Senior Graphic Designer Associate - UNOPS - G7 - HRR020 - Beirut, Lebanon

Accountability (key results that will be achieved)

• Be accountable for checking all the visuals produced are truthful and comply with codes of UNHCR’s brand and guidelines.
• Use brand strategy to design content that drive donors’ acquisition and engagement. Create compelling layouts.
• Deliver visual communication materials for the IG (Digital) and LG fundraising team as requested by the supervisor on time with input from different stakeholders.
• Drive effective completion of all project deliverables on or before deadline.

Responsibility (process and functions undertaken to achieve results)

• Manage the design workflow of all digital campaigns and develop tools and processes to continuously improve efficiency and quality.
• Lead with the Senior Digital Campaigner Associate and the Assistant Engagement Campaigns Officer to perform A/B testing to determine which variations of design are most effective to create on-brand content.
• Proactively scout for resources needed for campaigns, and ensure availability of audio music library, stock photos, and licenses.
• Collaborate with staff on design concepts and visual communications strategies to create designs, concepts and simple layouts.
• Produce visual communication content for donation pages, social media and email content for use on desktop and mobile platforms with a focus on encouraging new current audiences to take action for refugee's cause.
• Produce concept screens for the purpose of illustration and/or business decision-making.
• In line with UNHCR's digital identity, determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, and select style and size of type based on campaign/project needs.
• Prepare illustrations or rough sketches of materials, including storyboards to assist in staff visualizing end of product during planning and development of projects and campaigns.
• Use Adobe Flash, IMovie and or other animation/video software to generate short digital animation clips for projects and campaigns.
• Support outsourcing processes to work with suppliers to produce and print the designed materials, ensuring coordination and supervision with video production and printing companies or other service providers.
• Use adobe illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and other design software to generate new images, composition of images and creative typography.
• Produce info-graphics and data visualization images to communicate complex information into easily understood formats.
• Work closely with Copywriter to ensure synergy between written and visual content on the website, blogs, social media and print content.
• Work closely with the web developer to finalize visual materials for digital content.
• Build a growing bank of applied knowledge in effective visual communication and design that is relevant to UNHCR's supporters and stakeholders.
• Keep abreast of current refugee issues, research topics, historic and current events. Develop creative designs that are forward-thinking and in-line with current media trends.
• Monitor, identify, report and advice UNHCR on current and leading thinking around visual communication and design to inform project work.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Authority (decisions made in executing responsibilities and to achieve results)

• Ensure consistency and proper reflection of brand sensibility within our designs across digital properties.
• Brainstorm and propose compelling visuals and concepts to engage public with the refugee's cause.
• Optimize for performance to iterate, innovate and test different creative concepts.