Long Term Agreement (LTA) for Engagement of Individual Consultants as Graphics Designers for Child Protection and Development, Data & Analytics (D&A) Team, DAPM (remote-based)

Title: Long-Term Agreement (LTA) for Engagement of Individual Consultants as Graphic Designers for Child Protection and Development

Duty Station: Remote-based consultancy contracts

Duration of LTA: Two years with the possibility of extension for one more year (max. 3 years)

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. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. 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/RATIONALE

UNICEF’s work in the area of data analysis highlights trends and emphasizes patterns found within the data and suggests how these data can be used strategically to inform evidence-based policy and programmatic efforts. The results of UNICEF’s data analysis work appear in its flagship publications as well as data-driven thematic reports, articles, brochures, documents and other dissemination materials.

Toward this end, the Child Protection and Development Unit (CPD) within the Data and Analytics Section produces data and knowledge products for communication, advocacy, donor relations and fundraising intended both for both internal and external audiences (government/policymakers, media, partner networks, donors and the public) on key thematic issues pertaining to child protection, early childhood development (ECD), children with disabilities and adolescents.  

These high-quality products can include data-driven thematic reports and brochures, technical documents and toolkits, funding/donor proposals and concept notes, digital products, country profiles, PowerPoint presentations, webpage content, etc. that can be global, regional or national in scope. These are disseminated through different channels, including online, print, social media networks etc.

There is an ongoing need for graphic design support to work on the wide variety of data-driven products and publications produced by the CPD Unit. Selected consultants will be eligible for a long-term agreement contract to provide on-demand graphic design support to the CPD Unit.

PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT

To meet these requirements, UNICEF HQ would like to engage the services of consultants to enable the Child Protection and Development Unit to produce high-quality products featuring UNICEF data. Consultants will be responsible for the conceptualization, design, layout, picture selection and typesetting of products and publications, and for ensuring broad alignment with UNICEF design standards and branding. Since most of the products will be data-driven with a number of graphs, maps and figures, the designer will need to produce creative and visually appealing final products which remain accurate and follow best practices for data visualization, in collaboration with members of the CPD Unit.

PROGRAMME AREA AND SPECIFIC PROJECT AREA

Data and statistics in the area of child protection (which includes topics such as birth registration, violence, child labour, harmful traditional practices and children outside of family care), ECD, children with disabilities and adolescents.

OBJECTIVE(S)

The overall objective is to set up a Long-Term Agreement to facilitate and expedite the process by which the UNICEF HQ CPD Unit will hire graphic designers as required for specific projects to develop these high-quality data and knowledge products and publications.

MAJOR TASKS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED

Successful consultants must provide final versions of the products and publications in the relevant format (PDFs or PPTs) as well as the accompanying native InDesign files. Tasks include, but may not be limited to:

1. Conceptualizing creative, original and visually appealing products and publications.
2. Proposing optional colour palettes.
3. Proposing photo selection that is relevant to the topic, geographical focus and adheres to UNICEF guidelines.
4. Designing, laying out and typesetting (where relevant) of products and publications on the basis of provided content (in Word and in Excel for charts/tables etc.)
5. Producing original and v