Consultant - Graphic Designer Mercy Corps Northwest - Portland HQ

Description

Background:

Mercy Corps NW conducts regular small business training for entrepreneurs out of our Portland, SW Washington offices. The Portland office serves over 1,000 entrepreneurs annually. Small business education is an integral part of our economic development programming.

Purpose / Project Description:

In 2007, MCNW launched LIFE at Oregon’s only all-women prison, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. The 32-week accredited business education course is for incarcerated individuals who are within 18-24 months of release. The class empowers participants by providing life skills, re-entry planning, and a small business training curriculum that harnesses the potential of self-employment as a meaningful path to employment post-release. The curriculum of the course consists of:

The curriculum was originally designed within the Adobe suite to offer a print-ready book to be used in the classroom. However, to support the ongoing needs of the program, both curriculum manuals have been updated in Word and PDF. Today we are looking to revamp the curriculum to get it back into an editable and sustainable format for the future.

Consultant Objectives:

The consultant will review the curriculum and re-design both the Instructor Manual and Student Workbook within the Adobe suite in a manner that will make the curriculum readily accessible for updates and text tweaks as needed. The consultant will work closely with the Mercy Corps Northwest team and offer design solutions that meet the needs of the program.

Consultant Activities:

The Consultant will:

Consultant Deliverables:

The Consultant will:

Timeframe / Schedule:

The consultant shall complete the duties described from on or about June 1, 2023 to December 1, 2023, for Mercy Corps Northwest throughout the year on weekdays, evenings and weekends.

The Consultant will report to:

Executive Director and Curriculum Specialist

The Consultant will work closely with:

Women's Business Center Manager, Communications and Community Projects Director, and other operations and core MCNW staff.

Required Experience & Skills:

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives.

We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.

Equal Employment Opportunity
We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.

Safeguarding & Ethics
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our stakeholders and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects. Team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and MC's policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all in-country venues.