Graphic/Visual Designer at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Duties and Responsibilities

• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. UNEP's mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action.
• To support its work on resource mobilization from UNEP Member States and to implement the related communication & outreach action plan, UNEP is looking for a consultant with expertise in graphic design to provide high-quality, original graphic design illustrations, layout and web-based services. This consultancy position is home-based, administered by the Corporate Services Division, Public Sector Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Unit at the UNEP in Nairobi, Kenya.

Responsibilities

The consultant would be working under the overall supervision of the Programme Officer/ Resource Mobilization and Outreach Specialist, P4. The requested services and products include:

• Regular updates of different language versions of booklet UNEP Your Partner for People and Planet as needed
• Updates and redesigns of existing factsheets
• Visualization of selected key messages in support of resource mobilization
• Power point presentations – for funding events and for training purposes
• Financial data illustrations and templates that can be used across different products
• Social media illustrations in support of resource mobilization and to communicate the narrative of ‘UNEP, your partner of choice’
• Create webpage elements both for internal and external web, such as web friendly infographics on funding status, rankings etc. and web banner illustrations
• Create a collection of design elements and illustrations in png-format that can be used for different purposes/products across the team
• Other graphic design work as requested and agreed to.

Qualifications/special Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, visual communication, graphic design or related fields is required.
• Minimum of seven years of experience in typographic design, publishing, data visualization, branding, logo creation or related field is required.
• Experience in developing design proposals for clients, motion graphics, social media graphics, posters, factsheets and web graphics.
• Proven ability to layout and design long form reports in a user-friendly and visually appealing format.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy position fluency in English is required.