The United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the world’s environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the environment.

Summary

This consultancy is in UNEP’s Corporate Services Division, Enterprise Solutions Section at the Nairobi duty station, fully working in the office. The incumbent will report to the Information Systems Officer and DevOps team lead, with overall supervision by the Chief Enterprise Solutions Section, and will be responsible for the following duties:

Responsibilities

• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core and new functions and features.
• Lead the development of design specifications, the creation of design assets, inventories, acceptance criteria, and other work products used in support of the final implementation.
• Create graphic and layout designs for the web application and systems being developed and maintained by ESS.
• Design, document, maintain and develop further our design systems and branding assets.
• Help create internal and client-facing deliverables (recording action points, analysis briefs, wireframes, flow diagrams, prototypes, and software requirements) that ensure understanding, collaboration, and, ultimately, a working software solution.
• Understand pain points and create simple solutions with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) mindset.
• Plan and implement design projects such as user interviews, surveys, and other design project methods.
• Produce beautiful, intuitive user interfaces for our engineering team to implement.
• Conduct UX research and design and iterate on user interfaces for web and mobile.

Requirements

Qualifications/special skills

• A bachelor’s degree in creative design, Communications, Journalism, Mass Communication or Marketing, Fine Arts, Social Sciences, or similar qualification from a globally recognized school/university is required.
• At least 2 years work experience in the field of graphic design providing creative and innovative solutions is required.
• Working experience with Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills is desirable.
• Working experience in standard UX software such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, In Vision, UX Pin, and Framer is desirable.
• Working experience working on design software such as Adobe Creative Suite and
• wireframe tools (e.g. Wireframe. cc and InVision) is highly desirable.
• Prior experience working with UN organizations is desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.