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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Design Specialist (Programme Adviser), Stockholm, Sweden