Overview
Design and desktop publish two publication-ready strategic documents: the UN Multi-Country Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework and the Trinidad and Tobago 2025 Common Country Analysis. The role aims to effectively communicate the UN's strategic vision and programming priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and lay out two publication-ready reports (MCSDCF and Trinidad and Tobago 2025 CCA).
- Develop a coherent visual identity for each publication, complying with UN branding guidelines.
- Design covers, title pages, table of contents, and other publication sections.
- Establish consistent typography, colour palette, and style systems.
- Redesign and redraw existing figures, charts, graphs, tables, maps, and conceptual diagrams.
- Create new infographics, data visualizations, and conceptual illustrations.
- Source, curate, edit, and integrate high-quality photographs and visuals.
- Process all photographs and images for screen and print.
- Format all references, footnotes, citations, and bibliographies.
- Prepare publications for digital distribution and high-resolution print production.
- Ensure final files comply with accessibility standards (PDF/UA).
- Incorporate revisions and feedback through up to three rounds of revisions per publication.
- Deliver editable source/working files at the end of the assignment.
- Deliver all outputs in a timely fashion, ensuring accuracy and fidelity to UN branding.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated professional experience in graphic design and desktop publishing, including layout of long-form reports, strategic documents or analytical publications (60+ pages).
- Demonstrated experience in designing publications for the United Nations, other international organizations, governments, or comparable institutional clients is required.
- Demonstrated clientele of local, regional and international clients is required.
- Proven experience in the design and production of data visualizations, infographics, charts and maps from raw data, statistics and analytical text is an asset.
- Experience in producing publications that comply with branding/visibility guidelines (UN, EU, World Bank, IDB or similar) is a strong asset.
- Experience producing accessible PDFs (PDF/UA, tagged PDFs) is an asset.
Qualifications
- Completed secondary education is required.
- Diploma, degree or recognized professional certification in graphic design, visual communication, desktop publishing, fine arts or a related field is an asset.
