Graphic Design (Consultant-English)

Overview:

The Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy (BERA) is responsible for UNDP’s external relations and advocacy functions. The Bureau leads and supports the organization in cultivating, building and nurturing strategic relationships and alliances that are essential for advancing and successfully achieving the mission of UNDP. These relationships encompass a wide range and number of key constituencies and development partners, that includes Programme countries, existing and prospective donor countries/emerging economic powers, multilateral institutions such as the IFIs, the European Commission, civil society, the private sector, foundations, academia and think tanks, the wider UN system, various UN inter-governmental bodies, as well as global, regional and national media.

The Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy comprises the Directorate, including a Strategy and Innovation Unit, and the following groups: Communications; Resource Partnerships and UN System Affairs. In addition, BERA has Representation Offices in five major donor cities: Brussels, Copenhagen, Geneva, Tokyo and Washington.

Within BERA, the Communications Group leads and manages external communications through strategy, media, digital communications, marketing, branding and global storytelling. The Marketing and Outreach Team in the Communications Group creates marketing products and resources to improve UNDP’s communications, ensuring that messages resonate and gather support from audiences that span from government decision-makers to the general public. The team also produces UNDP’s flagship corporate products such as the Illustrated Annual Report and the Funding Compendium.  It also manages the UNDP Shop (online).

Project Description

The Marketing and Outreach team works closely with the other teams in the Communications group to ensure that the tone and visual representation of UNDP branded products are consistent. Reporting to the team manager, the Graphic Design Consultant will be responsible for conceptualizing and creating visual assets for the organization, supporting the team’s mandate.

Objective:

The purpose of this procurement exercise is to contract an individual consultant who acts as a graphic design consultant supporting the Marketing and Outreach Team on corporate marketing priorities.

Details are provided in the Terms of Reference as advertised on UNDP job site VA # 83734 click on  (https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=83734).

Interested bidders are requested to submit their application using the following link: VA # 83734 (https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=83734 as per the instruction in the notice and using templates provided.