Graphic Designer (Individual Consultant), Tajikistan

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• Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
• Country: Tajikistan
• City: Dushanbe

Closing date: Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Job no: 494618
Work type: Consultancy
Location: Tajikistan
Categories: Communication / External Relations

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.
Background

Tajikistan Country Office (CO) intends to build a strong partnership for Child Rights with mass media, national and local government, civil society and other development partners. To pursue this intention, the CO publishes a wide range of materials. UNICEF Tajikistan is planning to contract a Graphic Designer/Consultancy on an on-call basis, to help the office meet its growing need for quality design services. The successful entity will provide technical support to the Communication section in designing UNICEF publications and contribute to the development and improvement of the design, branding, and layout of materials produced by UNICEF. It will ensure that CO's products and reports are following UNICEF graphic guidelines, provide the best possible functionality and usability to UNICEF partners and contribute to the overall branding process.
The responsibility of this consultancy is to ensure the implementation and maintenance of existing graphic guidelines; the layout of reports and publications in English, Tajik and Russian; development of new graphic solutions; and design of innovative products.
Tasks and Responsibilities
Adhere to UNICEF's branding policy:

• Ensure that all publications, reports, and products are produced in line with UNICEF graphic guidelines;
• Implement the graphic guidelines in all UNICEF communication products;
• Deliver creative and innovative ideas for print, electronic, web-based and interactive presentations.

Design and lay-out of reports and other products:

• Design of reports and other communication materials for printing and electronic distribution;
• Layout monthly, quarterly and other recurrent reports in close cooperation with the communication section;
• Improve and edit art-work, photos, charts and other graphic elements;
• Layout and design information and quality communication materials (banners, posters, booklets, leaflets, books, calendars, bulletins, flyers, cards)
• Create animations for illustrative purposes such as animations, presentations and more advanced solutions (design of CD/DVD packaging, graphic digitalization);
• Custom photo editing (restoration, noise reduction, tonal adjustment)
• Deliver creative graphic and technical solutions for use of new media (virtual 3D words/boxes, postcards)

Detailed specifications for each individual assignment will be provided to the selected designer each time when the designer's services are requested. Qualification and Expertise
The successful entity is required to have the following:

• Strong theoretical and practical background in graphic design, including the design software such as Adobe Design Premium package and In-Design, CorelDraw, web design tools such as Dreamweaver and Flash, etc.
• Show a clear and mature style of design, demonstrating an understanding of the communication requirements of a UN agency.
• Proven experience of graphic production from start to published/printed product with knowledge of printing processes (offset and digital) and colour management;
• Good understanding of new and evolving technologies and digital platforms;
• Knowledge of standard software packages (MS Office- MS Access-MS Visio -Adobe Acrobat);
• Working experience in development or humanitarian environment is desirable

Individuals should provide the following:

• CV and copy of passport;
• References list;
• Copy of catalogue or samples of the design work, if available;
• Functioning banking account and be able to present a relevant certificate;
• State tax number (INN) and be able to present a relevant certificate;
• Completed fees/price list based on the attached volume/type of services (Annex 1).

Deliverables:

Quality design for various UNICEF assignments completed in line with UNICEF branding requirements and within specified deadlines.
Contract duration:
The contract will be effective from the date of signing and upon successful performance will be extended to the following year.
Terms and conditions of payment:
Design services will be delivered on an on-call basis and paid in local currently upon successful completion of the assignment (as certified by the requesting section). The actual costs of services will be paid by the section requesting these services.
No travel expenses involved.
Competencies of Successful Candidate
Please indicate your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.
Advertised: Apr 18 2016 West Asia Standard Time
Application close: Apr 27 2016 West Asia Standard Time