Overview
Contributes to the design and development of visual communication materials for UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States, including the WPSHA portfolio, ensuring adherence to corporate branding and style guidelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as focal point for Visual communications.
- Maintain brand consistency and provide guidance on visual communications guidelines.
- Lead the development of creative assets for campaigns, international days, and advocacy initiatives.
- Design and create layout knowledge and visibility products for UN Women studies, manuals, toolkits, policy briefs, booklets, newsletter, reports, leaflets, bulletins, flyers and infographics.
- Design new, and update existing social media banners, cards, content etc.
- Provide substantive inputs to the conceptualizing and development of visual and branding identity.
- Conceptualize and develop engaging, user-centered social media communication material and assets.
- Contribute to development of innovative design layouts and high-quality visuals/designs for publications, factsheets, policy briefs, and other promotional and informational material.
- Design presentations, infographics, brochures, posters, reports and other communication materials.
- Design and layout UN Women Regional Office reports and other publications.
- Contribute to shooting and editing short in-house social media friendly videos.
- Work closely with relevant units to develop consistent messaging and a unified visual identity.
- Adapt global visual assets for multicultural contexts and ensure consistency across languages.
- Ensure brand compliance and production quality with external graphic designers or vendors.
- Contribute to improvement of internal document management systems and/or knowledge repositories.
Required Experience
- At least 2 years of professional work experience at the national or international level in graphic design, communications, media operations, and/or advocacy material via various media (i.e. print, video, websites) is required.
- Experience in social media friendly video production from conceptualization to publication on digital channels is required.
- Experience in developing media-facing visual assets and press/event visibility materials is required.
- Experience in graphic design, video editing and relevant softwares, such as: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, Canva, Creative Suite and the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite is required.
- Experience in graphic production from conceptualization to published/printed product with knowledge of printing processes is required.
- Experience working with international organisations or UN system, and familiarity with UN branding guidelines is desirable.
- Experience working with AI-assisted design tools, used ethically and in line with organizational guidance, is desirable.
- Experience in gender equality, women peace, security, and humanitarian affairs is desirable.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in graphic design, communications, public relations, journalism or relevant field is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
