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Junior Graphic Designer

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Contract type: Consultancy

Application deadline: 28 October 2024, at 11.55 pm CET

Link to apply via UNICEF Portal

Summary

​​Giga is seeking a talented and motivated Junior Graphic Designer to join our Design team. This role will provide the opportunity to work across various facets of our design work collaborating with cross-functional teams to create effective designs that elevate our Giga Brand and the ongoing development of the Giga Product Suite.

The candidate will be working with Giga’s Design Team in a hybrid manner across both Brand Design and Product Design, together with UX and UI designers, Design Lead, and other Graphic Designers (Communications team). We are a small, multi-tasking creative team working in an agile way in developing multiple products in an ambitious tech startup environment. The team often collaborates with external agencies and companies as part of the design production.

Giga takes large ideas and makes them a reality; so being able to communicate complex and abstract ideas using data-driven decisions and clear visual, verbal, and written language is crucial. The candidate should exemplify strong creative and conceptual thinking and expertise in graphic design for digital and print mediums.

Your responsibilities will be…

Brand Design:

    • Assist in maintaining and evolving the Giga Brand guidelines.
    • Be part of conceptualizing creative concepts.
    • Design visual identities, both for tech products and other initiatives.
    • Design illustrations and high-quality graphic design for various platforms.
    • Develop animation design that enriches our storytelling.
    • Create data visualizations that translate complex information into engaging visuals. 
    • Occasionally support the Communications team in developing creative concepts for their marketing material and social media.
    • Layout design for presentations, reports, and publications.
    • Evolve the Giga Design Library with templates, photography, icons etc.

Product Design:

    • Develop Creative Concepts that support product designers (UX and UI) and Tech Team in enhancing our product offers and raising delight in our users.
    • UI Design: Contribute to the design of user-friendly interfaces that are both intuitive and visually appealing.
    • Creative Coding: Use code to create dynamic and interactive visual experiences for users.
    • Develop motion graphics that enhance user engagement and storytelling.
    • Participate in feedback on design iterations.
    • Support the larger Giga Team with their ongoing graphic design needs.

Please access the full Term of Reference (ToRs) and read a more detailed description of the assignment in this file in order to prepare your financial proposal and know more about the role: Junior Graphic Designer.pdf.

To qualify for this position, you will have…
  • A bachelor’s degree in graphic design, Visual Arts, UI, Web Design, or a related field. *A master’s degree in same related field is an asset.
  • Proficiency in design software such as Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and Figma is required.
  • Knowledge of HTML/CSS and web design principles are required.
  • Minimum 2 years of professional work experience in brand design, graphics or product design, or a related field.
  • Strong portfolio showcasing a variety of design projects, including branding,
  • digital media, and product design is required.
  • Previous professional work experience in in tech or innovation environments are an asset.
Travel:
  • The consultant is expected to travel to Geneva one time (1 trip), for a stay of 5 nights.
  • The consultant is responsible for arranging his/her own travel, including visa and travel insurance.
Payment details and further considerations:
  • Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.
  • The consultant is responsible for his/her own health and travel insurance.
  • The consultant is responsible for arranging his/her own travel, including visa.
How to apply:
  • Interested applicants are required to submit a financial proposal with an all-inclusive fee.  Please see the financial proposal template here: Download File Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
  • Financial proposal must include travel costs (economy class) and daily subsistence allowance, if travel is required as per TOR and any other estimated costs: visa, travel/health insurance.
  • Applications without a financial proposal will not be considered.
About our team

We are a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, finance specialists, data scientists, policy experts, and much more. Our team is a distributed workforce and plans to remain distributed into the foreseeable future. We are growing fast. Our team has grown by over 400% in the last 6 months as we rapidly scale to meet our stated mission.

About Giga

Giga is a joint initiative of UNICEF and ITU to connect every school in the world to the Internet by 2030. Working with corporate and non-profit partners, Giga maps schools’ Internet access in real time, creates models for innovative financing, and supports governments contracting for connectivity. It is part of ITU’s Partner2 Connect Coalition, UNICEF’s Reimagine Education initiative, and the UN Secretary General’s Common Agenda and Roadmap for Digital Cooperation 

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About UNICEF

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up. 

UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives. 

About ITU

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), driving innovation in ICTs together with 193 Member States and a membership of over 900 companies, universities, and international and regional organizations.