identifying solutions for the maintenance and restoration of the health and well-being of both ecosystems and humans. The WWQA serves countries throughout the lifetime of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and beyond. It provides a participatory platform for water quality assessment and the co-design of tailored and demand-driven services at all levels with a special emphasis on the involvement of local communities and the younger generations whose future is at risk. The efforts of the WWQA are currently divided into 17 active workstreams covering different facets of the water quality challenge to ensure the involvement of society. The World Water Quality Alliance (WWQA) Biodiversity and Biomonitoring and Assessment (BBMA) workstream has been working over the last months to prepare a Technical Brief on “Integrating Bioassessment in the Global Sustainability Agenda” using expert inputs from a series of surveys delivered to biomonitoring experts and practitioners across the world. The WWQA has developed another series of briefs and the task of this assignment would be to work with the WWQA Coordination Team and principal authors of the brief to ensure the brief can be laid out in a manner similar to the series of WWQA policy briefs we have so far developed (on lake restoration and citizen science for SDG indicator 6.3.2). The WWQA has on hand an existing InDesign that should be adapted for this Policy and Technical brief together with support to finalize a few visual diagrams and addition of photos from the authors’ team. This brief is a crucial output of the WWQA BBMA workstream that aims to sensitize policymakers and those in charge of water quality monitoring to increase the uptake of this methodology to minimize the significant data gap we are seeing in water quality monitoring around the world, and facilitate, through better monitoring, the achievement of SDG6.

We are looking for 1 Online Volunteer/s who under the guidance of the WWQA Coordinator and in close collaboration with the WWQA Coordination Team support us by producing 2 of graphic designs for 2 documents (1 longer Technical Brief and 1 shorter policy brief). In particular, the Online Volunteer is asked to: - Develop the design according to agreed requirements, and in line with a design template used for previous WWQA policy and technical briefs. - Liaise with the team of authors for the Policy and Technical brief to obtain images and their credits to be inserted into the final designed version of the Policy and Technical brief - Finalize a few visual diagrams used in the Policy and Technical brief The design/layout should follow and InDesign template of our corporate design guidelines which will be shared withthe Online Volunteers in advance

Candidates should have professional experience in graphic design with previous experience in designing document layouts, ideally for technical and policy, and must have in-depth knowledge of graphicdesign applications, as well as good verbal and written communication skills. A degree in graphic design or a related field is considered an asset.

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