Result of Service

Advanced development of the United Nations Youth Office website (www.un.org/youthaffairs) via the UNITE Web Platform, hosted via Drupal 9.

Work Location

Office-Based/Remote

Expected duration

2 months

Duties and Responsibilities

Background The United Nations Youth Office plays a lead role in the UN’s efforts on youth development, focusing on raising international awareness of and bringing attention to promoting youth rights and stronger youth participation in formulating, implementing and evaluating the various development, peace and security, human rights and humanitarian frameworks. The UN Youth Office plays a lead role in advancing the roll-out, implementation and monitoring of the UN Youth Strategy, “Youth2030”, that guides the entire UN System’s work with and for young people and seeks to facilitate increased impact and expanded global, regional and country-level action to address the needs, build the agency and advance the rights of young people around the world. Objective and Scope of Work As part of the Partnerships, Advocacy & Communications Section, this position will support the United Nations Youth Office in the development of its new website (www.un.org/youthaffairs). Specifically, the UN Youth Office is recruiting a consultant to lead in developing and populating the office’s web content via the UNITE Web Platform, hosted via Drupal 9. Duties and Responsibilities: The consultant will lead in compiling and drafting content for the new website, working in close coordination with the Partnerships, Advocacy & Communications Team. In addition to drafting new content, the consultant will also work to map and migrate over relevant content from the backend of the website of the former Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth (www.un.org/youthenvoy), which is hosted via WordPress. A primary objective of the website build will be to develop a youth-friendly interface and maximize user experience, coordinating routine user testing throughout the development process. The consultant will also be responsible for working in close coordination with the UN Office of Information and Communication Technology (OICT) and the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC) to ensure full adherence to UN Website Brand Guidelines and UN Accessibility Guidelines. Expected Outputs: 1. Initiate development of the new UN Youth Office website (www.un.org/youthaffairs), working in close coordination with colleagues from across the office to draft and develop content. 2. Migrate over all relevant content for the former Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth website (www.un.org/youthenvoy). 3. Identify relevant design needs for the new website; work with the Communications Specialist (Consultant) to produce necessary assets

Qualifications/special skills

University degree in information technology, communications, social sciences, or any related field is required. A minimum of 5 years of experience in web management platforms, including Drupal 9 is required Previous experience drafting youth-friendly web content is required Familiarity with building a new website and/or migrating web content to a new platform is desirable. Previous experience managing and populating content in the UNITE Web Platform is desirable. Working knowledge of design programmes (e.g. Adobe Photoshop, Canva, etc.) to create and resize digital assets is desirable.

Languages

Fluency in written and spoken English is required and proficiency of other UN Languages is an added advantage.

Additional Information

Not available.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.