UN Women: Graphic Designer (Retainer), Home based, Consultant

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 centre of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

Asia and the Pacific

UN Women's Regional Asia and the Pacific Regional Office in Bangkok supports and carries out work on (i) expanding women's leadership and participation; (ii) enhancing women's economic empowerment; and (iii) ending violence against women. In addition to the above, UN Women also actively participates and contributes to various UN inter agency processes and collaborates with UN organizations around specific programme areas.

External Relations Unit (ERU)

This position is based within External Relations Unit for the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP). At the regional office, the External Relations Unit oversees building partnerships with private sector entities as well as bilateral partners, non-profit organizations and the media. The External Relations Unit also provides strategic advice and technical support to both the regional office and country offices in Advocacy and Communications in Asia and the Pacific. Regional Communications Specialist will be the consultant’s supervisor.

In this context, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific seeks to hire consultants both national and international as Consultant – Graphic Designer (Retainer). The successful candidates will be offered a retainer type of contract for a minimum of three-year period.

Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work

The consultant will work with UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP), including the Regional Programme staff. The consultant will work closely with UN Women to perform the following tasks:

•    Conceptualize design and layout of high-quality innovative, creative and attention-grabbing materials (print and online), for web-based communications as infographics, Illustrations, reports, web and social media-based campaigns, advocacy initiatives, promotional and training materials, animations, and GIFS as assigned by Programme Managers;  
•    The conceptual design once finalized should be modified, adapted and transformed to other means and mediums easily such as banner (various canvas sizes), promotional material productions, static graphics to animation or vice versa;  
•    The final design should be easy to localize into languages in Asia-Pacific (multiple languages ready package) 
•    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 Programme Managers, Production Specialist and Web Manager of UN Women Headquarters; 
•    If any third-party packages or copyrighted materials are being used in the design package, the proof of purchase, license certificate, and/or license agreement should be presented and agreed upon by UN Women before finalizing the design package.  

Principle
•    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 or design package in such a way that they can be updated and adjusted for future use (all colours, fonts (in TTF or OTF), inserted images, animations or links or any other used resource should be included in the design package; fonts should not be converted to outlines in order to follow further 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.  

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

The time required for the consultancy is estimated at 420 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