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Designer (Retainer)

Home Based - May require travel

  • Organization: UNWOMEN - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
  • Location: Home Based - May require travel
  • Grade: Consultancy - National Consultant - Locally recruited Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Women's Empowerment and Gender Mainstreaming
    • Documentation and Information Management
  • Closing Date: Closed

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 and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women will lead and coordinate the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It will provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

The UN Women Office in Myanmar focusses on Governance, Peace and Security with a significant component of its work on the current peace process and on post conflict governance reform. This includes research, policy advocacy and capacity building on a spectrum of issues from a gender equality and women’s rights perspective, such as: the international human rights architecture on women, peace and security; the national architecture and process on the same; mediation, ceasefire monitoring; federalism; a women’s agenda for peace; inclusion of women and their priorities in all aspects of the peace process; governance, security and justice sector reform.

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant will work under supervision of Program Manager/s of UN Women Myanmar Office who will be responsible for the quality assurance of the deliverables submitted by the consultant and to ensure the consultant to perform the following tasks:

  • Conceptualize, design and layout high-quality innovative, creative and attention-grabbing materials (print and online), for web-based communications such as Infographic, UN Women’s in-house graphics and illustrations, web-based campaign and advocacy, promotion and training purposes as assigned by respective Programme Managers;
  • Follow UN Women Branding Guidelines and Identity Standards;
  • Liaise with the printing/ production facilities and provide them with all relevant production-related information;
  • Conduct quality control to ensure accurate and high-quality work;
  • Modify, revise and edit materials as required, in consultation with Head of UN Women-Myanmar, Production Specialist and Web Manager of UN Women Headquarter.

PRINCIPLES

  • Advocacy messages should be positive and empowering and reflect the diversity of the Asia-Pacific region in terms of ethnicity, age, gender, etc.;
  • Materials designed in such a way that they can be updated and adjusted for future use (all colours, pantones, fonts, inserted bitmaps or any other used resource should be included in the design package; fonts should not be converted to outlines in order to allow edits and adaptations in the future);
  • Ensuring the design of the materials is consistent with UN Women communications guidelines; UN Women has non-exclusive world rights in perpetuity of all designed submissions and products.

DURATION OF ASSIGNMENT AND DUTY STATION

The time required for the consultancy is estimated at maximum of 100 working days within the period indicated.  The consultant will be engaged under a retainer contract, which facilitates direct engagement of the consultant depending on need and availability within the contract period for a pre-agreed fee. 

SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS

Payment in full upon final submission and satisfactory outputs/products in accordance with specified requirements.

Competencies

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

Required Skills and Experience

  • Minimum educational requirement: secondary education; specific diplomas or technical studies in design or layout is an advantage;
  • At least 5 years of experience in design and layout work;
  • Very good creative skills and advanced command over a full range of graphic design software, including Adobe Suite/CC such as Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
  • Solid understanding of printing and production matters and knowledge of different formats for printing;
  • Strong integrity and respect for diversity, human rights and gender equality;
  • Excellent verbal and written English communications skills;
  • Previous working experience in Asia and the Pacific, knowledge of the UN System, and/or experience designing gender-equality advocacy materials an advantage;
  • Ability to work quickly and responsively and demonstrative initiative.

Interested candidates are encouraged to submit UN Women P11, updated CV and a short summary of your expertise, examples of the designs you created and experiences in related area by 28th January indicating your professional fee in Myanmar Kyats and availability during the period of the consultancy.

Kindly submit application to hr.myanmar@unwomen.org with –cc to thinzar.aung@unwomen.org.

Please be noted that the system only allows 1 attachment per application so please combined all files into one.  In case that is not possible, you can submit the application again with different attachments.

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.

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
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