UNDP Jobs - 73047- National consultant to provide designing services

National consultant to provide designing services for the upcoming three news supplement published in Arabic with Annahar, in English with The Daily Star and in French with L’Orient Le Jour newspapers.

Location :

Beirut, LEBANON

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

29-Jun-17 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

2 Years.

Languages Required :

Arabic English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

2 Years.

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

In Phase I of the Peace Building project, some 40 mid-career TV, radio and print reporters from different local media outlets undertook joint assignments in the field on strategic issues and became better informed of how less “biased” language could be used in their reporting, particularly during conflict.
Many parties wish that more of these supplements would be produced, mainly re-producing the one that dealt with the impact of the Syrian crisis on Lebanon from a socio-economic perspective and that contributed to conveying positive messages to both the host and the refugees' communities.
Building on the success of these supplements and their positive impact communicated through different people and institutions to UNDP, the project is willing to publish four supplements per year on civil peace related issues mainly on the impact of the Syrian crisis on Lebanon and which contribute to the alleviation
of tensions that are developing in this regard and to foster a better social interaction between Lebanese and Syrians and a better social cohesion within Lebanese communities. As before, the project is working with a core group of journalists with whom the project has previously collaborated in previous issues in addition to new journalists, widening the network of journalists involved in a civil peace initiative.
These supplements will be published and distributed for free with Annahar, The Daily Star and L’Orient Le Jour newspapers to readers all over Lebanon, in addition to the wide dissemination on social media.
In this context, the services of a national graphic designer are required.

Duties and Responsibilities

The graphic designer will be undertake of the following activities:

Develop the content and layout of 3 to 4 joint news supplements per year in Arabic;
Design the ready-to-print Arabic version of the joint news supplements that will be published with Annahar;
Design the ready-to-print English version of the designed Arabic news supplements that will be published with The Daily Star;
Design the ready-to-print French version of the designed Arabic news supplements that will be published with L'Orient Le Jour.

The graphic designer will be also responsible of the following tasks:

Setting up page layouts and composition of the news supplements;
Determine size and arrangements of illustrative material to be used for each supplement;
Review final layouts and suggest improvements;
Maintain archive of images, photos, or previous work products;
Produce quality work in a fast-paced environment, meeting deadlines and expectations for creativity and accuracy;
Collaborate with the media coordinator to produce effective and accurate work;
Ensure that all materials included in the supplements are properly prepared for 4-color press outputs.

For additional information, please refer to ANNEX I – Terms of Reference

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Creative, flexible, deadline-oriented and have attention to detail;
Proven inter-personal written and oral communication skills;
Ability to develop ideas from concept to completion.

Corporate Competencies:

Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Kindly refer to the Individual Consultant Procurement Notice and all related Annexes by visiting the below link:

http://www.lb.undp.org/content/lebanon/en/home/operations/procurement/

Please make sure to submit all the requested documents/information; otherwise, your application will be considered incomplete

Required Skills and Experience

Academic Qualifications:

University degree in Graphic design.

Technical experience:

At least 5 years of experience in Graphic designing;
Experience in designing, editing and proofreading ready-to-print news supplements;
Experience in INEWS, Avid Interplay, Vegas, Windows and Mac OS, Adobe, quark express and Corel Draw, Word, Photoshop, HTML, Excel, Illustrator, InDesign, PowerPoint, Mactive;
Experience with UNDP or other National and International NGOs.

Language requirements:

English and Arabic languages are required.

How to Apply:

1. Read the additional information and annexes on teh UNDP lebanon website at http://www.lb.undp.org/content/lebanon/en/home/operations/procurement/

2. The consultancy is open for all National consultants who meet the selection criteria and propose a competitive fee. Interested consultants are requested to apply only through this UNDP jobs portal.

Submissions through any other media will not be considered.

The application must include the P11, technical proposal, Annex 3 (Offerors Letter) and the financial proposal in one single document and uploaded as word or PDF file to the UNDP job site.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.