Empowering Children Through Play: UNICEF Remote Consultant Vacancy for Healing Design
Empowering Children Through Play: UNICEF Remote Consultant Vacancy for Healing Design
- Job no: 580948
- Contract type: Consultant
- Duty Station: Amman
- Level: Consultancy
- Location: Jordan
- Categories: Child Protection
- Deadline: May 5, 2025
UNICEF seeks a Play and Heal Design Coordinator to lead innovative strategies for remote consultations. This role focuses on enhancing children’s well-being through play, fostering resilience, creativity, and emotional recovery in diverse contexts worldwide. The Play and Heal project is targeting children with mental health and psychosocial support needs following the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and Northwest Syria and the protracted humanitarian crisis and recent conflict escalation in Lebanon. The project supports the most vulnerable children, including refugee children, by integrating play based facilitated activities that target mental health outcomes in UNICEF’s emergency response and Early Childhood Development, Education, and Child Protection Programmes, with the aim of providing children at risk of poor mental health with emotionally safe and healing experiences.
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Responsibilities
- Oversee Creative Direction- Ensure all toolkit assets are intuitive, clear, and cohesive, maintaining creative integrity and consistency with the Play & Heal concept
- Ensure Alignment with Play-Based Approaches- Embed play-based knowledge across activities and training materials by generating new ideas, shaping content, and guiding refinements to ensure play is embedded purposefully to support the healing goals.
- Guide Pilot Testing & Translate Insights into Actionable Recommendations- Plan and design the pilot process from a user journey perspective, develop data collection tools, and analyze feedback from country offices to identify patterns and generate recommendations for content and design updates.
- Support Strategic Communication & Project Closure- Capture and communicate the Play&Heal design journey by drafting final narrative inputs for reporting and supporting the creation of visual materials that promote the project’s process, vision and outcomes.
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Requirements
- Advanced university degree (Masters) in Product Design, Graphic Design, Project Management, or similar..
- 7 years’ experience in designing products and communication tools for children and adults, proven experience in play-based design and mental health support for children in humanitarian crises.
- Technical experience in managing projects, convening multiple actors with diverse backgrounds for multi-sectoral projects in tight timelines.
- Expertise in human centred design in childhood and play based settings is preferred.
- Fluency in written and spoken English required, Arabic speaking is an advantage.
