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For every child, the right to Nutrition
The Child Nutrition and Development (CND) Section supports programmes to improve the nutrition, health, well-being and development of adolescent girls, women and children across Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar. To strengthen the documentation and communication of programme results, evidence, innovations and lessons learned, UNICEF Tanzania seeks an individual consultant with expertise in graphic design, report layout and communication materials development. The consultant will translate technical content, programme data, research findings and human-interest stories into high-quality, audience-centred products for print, digital and multimedia platforms. The assignment will support advocacy, knowledge management, donor visibility and resource mobilization.
How can you make a difference?
The scope of this assignment is to design and deliver high-quality knowledge products, communication, advocacy, and donor visibility products that effectively showcase UNICEF’s contribution to improving outcomes for adolescent girls, women, children, and families.
The consultant will provide professional graphic design, layout, branding services for a wide range of products, including reports, case studies, policy briefs, infographics, learning materials, and donor visibility materials. All deliverables will comply with UNICEF’s branding and visual identity guidelines, editorial standards, accessibility requirements, and donor visibility obligations. Through creative and innovative design solutions, the consultant will transform technical content into clear, engaging, and audience-friendly products. This work will strengthen the visibility and influence of Child Nutrition and Development programme interventions; support knowledge sharing and resource mobilization; enhance donor recognition; and ensure that UNICEF’s evidence, achievements, and advocacy messages are communicated consistently, professionally, and effectively across print, digital, and multimedia platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and layout knowledge Management products, including reports, guidelines, policy briefs, case studies, bulletins and learning materials.
- Develop visual communication products, including infographics and banners and other advocacy and visibility materials for print and digital platforms.
- Translate complex technical content and programme evidence into compelling visual formats that are understandable and engaging for diverse audiences.
- Produce specific CND deliverables, including quarterly bulletins, nutrition investment case materials, food-systems communication products, MIYCN guidelines, ECD programme materials, nutrition reports.
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: [
Designer Individual Consultant IM.docx]
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, graphic, visual communications, communications or another relevant technical field.
- Work Experience: At least 3 Years of Experience in designing creative, high-quality communication and advocacy materials across print and digital formats, preferably for UN agencies, NGOs, or international organizations
Skills:
- Advanced skills in industry-standard tools such as Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects) and other relevant design, layout, and animation software.
- Ability to translate advocacy objectives and complex information into compelling visual concepts that resonate with diverse audiences.
- Reports, briefs, infographics, social media assets, banners, event materials and other advocacy/visibility products.
- Demonstrated experience working within established corporate visual identity and branding guidelines, ensuring consistency across different communication products (e.g. UNICEF brandbook).
- Language Requirements: Fluency in English
Desirables:
For every Child, you demonstrate...
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
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