Open Source Design: Governance research and documentation project

Open Source Design – Governance and Organization project — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:22:48 +0000

Organization: Open Source Design – Governance and Organization project

Status: closed

Compensation: paid

Role: Governance, documentation, user/stakeholder interviews, research, project support,

Please see this document for the full job description: https://cloud.opensourcedesign.net/s/Ly6WTWYg4Gn5aQT

Open Source Design (OSD) is a community of designers and developers pushing for more open design processes and improving the user experience and interface design of open-source software.

OSD received funding to explore and evolve the governance, decision making and organizational structure of the OSS community project. We expect some open sourced documents/writing to be published, some updates/information to be documented on our Github organisations/repositories and research documents to be produced.

We are looking for support in exploring and understanding governance broadly for Open Source Design. You can find some background details in this repo https://github.com/Erioldoesdesign/open-source-design-community-governance/blob/main/the-state-of-open-source-designs-community-and-governance.md

We’re looking for people with experience of governance processes and decision making across volunteer communities to carry out research and discussions that lead to an understanding of where OSD’s governance and decision making can be added to, changed and improved in order to build and implement a resilient, sustainable, equitable and respectful process that can ensure OSD’s community can clearly understand what and why the community focuses on, with what resources and have clear pathways to connection and contribution.

We’re asking for simple indicators of interest from people wanting to take on this work in the form of either written answers to the following questions or any other formats (audio/video) that the applicants may find more comfortable.

Question 1: Have you any public examples of helping community groups through governance and decision making process that you can share or any brief descriptions you can offer?

Question 2: Briefly (no more than 200-500 written words) describe your thoughts on approaching this work from what you’ve read in this project posting so far? What questions/challenges come up for you about the nature of this work and how do you intend to explore those?

Please don’t send an overwhelming amount of information or evidence. We want to see how you respond to these questions and not benchmark based on impressive sounding prior clients. Please keep clarifying questions to a single email thread if needed. If we have follow up questions or clarifications we’ll reach out for or additional information. Please do not request calls with any of the OSD members about this work.

Applications will be assessed based on the answers to the above questions and evidence of public example/s from question one. The OSD governance committee of 5+ people will assess these via private discussion.

Applications will close on 15th of May 2026

Candidates will receive feedback by June 15th 2026

How to Apply:

**erioldoesdesign@gmail.com** OSD Governance Advisory committee chat group (access given once a individual has been selected) The selected candidate will ‘report’ to the wider community of open source design. There are no management ‘approval’ processes where a specific member will ‘sign off’ on the work. The work will reach a state that the OSD community can continue with and meets as reasonable an amount of ‘approval’ as feasible in the current decision making processes.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/osd_introduction_to_open_source_design/ https://opensourcedesign.net/ (Specifically the goals and manifesto pages) https://opencollective.com/opensourcedesign https://github.com/Erioldoesdesign/open-source-design-community-governance/blob/main/the-state-of-open-source-designs-community-and-governance.md

Design Specialist (Programme Adviser), Stockholm, Sweden

UNICEF Office of Innovation — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:03:39 +0000

Organization: UNICEF Office of Innovation

Status: filled

Compensation: paid

Role: Design strategy

Level: P-3
Location: Sweden

The Office of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyze UNICEF’s and all its partners’ expertise and resources against key children-outcomes bottlenecks, with a view to continuously ideate and scale the most effective solutions with transformational potential at scale to achieve the child-related SDGs.

The office is doing this by continuously exploring new ways of accelerating results for children, investing across a range of early-stage open source solutions, and harnessing internal and external expertise towards continuously iterating and fine-tuning the most promising solutions for children through a systematic portfolio management approach, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation energy, know-how and resources from intergovernmental, multilateral, private sector and non-governmental fora (think tank, academia).

Deliverables and key tasks detailed further below. Role expected to work from new office location in Stockholm, Sweden. Relocation assistance available.

To qualify you need:

A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in communication strategy, design strategy, media design, digital and print design, service design, systems design or related – and proven experience in translating complex ideas into unified storytelling visuals.
An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in interaction design, product design, human-computer interaction, information design and information architecture or other relevant field.
- A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Skills and background needed:

Experience with leading creative teams on multiple projects of varying degrees and timelines and managing design resources and capacity.
Experience in developing design-related strategies and approaches, including defining staffing needs and developing teams and building capacity.
Experience in independently managing and following through multiple projects and teams simultaneously, including establishment of systems to manage competing demands.
Technical knowledge of digital public goods and open source solutions and of specific design challenges related to prototyping and piloting frontier technology solutions and in low-resource settings.
A portfolio which exemplifies strong work for both print and web, which shows both strong research, processes and attention to detail.
Design skills across the print and digital spectrum and professional-level knowledge of design platforms like Adobe Creative Suite.
Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of web and mobile technologies and experience that extends beyond-screen based designs.
Experience working in complex, resource poor contexts is a plus
Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.

How to Apply:

_Submit an application via the link_
https://jobs.unicef.org/en-us/job/547064/design-specialist-programme-adviser-p3-ta-office-of-innovation-stockholm-sweden-00118612

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Open Source Design: Governance research and documentation project

Design Specialist (Programme Adviser), Stockholm, Sweden