Consultancy: Senior UI / UX designer, Office of Innovation, Learning Hub - Helsinki, Finland, Part-time, 60 days (during 2025) (Remote)

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

For every child, innovate

UNICEF's Office of Innovation is driving transformative solutions for global education challenges. We are developing The Learning Cabinet—a pioneering web platform that connects decision-makers in education, particularly in the Global South, with a curated list of EdTech tools tailored to their unique contexts. By providing a vetted list of the safest, most impactful, and scalable tools, together with personalized recommendations, the education decision-makers will be empowered to address the learning crisis more efficiently. To achieve this vision, we seek a Senior UI/UX Designer to shape the user experience and ensure the platform's success. 

Our team  
We're an interdisciplinary team around the world tasked with identifying, prototyping, and scaling new technologies and practices. With our partners, we focus on convening and collaborating on new and different solutions, low- and high-tech, by:  

• Looking at the 2–5-year horizon to evaluate emerging and trending technologies and to see how UNICEF can work with the private sector on doing better business while improving essential services for children. 
• Investing in early-stage solutions that show great potential to positively impact children in the 02-year future including the Venture Fund that invests in open-source technology solutions from start-ups based in UNICEF’s programme countries. 
• Identifying proven solutions that can be implemented at national scale in multiple countries – taking the ideas that help thousands in one country, bringing them to dozens of countries across multiple sectors, and impacting the lives of millions of children.” 

 The Learning Innovation Hub within OOI has recently been established in Helsinki with the mission to radically transform education around the world by making it a wonderful adventure for every child. The Hub contributes to UNICEF’s Reimagine Education initiative and has the bold ambition to become a global “home for the architects of the future of learning” and help solve the learning crisis as well as imagine and develop alternative learning futures for all children. 

How can you make a difference? 

As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience of the Learning Cabinet platform. Your expertise will ensure that the platform is intuitive, engaging, and accessible to education decision-makers worldwide. By creating a seamless and user-friendly interface, you will empower educators to discover and utilize EdTech tools effectively, ultimately improving learning outcomes for children globally. 

Your main responsibilities will be: 

To design the user interface and experience for the following functionalities on the Learning Cabinet platform: 

• Craft user-friendly registration, login, and onboarding processes specifically tailored for education leaders. 
• Design an intuitive interface for showcasing LLM-powered, personalized EdTech tool recommendations. 
• Lead a design sprint to enhance the platform's user experience, involving cross-functional collaboration and user-centric design exercises. 
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the Learning Cabinet's design, ensuring new features and functionalities seamlessly integrate with the platform's aesthetics and user needs. 

 To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

•  A bachelor’s degree in design.
• A strong portfolio showcasing 8+ years of experience in UI/UX design, with a focus on web applications. 
• Mastery of Figma, both building developer ready, responsive designs as well as click prototypes. 
• A deep understanding of user-centered design principles and accessibility standards. 
• Strong background conducting user research