New Consultancy : Business Case Designer Consultant, WCARO Dakar, Senegal, 12 Months (Remote/Work from home)

The UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office is looking for consultancy to Provide quality creative and compelling design & layout services for user-friendly products to be used by the Regional Office or specific Country Offices within the UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office and Region to help them achieve their strategic goals.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

For every child, Hope

Purpose of Activity/Assignment

Provide quality creative and compelling design & layout services for user-friendly products to be used by the Regional Office or specific Country Offices within the UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office and Region to help them achieve their strategic goals.

Under the guidance of the Partnership Specialist, the consultant will undertake the following tasks in accordance with the UNICEF's Global Brand Guidelines and Graphics Manual.

Products can include but are not limited to business cases, pitches, proposals, infographics, power-point presentations, internal bulletins, policy notes, or promotional updates. No printing service is needed in this consultancy assignment. E-version of documents/materials would be the final products.

How can you make a difference? 

Scope of Work:

The design, copy checking and formatting of Regional or Country Office products including but not limited to business cases, policy notes, resource mobilization proposals, infographics, promotional documents and internal communication bulletins. These can be for internal or external audience needs. The themes include the regions Key Results for Children, global priority thematic areas, cross-sectoral and emergency proposals that require swift action and tight deadlines.

We would require external products to be both user friendly and accessible to audiences with disabilities and for some external products, for there to be interactive visual maps and diagrams, compelling for the specific audience.

Support to Country Offices with design layout templates will be required.

Work Assignments Overview	Deliverables/Outputs	Delivery deadline
The design of a suite of products (static, interactive or / and accessible where required) to be utilized to support external resource mobilization or internal promotion and advocacy of key workstreams.	10 designed products	The first 4 products by 30 June 2025 The remaining 6 products by 31 December 2025
A portfolio of master templates to guide Country Offices and Regional Office Sections on structuring content.	A minimum of two master templates	By December 2025

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

• An university degree 
• Track record in producing external proposals or business cases for a range of clients, including NGOs and / or UN agencies
• Expertise in mastering design software systems
• Managing demanding deadlines and essential to be calm under pressure, especially in emergency situations when products are required at speed for external use
• Attention to detail is key to ensure editing is sound and integrated into all drafts
• Excellent coordination with various stakeholders at different managerial levels
• Experience/Knowledge in international development is an asset
• Ability and experience in creating interactive designs and infographics
• Experience in producing communication campaign and advocacy materials
• Ability to integrate accessibility within external proposals and products to enable inclusivity
• Fluency in English is required. French is an asset

Application Requirements

• Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system /Resume
• Academic credentials/certificates
• Consultancy proposal
• Financial proposal that will include:
  • Costs for each deliverable and total all-inclusive (lump sum) fees for the whole assignment
  • Travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per ToR
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable
• Previously relevant consultancy products & final evaluations (if available)
• Indicate your availability
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold. payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

To view our competency framework, please visit  here. 

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check. 

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.