The Office of Innovation specifically looks to form partnerships around frontier technologies (like drones and UAVs, blockchain, 21st century skills, urban technologies, new banking tools, wearables and sensors, or 3D-Printing) that exist at the intersection of $100 billion business markets and 1 billion person needs – and to identify how they can grow and scale profitably and inclusively.
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 2-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.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation is seeking a Design Specialist to create high quality branded assets while producing strategic yet visually appealing internal and external communications products that help present the narrative promoting our work, engaging a variety of stakeholders across sectors.
The Brand and Design Specialist will work in the Partnerships & Communications team designing an array of assets including but not limited to reports, fact sheets, infographics, slide decks, one-pagers, social media graphics, videos, and other marketing materials.
The Design Specialist will produce assets in alignment with the OOI brand guidelines and will be given access to UNICEF photo and footage inventory, providing strategic guidance on content and assets and informing content gathering and production needs.
Your main responsibilities will be:
Implement UNICEF’s Office of Innovation brand across all communications assets for internal and external audiences and iterate the brand system according to insights and learnings from previous product results.
Ensure consistency in the use of UNICEF’s Office of Innovation brand visuals and narrative across internal and external stakeholders, including internal teams, wider UNICEF networks, and external stakeholders.
Manage the evolution of the UNICEF Office of Innovation brand system in accordance with its strategy and indicators, and through ongoing collaboration with teams and Innovation Hubs on needs.
Manage and update the UNICEF Office of Innovation website for optimal performance; produce coherent web development and update across all OOI functions; ensure brand consistency.
Produce templates, proactively develop designs, animated assets and update a wide range of communication materials including graphics, data visualizations, artwork, infographics, multimedia content and other graphic elements when needed for projects, campaigns and events, in close collaboration with project and technical leads.
Deliver creative, engaging, and effective communications assets for print and digital platforms.
Review and initiate visual improvements to slide decks, briefing notes, reports, and other documents.
Design slide decks, briefing notes, reports, and other documents, creating visualizations, artwork, infographics, and other graphic elements when needed for projects, campaigns, and events, in close collaboration with project and technical leads.
Manage innovation and thematic image and video libraries, documenting additional multimedia content that is produced and developed, including edited videos and gifs along with portfolio-specific materials.
Support the implementation and evolution of the UNICEF Office of Innovation brand for visual display products, merchandise, and any other business needs, as well as branded visual assets for use before, during, and after events and key moments, working closely with teams attending and/or facilitating events.
Develop and manage innovation and thematic image and video libraries, documenting additional multimedia content including edited videos and gifs.
Support the evolution and implementation of the UNICEF Office of Innovation brand in visual display products, merchandise, and any other business needs, as well as branded visual assets for use before, during, and after events and key moments, working closely with teams attending and/or facilitating events.
Design and produce social media and any other public-facing assets.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
A graduate degree in graphic design, communication design, visual design or other relevant fields.
A minimum of 3 years of work experience as a visual / graphic designer.
Work experience with a graphic design studio is an asset.
Advanced knowledge of Adobe CC software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat).
Experience working with Microsoft Suite tools like Office and PowerPoint.
Experience in 2D and 3D animation, storyboarding and illustration, generating user requirements, personas and journey maps.
Creating design systems is considered an asset.
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
