UNICEF Consultant Vacancy in New York for 2025. Apply Today!

Consultant Details
- Position(s): Consultant UX/UI Product Designer
- Organization: UNICEF
- Job no: 578017
- Contract type: Consultant
- Duty Station: New York
- Level: Consultancy
- Location: United States
- Categories: Communication, Partnerships
- Consultancy Title: Consultant – UX/UI Product Designer
- Section/Division/Duty Station: Digital Strategy, Global Communication and Advocacy, UNICEF NYHQ
- Duration: 20 January 2025 to 7 July 2025
- Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote
- Deadline: Jan 5, 2025
Purpose of Activity/ Assignment
UNICEF Consultant Vacancy in New York for 2025. The Product Designer will enable UNICEF’s Digital Governance and Platforms Team to offer clear and engaging web products by crafting, adapting, and enhancing the features available on our web platform.
Scope of Work:
The Product Designer will tackle design specific tasks assigned and estimated during regular sprint planning sessions, in coordination with the Product Owner and Creative Lead, using our Agile Project Management Methodology. The primary work of this consultancy will be to create design specifications and documentation within the UNICEF.org Design System, which is an enterprise-level, component and symbol based Figma library.
The expected results will include the participation in Sprint Planning and Sprint Demo sessions, along with full demonstration of the design task, and proper handover in Figma with notations for Product, Design, and Development teams, as noted above
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Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables
Work Assignment
The Product Designer will work within 12 Design Sprints to deliver design concepts, functional prototypes, and final design specifications for User Interface (UI) elements within the UNICEF Design System. All work will be created in Figma and integrated into the Drupal enterprise system.
Duties per Sprint:
Sprint Planning:
- Attend one Sprint Planning session every two weeks.
- Coordinate with the Product Owner to identify, refine, and estimate design tasks.
- Commit to working on an average of 10–12 user stories per sprint, with each story requiring approximately 5 hours to complete.
Design and Prototyping Create high-fidelity design concepts and interactive prototypes for UI elements.
- Develop final design specifications for inclusion in the UNICEF Design System.
- Ensure all designs adhere to accessibility standards and align with the organization’s branding.
- Review and Handover Finalize and organize Figma files with clear annotations.
- Provide documentation for design handovers to the Product, Design, and Development teams.
Attend Sprint Demo sessions to present completed or in-progress work, including specifications and documentation for review and approval.
Deliverables\Outputs
Sprint 1 – 12:
User Stories Completed:
- An average of 10–12 user stories per sprint completed with detailed design files in Figma.
Design Concepts and Prototypes:
- High-fidelity design concepts and functional prototypes for new or enhanced UI elements.
Design Specifications:
- Finalized design specifications for integration into the UNICEF Design System.
- Properly annotated Figma files, including interaction details, to guide developers.
Design System Documentation:
- Updates to the Design System master file to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Clear documentation for all deliverables, ensuring usability for in-house teams.
Sprint Demos:
- Participation in one Sprint Demo session per sprint to demonstrate completed or in-progress tasks.
Deadlines:
Sprint 1: 3 February 2025
Sprint 2: 17 February 2025
Sprint 3: 3 March 2025
Sprint 4: 17 March 2025
Sprint 5: 31 March 2025
Sprint 6: 14 April 2025
Sprint 7: 28 April 2025
Sprint 8: 12 May 2025
Sprint 9: 26 May 2025
Sprint 10: 9 June 2025
Sprint 11: 23 June 2025
Sprint 12: 7 July 2025
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Requirements
Education:
Advanced university degree (Bachelors) in Graphic design, web design, product design, UX/UI design, or other related field.
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Work experience:
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required :
- An unrelated Bachelor’s Degree with an additional two years of relevant work experience as outlined below, may also be considered with sufficient demonstratable professional experience in UX/UI fields.
- 5 Years or more of relevant professional experience in design (graphic, web, product, user experience).
- A strong digital portfolio demonstrating user experience and user interface design.
- Working knowledge of data visualization and implementing Infographics.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Expert knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator and Photoshop).
- Expert knowledge in Figma and Sketch, especially knowledge of an atomic design based system and working with comprehensive library of symbols.
- Experience working directly with an Enterprise level Design System, with Figma and Drupal system specific experience as an asset.
- Fundamental understanding of CSS, and ability to deliver designs that are feasible in CSS.
- Strong documentation and presentation skills, especially when it comes to handover for technical implementation.
- Experience working with Infogram (or similar tools such as Tableau) for creating embeddable and interactive graphics is considered as an asset.
- Working knowledge of Drupal, or other component-based enterprise content management systems.
- Working knowledge of W3A Accessibility Standards
- Experience working on multilingual sites.
- Experience working in developing countries and/or familiarity with emergencies 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
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