Design Specialist (Programme Adviser), Stockholm, Sweden

• Level: P-3
• Location: Sweden

The Office of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyze UNICEF’s and all its partners’ expertise and resources against key children-outcomes bottlenecks, with a view to continuously ideate and scale the most effective solutions with transformational potential at scale to achieve the child-related SDGs.

The office is doing this by continuously exploring new ways of accelerating results for children, investing across a range of early-stage open source solutions, and harnessing internal and external expertise towards continuously iterating and fine-tuning the most promising solutions for children through a systematic portfolio management approach, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation energy, know-how and resources from intergovernmental, multilateral, private sector and non-governmental fora (think tank, academia).

Deliverables and key tasks detailed further below. Role expected to work from new office location in Stockholm, Sweden. Relocation assistance available.

To qualify you need:

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in communication strategy, design strategy, media design, digital and print design, service design, systems design or related – and proven experience in translating complex ideas into unified storytelling visuals.
• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in interaction design, product design, human-computer interaction, information design and information architecture or other relevant field.
  • A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Skills and background needed:

• Experience with leading creative teams on multiple projects of varying degrees and timelines and managing design resources and capacity.
• Experience in developing design-related strategies and approaches, including defining staffing needs and developing teams and building capacity.
• Experience in independently managing and following through multiple projects and teams simultaneously, including establishment of systems to manage competing demands.
• Technical knowledge of digital public goods and open source solutions and of specific design challenges related to prototyping and piloting frontier technology solutions and in low-resource settings.
• A portfolio which exemplifies strong work for both print and web, which shows both strong research, processes and attention to detail.
• Design skills across the print and digital spectrum and professional-level knowledge of design platforms like Adobe Creative Suite.
• Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of web and mobile technologies and experience that extends beyond-screen based designs.
• Experience working in complex, resource poor contexts is a plus
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.