About UNICEF

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere. Over the decades, UNICEF has worked to protect the rights of children of all ages — from earliest childhood through adolescence – and will continue to deliver for all children and adolescents under the five goal areas of the Strategic Plan. In recent years, UNICEF’s work to support the unique needs of adolescents has gained momentum, as the challenges facing them have come more sharply into view. The second decade of life is a time of tremendous opportunity – but for far too many adolescents, great risk and increasing challenges.

Building on work across the UN with and for young people, and in line with the UN Youth Strategy, UNICEF in 2018 launched a new global partnership dedicated to skilling and connecting young people, aged 10-24, to opportunities in employment, entrepreneurship and social impact.  Generation Unlimited (GenU) is centered on finding new ways to ensure that every young person is in school, learning, training, or employment by 2030 — with a focus on those in the greatest danger of being left behind, including girls, the poorest, those with disabilities, young people on the move and those affected by conflict and natural disasters. This partnership brings together leaders from governments, UN agencies, the private sector, academia, international and civil society organizations, and young people to identify, co-create and scale up innovative solutions to expand opportunities for youth. Young people participate meaningfully in the co-creation of solutions by informing, advising, and helping in implementation every step of the way.

To drive awareness and advocacy around the youth skills-to-opportunity gap and secure action and investment to better prepare young people for the future of work and life, GenU requires the services and expertise of a design consultant to create visual communications materials optimized for engaging partners and advocates internally and externally during specific events and moments.

The consultant will be paid on receipt of each deliverable as outlined below. This is a remote assignment.

Scope of Work:

Under the supervision of the GenU Communications Manager, the Design Consultant will craft and deliver customized presentations and graphics aimed at specific audiences, visualize data and stories for digital and social media, design pitch decks and communications materials for events and key meetings.

The consultant will be responsible for:

1. Delivering fully designed annual year in review report and partner/donor reports
2. Delivering design materials for GenU’s Board and Global Leadership Council meetings
3. Designing templates for social media content for key flagship campaigns
4. Designing pitch decks and factsheets on partnerships and programmes

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Deliverable 1: Prepare annual year in review report

By 15 May 2024

Deliverable 2: Prepare Trust Fund report for donors

By 15 June 2024

Deliverable 3: Prepare report on the Girls’ Education Skills Partnership

By 20 March 2025

Deliverable 4: Prepare report on The Green Rising initiative

By 28 February 2025

Deliverable 5: Pre-read document for Board Meeting x 4

By 5 June 2024 (Q2)

By 5 September 2024 (Q3)

By 5 December 2024 (Q4)

By 7 March 2025 (Q1)

Deliverable 6: E-invite for Board Meetings x 4

By 7 June 2024 (Q2)

By 7 September 2024 (Q3)

By 6 December 2024 (Q4)

By 9 March 2025 (Q1)

Deliverable 7: Digital or in-room displays for Board Meeting x 4

By 10 June 2024 (Q2)

By 10 September 2024 (Q3)

By 8 December 2024 (Q4)

By 11 March 2025 (Q1)

Deliverable 8: Pre-read document for Global Leadership Council x 2

By 10 September 2024 (Q3)

By 11 March 2025 (Q1)

Deliverable 9: E-invite for Global Leadership Council x 2

By 5 September 2024 (Q3)

By 10 March 2025 (Q1)

Deliverable 10: Digital or in-room displays for the Global Leadership Council x 2

By 6 September 2024 (Q3)

By 13 March 2025 (Q1)

Deliverable 11: Pop-up banner on theme for Global Leadership Council Q3

By 8 September 2024

Deliverable 12: Photo booth frame for venue at Global Leadership Council Q3

By 8 September 2024

Deliverable 13: Four social media templates (poster, quote cards, graphic cards) for Global Leadership Council x 2

By 10 September 2024 (Q3)

By 15 March 2025 (Q1)

Deliverable 14: Design email newsletter layout for Global Leadership Council x 2

By 24 September 2024 (Q3)

By 24 May 2024 (Q2)

Deliverable 15: Pitch deck and single-pager factsheet on The Green Rising

By 1 October 2024

Qualifications

Education:

• Bacherlors in Design, illustration, communications, marketing, social science or related creative field.

Work experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in graphic design and digital storytelling.
• Experience designing for UNICEF or other United Nations agencies and familiarity with UNICEF’s branding and style guidelines is essential is essential.

Competencies/Knowledge:

• Expert level creative skills in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign software with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• Familiarity with Canvas Pro or similar and exporting Adobe files to Canva is desirable.
• Experience working remotely.
•  Ability to work collaboratively between multiple teams and time zones.

Language proficiency:

• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Work samples:

• Portfolio required that shows examples of printed and digital collateral featuring a designed layout of a report, event poster, infographic or template for social media and a PowerPoint presentation or similar deck.

Requirements: 

Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and

• Upload copy of academic credentials
• Financial proposal that will include/ reflect:
  • the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
  • travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
  • Indicate your availability
• Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory 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.

U.S. Visa information:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. View our competency framework at Here

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:  Individuals engaged under a consultancy 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. Consultants 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.