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 intergovernmental 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 Digital and Online team is responsible for developing and maintaining UNDP’s digital properties including website, blogs and social media.
The Digital Communications 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 Multimedia Design Consultant will be responsible for conceptualizing and creating social media visual assets for campaigns and international days as well as supporting with multimedia content for mobile and microsites.
Responsibilities:
Deliverables/ Outputs
Estimated Duration and Timeline
Design a series of social media cards and infographics to promote the themes of climate change, poverty/inequality, and migration, mostly linked to UNDP’s COVID-19 work and the #PartnersAtCore campaign;
Weekly
Design a series of social media cards, GIFs, infographics and other visuals for International days;
Weekly
Design a series of social media cards, GIFs, infographics and other visuals to be used before and during HLPF 2020 and the 75th General Assembly;
Weekly
Support the team in the design of microsites and multimedia stories, as needed.
Monthly
Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in design, fine arts or related fields.
Experience:
Languages: Good written and spoken English. Working knowledge of Spanish or French is an asset.
Application requirements:
The application package containing the following (to be uploaded as one file):
Note: The above documents need to be scanned in one file and uploaded to the online application as one document.
Evaluation Process:
Applicants are reviewed based on Required Skills and Experience stated above and based on the technical evaluation criteria outlined below. Applicants will be evaluated based on cumulative scoring. When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
Technical evaluation : Total 70% (70 points):
Criterion
Weight
Criteria A: Design portfolio or design samples;
35 points
Criteria B: Experience in social media campaigns, including design and conceptualization;
25 points
Criteria C: Demonstrated experience in web design;
10 points
TOTAL
70 points
Only the top 3 to 5 candidates with a minimum score of 49 points in technical evaluation (Criteria A to D) will be invited to submit the financial proposal.
Financial evaluation - Total 30%
The following formula will be used to evaluate financial proposal:
p = y (µ/z), where:
Shortlisted candidates (ONLY) will be requested to submit a Financial Proposal.
The Financial Proposal is to be emailed as per the instruction in the separate email that will be sent to shortlisted candidates.
Contract Award:
Candidate obtaining the highest combined scores in the combined score of Technical and Financial evaluation will be considered technically qualified and will be offered to enter into contract with UNDP.
Institutional arrangement:
The consultant will work under the guidance and direct supervision of Digital online Manager and will be responsible for the fulfilment of the deliverables as specified above.
Payment modality:
The work week will be based on 35 hours, i.e. on a 7-hour working day, with core hours being between 9h00 and 18h00 daily.
Annexes (click on the hyperlink to access the documents):
Annex 1 - UNDP P11 Form for ICs
Annex 2 - IC Contract Template
Annex 3 – IC General Terms and Conditions
Annex 4 – RLA Template
Any request for clarification must be sent by email to bera.procurement@undp.org
This vacancy is archived.