Background

UNDP brings people together within nations and around the world, building partnerships and sharing ways to promote participation, accountability, and effectiveness at all levels. The UNDP Effective Governance Unit partners with and supports the Pacific Island countries covered by the UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji to assist countries in achieving long-term economic and social sustainable growth for their people through the strengthening of governance mechanisms to enable a more equitable distribution of public resources to grassroots communities and the marginalized.

 

The UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji Effective Governance Team assists Pacific governments in strengthening their public institutions, helping countries in their efforts to promote transparency, accountability and prevent and fight corruption, and supporting inclusive participation to ensure that no one is left behind.

To support UNDP in effectively implementing ongoing and new opportunities of engagement in the governance space in the Pacific, UNDP is seeking to recruit a graphic designer to support the knowledge management, advocacy, communications, and publicity activities of the UNDP Pacific Governance team with specific focus on supporting the implementation of transparency, accountability, and anti-corruption activities of UNDP’s Governance Unit in the Pacific.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

The objective of this consultancy is to provide graphic designer services as needed by the Effective Governance Team of UNDP Pacific Office. Specific Deliverables include:

 

  1. Visual identity: To create the visual identity for the project activities according to the provided specifications. This could include (but is not limited to):
  • Banners
  • Pamphlets
  • Posters
  • Brochures
  • Report templates
  • Event materials

 

  1. Knowledge products and project reports: Ensure coherent, powerful, and aesthetic branding of knowledge products for the assigned projects. Including but not limited to:
  • Title/content/concluding pages
  • Selected infographics
  • Accompanying social media cards for report dissemination

 

  1. Communication campaign/products: in line with the respective visual identities and objectives of the projects, participate in the visual design of campaigns and communication products including but not limited to:
  • Media folders
  • Animations
  • Social media cards/visuals
  • Newsletter templates

 

Duration

The long-term agreement consultancy is for a total of 160 days between 5 February to 20 December  2022.

 

 

Estimated Engagement Timelines

Month

No of days of engagement

Feb - 22

10

Mar -22

15

April-22

20

June-22

20

May-21

10

June-22

15

Aug-22

15

Sep-22

15

Oct-22

20

Nov-22

15

Dec- 22

5

TOTAL

160

 

 

Duty Station

The duty station for this assignment is home based. No travel is foreseen.

 

Institutional Arrangement

The Consultant will report to the Project Manager for the work commissioned as specified in each ToR.

 

Contract Arrangement

The successful individual will sign a UNDP Individual Consultant Long Term Agreement.  The engagement will be on an intermittent basis with the stated duration based on the required services. UNDP will issue separate terms of reference and purchase order for each specific assignment as a call-off from this IC LTA. The TOR will outline the expected outputs, and the number of days to be engaged. The outputs of the assignments will be reviewed by the Project Manager.

 

Resources

The Consultant shall use their own resources such as computer and work-space for the course of the assignment.

Competencies

Corporate competencies:

  • Demonstrates integrity and fairness by modelling UN values and ethical standards;
  • Demonstrates professional competence and is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results;
  • Display cultural, gender, nationality, religion and age sensitivity and adaptability.

 

Functional Competencies:

  • Demonstrated ability to work harmoniously in a multi-cultural environment;
  • Ability to work on own initiative as well as a member of a team and to work under pressure;
  • Excellent relationship management;
  • Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation and reporting skills;

Required Skills and Experience

Education

  • University diploma in graphic design, public relations, communications, or relevant field. Master’s degree will be an asset.

 

Experience

  • At least five years of experience delivering graphic design services for reports and various knowledge products to English-speaking external clients on short deadline and with high quality standards
  • Specific experience in producing design products for a wide variety of audience in the Pacific, including weaving in Pacific motifs in designs
  • Past work and products related to design of products on the topics on transparency, accountability, anti-corruption, integrity for audiences in the Pacific will be an advantage
  • Communications/public relations knowledge and experience will be an advantage
  • Experience in working with the UN on graphic design services will be an advantage

 

PRICE PROPOSAL AND SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS

 

Daily Fee

Consultant shall quote an all-inclusive Daily Fee for the contract period. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, communications, consumables, any insurance, etc.) that could be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment are already factored into the daily fee submitted in the proposal.

 

Travel

Under this assignment no travel is foreseen. In the event of unforeseeable travel not anticipated in this TOR, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between UNDP and the Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed. UNDP will provide suitable reimbursement at UNDP rates. UNDP shall not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the Consultant wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using his/her own resources.

 

Payments

Payments shall be done upon verification of completion of deliverables.

 

Cumulative analysis

The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as a) responsive/compliant/acceptable; and b) having received the highest score out of set of weighted technical criteria (70%) and financial criteria (30%). Financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced proposal received by UNDP for the assignment.

 

Technical Evaluation Method and Criteria

The candidates meeting the minimum requirement will be assessed on the following basis:

 

Criteria 1

University diploma in graphic design, public relations, communications, or relevant field. Master’s degree will be an asset.

 

5

Criteria 2

At least five years of experience delivering graphic design services for reports and various knowledge products to English-speaking external clients on short deadline and with high quality standards

 

15

Criteria 3

Specific experience in producing design products for a wide variety of audience in the Pacific, including weaving in Pacific motifs in designs

 

25

Criteria 4

Past work and products related to design of products on the topics on transparency, accountability, anti-corruption, integrity for audiences in the Pacific will be an advantage

 

10

Criteria 5

Communications/public relations knowledge and experience will be an advantage

 

10

Criteria 6

Experience in working with the UN on graphic design services will be an advantage

 

5

Financial offer

30

 

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical points) will be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

 

DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document:

 

  1. Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP (Annex II).
  2. Personal CV, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references.
  3. Portfolio of past work (link to website or attachment) included in CV under separate heading demonstrating variety of prior work;
  4. Financial proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided (Annex II)

 

Individuals applying for this consultancy will be reviewed based on their own individual capacity. The successful individual may sign an Individual Contract with UNDP or request his/her employer to sign a Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA) on their behalf by indicating this in the Offerors letter to Confirming Interest and Availability using Annex II.

 

 

Annexes

 

Proposal Submission

  • All applications must be clearly marked with the title of the consultancy (Graphic Designer-LTA) with reference (PN/FJI/110/21 ) and submitted by 30 December 2021 (Fiji Time)
  • For further information concerning this Terms of Reference, please contact UNDP Pacific Office by email: pts.fj@undp.org

Incomplete applications will not be considered, and only candidates for whom there is further interest will be contacted.