Hardship Level (not applicable for home-based)A (least hardship)
Family Type (not applicable for home-based)
Family
Staff Member / Affiliate TypeUNOPS LICA5
Target Start Date2023-11-01
Job Posting End DateOctober 13, 2023
Terms of Reference1. General Background
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The UN Refugee Agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect and assist refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. UNHCR has helped millions of people to restart their lives. They include asylum seekers, refugees, returnees, stateless people and internally displaced persons. Its humanitarian interventions are in the areas of protection, distribution of core relief items, shelter, health and education have been crucial, healing broken pasts and building brighter futures.
The UNHCR Office in China was established in 1979. It is expanding the scope of partnership with China in order to access its potential technological innovations, material resources and supply chain capability for the benefit of people forced to flee and support of UNHCRโs work globally by outreaching and engaging with the Government and private sector, including manufacturing companies.
Recently, UNHCR China has been actively and increasingly engaging Chinese manufacturing companies and service industries to promote their participation in UNHCR procurement process for humanitarian supply items and services and to identify, learn and assess the types and quality of humanitarian items they produce or able to create innovatively, which can be useful for UNHCR operations or benefit the people that UNHCR served. However, there is an information gap. UNHCR country operations globally are not fully aware about the items/products manufactured or services that can be provided by Chinese companies and manufacturers. At the same time, we have limited understanding of goods and services that are already available or could be made available in the market. Therefore, for UNHCR to fully avail itself to Chinaโs potential technological innovations, material resources and supply chain capability, it is important to address these gaps. One of the means to address it is by creating and publishing an electronic catalogue (eCatalogue) of humanitarian goods manufactured or to be manufactured in China as well as services provided or can be provided by Chinese companies.
2. Duties and responsibilities
Under the overall supervision of the Representative of UNHCR Beijing, China and in close coordination with the relevant colleagues in Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, the incumbent will be responsible to design electronic/digital platform for a catalogue of humanitarian items manufactured/produced or services offered by Chinese companies in China, which will be launched and rolled out to inform relevant UNHCR colleagues assigned in the various Regional Bureaus, Country Operations and Divisions at Headquarters. This will include the following tasks:
โข Mapping, identifying and compiling of data on humanitarian supply items and climate action related items already produced by Chinese manufacturers as well as services offered or provided by Chinese companies, individuals or entities.
โข Mapping, identifying and compiling of data on Chinese manufacturers, which have the capacity to produce humanitarian supply items and are willing to collaborate with UNHCR on research and development of new products or are willing to be engage with humanitarian services;
โข Mapping and reviewing the existing humanitarian catalogues (particulalry those published by UNHCR) to assess its contents and analyse the extent of items and services listed that are manufaured or provided by Chinese companies and recommend improvements in the design that will be incorporated in the eCatalogue.
โข Designing the platform of eCatalogue. The design will consider different types and categories of items to be easily searchable and filtered.
โข Uploading and updating the information/data of items to the platform.
โข Developing a communication strategy for publicising the catalogue within UNHCR and to relevant organizational audiences.
3. Competencies
โข Knowledge of graphic design
โข Ability to analyze the problems and challenges that you face in your projects, and come up with solutions that are creative, practical, and effective.
โข Technological Awareness
โข Planning and Organizing
4. Essential Minimum Required Educational Qualifications or Professional Experience
โข Education:
o Bachelorโs Degree or Holder of a Certificate in graphic design, multi-media design, visual communication or any related field.
โข Experience:
o Practical experience in catalog design, gained through internships, freelance work, or entry-level positions. Experience in working with United Nations agencies or humanitarian organizations is an advantage.
โข Knowledge and Skills:
o Ability to communicate ideas through their designs.
o Ability to communicate and collaborate with UNHCR colleagues and other platform users.
o Ability to think creatively and come up with unique design concepts can set a catalog designer apart.
o Knowledge in the use of graphic design programme formats as well as in page lay out and typography.
5. Language & Communication:
โข Very good knowledge of written and spoken English and Chinese languages.
Standard Job Description
Required Languages English
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Desired Languages
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Additional Qualifications
Skills
EducationBachelor of Arts (BA): Digital Communications and Media/Multimedia (Required), Bachelor of Arts (BA): Graphic Design (Required), Bachelor of Arts (BA): Visual Communication (Required)
Certifications
Work Experience
Other informationThis position doesn't require a functional clearance