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Mission and objectives
UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.
UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide.
Context
UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.
The communications unit provides visibility and strategic communications support thematic units in the South Africa Multi-Country Office. In view of ensuring quality of materials used for awareness rising, advocacy and public dissemination, UN Women SAMCO has begun using various visual products to convey the enormous amount of work that is being done on women’s rights and issues. Visual products provide the opportunity to present information and data and tell stories in a straightforward way. They are being used on and disseminated through, for example, UN Women websites, social media, and advocacy reports. UN Women plans to maximize its communication and outreach through targeted, diverse digital visual products such as: internet banners, infographics/data visualization, social media posters, animated visuals, and gifs for web and social media. UN Women South Africa Multi-Country Office seeks to hire a graphic design intern to support in producing various visual communications products and with media monitoring.
Task description
Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Communication Analyst or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer will:
• Conceptualize and develop compelling graphics, designs, and layouts for various collateral as needed for internal and external communications purposes;
• Development of pre-identified infographics including draft concepts of each to inform full design; design/layout of data sheets, e-posters, and PowerPoint presentations;
• Development of creative and compelling visuals including flyers for use on social media and other graphics design products as needed;
• Support communications team on various communications related tasks including research, web management, campaigns, and event management;
• Support in preparing presentations, decks, pitches, toolkits, posters, publications, and other visuals;
• Assist the communications team in the curation and coordination of key events and communication opportunities such as campaigns and webinars.