UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, innovate

UNICEF’s Office of Innovation is driving transformative solutions for global education challenges. We are developing The Learning Cabinet—a pioneering web platform that connects decision-makers in education, particularly in the Global South, with a curated list of EdTech tools tailored to their unique contexts. By providing a vetted list of the safest, most impactful, and scalable tools, together with personalized recommendations, the education decision-makers will be empowered to address the learning crisis more efficiently. To achieve this vision, we seek a Senior UI/UX Designer to shape the user experience and ensure the platform’s success.

Our team
We’re an interdisciplinary team around the world tasked with identifying, prototyping, and scaling new technologies and practices. With our partners, we focus on convening and collaborating on new and different solutions, low- and high-tech, by:

• Looking at the 2–5-year horizon to evaluate emerging and trending technologies and to see how UNICEF can work with the private sector on doing better business while improving essential services for children.
• Investing in early-stage solutions that show great potential to positively impact children in the 02-year future including the Venture Fund that invests in open-source technology solutions from start-ups based in UNICEF’s programme countries.
• Identifying proven solutions that can be implemented at national scale in multiple countries – taking the ideas that help thousands in one country, bringing them to dozens of countries across multiple sectors, and impacting the lives of millions of children.”

The Learning Innovation Hub within OOI has recently been established in Helsinki with the mission to radically transform education around the world by making it a wonderful adventure for every child. The Hub contributes to UNICEF’s Reimagine Education initiative and has the bold ambition to become a global “home for the architects of the future of learning” and help solve the learning crisis as well as imagine and develop alternative learning futures for all children.

How can you make a difference?

As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience of the Learning Cabinet platform. Your expertise will ensure that the platform is intuitive, engaging, and accessible to education decision-makers worldwide. By creating a seamless and user-friendly interface, you will empower educators to discover and utilize EdTech tools effectively, ultimately improving learning outcomes for children globally.

Your main responsibilities will be:

To design the user interface and experience for the following functionalities on the Learning Cabinet platform:

• Craft user-friendly registration, login, and onboarding processes specifically tailored for education leaders.
• Design an intuitive interface for showcasing LLM-powered, personalized EdTech tool recommendations.
• Lead a design sprint to enhance the platform’s user experience, involving cross-functional collaboration and user-centric design exercises.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the Learning Cabinet’s design, ensuring new features and functionalities seamlessly integrate with the platform’s aesthetics and user needs.

 To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

•  A bachelor’s degree in design.
• A strong portfolio showcasing 8+ years of experience in UI/UX design, with a focus on web applications.
• Mastery of Figma, both building developer ready, responsive designs as well as click prototypes.
• A deep understanding of user-centered design principles and accessibility standards.
• Strong background conducting user research and applying human-centered design principles to your work, including proven experience in gathering insights and ensuring user needs are central to your design process.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a global, cross-functional team.

 Travel:

• Travel is expected for a 3-day design sprint / workshop in Helsinki, Finland

Payment details and further considerations

• Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.
• Payments can be structured on a flexible basis, allowing for partial disbursements, such as monthly progress achievements. Partial progress towards deliverables will be measured through agile sprint goals completed in a satisfactory manner and approved by the product manager.

How to apply: 

• Provide a portfolio that showcases a selection of your most impactful web design projects where you held a leading role or were primarily responsible for the design outcomes. Highlight the unique challenges you faced and the creative solutions you implemented to achieve exceptional user experiences.
• Interested applicant is required to submit a financial proposal with all-inclusive fee.  Please see the financial proposal template.
• Financial proposal must include travel costs (economy class) and daily subsistence allowance, if travel is required as per TOR and any other estimated costs: visa, travel/health insurance.
• Applications without a financial proposal will not be considered.   Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx

For more information, please access the full ToR here:  Consultancy_ Senior UI_UX designer.pdf

General Terms and Conditions: 

Please review UNICEF’s General Terms and Conditions for Consultants here for important information regarding contract obligations, including medical insurance, SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) vaccination, and income tax requirements.

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic background, and persons with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. To create a more inclusive workplace, UNICEF offers paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. Click here to learn more about flexible work arrangements, well-being, and benefits.

According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has committed to increase the number of employees with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we provide reasonable accommodation for work-related support requirements of candidates and employees with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen physical and digital accessibility. If you are an applicant with a disability who needs digital accessibility support in completing the online application, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Remarks: 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

In case of any questions, contact us at swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org