Internship – Visual Design Contributors (Polio Programme), Islamabad, Pakistan (2 Months)

UNICEF, guided by the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster, works along with companions in 190 nations and territories to advertise and advocate for the safety of the rights of each youngster.

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For each youngster, Polio drops!

To fulfill the calls for of this evolving communications panorama, the programme seeks to interact interns as Visible Design Contributors to help the event of impactful, culturally related, and accessible visible content material. The intern modality supplies a novel alternative to usher in recent, artistic vitality whereas providing early-career professionals a hands-on studying expertise in a real-time well being emergency response setting. These contributors is not going to solely strengthen the capability of the communications workforce however may also learn the way design intersects with public well being, social behaviour change, and humanitarian coordination in one of many world’s most advanced emergency well being programmes.

How are you going to make a distinction? 

The Pakistan Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) is a multi-agency public well being initiative coordinated by the Nationwide Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC), beneath the Authorities of Pakistan. Because the programme continues to handle the circulation of polio throughout the nation, the NEOC performs a central position in coordinating provincial and nationwide campaigns, making certain alignment throughout technical, operational, and communication methods.

Beneath the management of the Inventive Lead, the communications workforce produces a big selection of supplies to tell and have interaction the general public, help frontline employees, and elevate the voices of communities. The Visible Design Contributors will change into part of this high-functioning workforce, instantly supporting nationwide campaigns by creating design merchandise for print, digital, and group outreach. Their work will contribute to well being promotion, social mobilization, and danger communication efforts, all throughout the framework of an L3-designated public well being emergency.

The Intern can be chargeable for the next:

Intern for Visible Design Contributors can be immersed within the communications workforce and provided a chance to develop their skilled expertise whereas contributing meaningfully to the programme’s outreach. Their obligations will present publicity to real-world workflows, artistic suggestions processes, and multi-stakeholder coordination, notably within the context of emergency response communications. Beneath the supervision of the Graphic Design Lead and in collaboration with the digital and outreach groups, the interns will:

• Help the creation of a broad vary of design outputs, together with digital and print supplies corresponding to posters, social media visuals, occasion backdrops, infographics, and public consciousness merchandise.
• Take part within the adaptation of national-level designs into culturally delicate, domestically related codecs to help outreach in numerous provinces and districts.
• Achieve expertise in growing visible storytelling merchandise for public well being campaigns, together with illustrations, animations, branded gadgets, and promotional collateral.
• Help in making ready print-ready belongings and sustaining organized design programs and templates.
• Be part of brainstorming and planning periods the place they’ll contribute recent views and study from skilled communication professionals.
• Obtain suggestions and training on their designs to strengthen their visible communication and undertaking administration expertise.
• Learn the way visible design can help behavioural change targets, foster belief in public establishments, and assist drive progress in advanced humanitarian settings.

By contributing to this work, the interns will acquire sensible expertise in emergency communications and construct a design portfolio rooted in actual affect and public service.

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…

Minimal necessities:

Schooling:

• Enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or Ph.D. diploma programme or have graduated throughout the previous two years from one of many following fields: Communication, Advantageous Arts (design), Visible Arts and design.
• Candidates have to be at the least 18 years outdated.
• Have glorious tutorial efficiency as demonstrated by latest college or establishment data.
• Will need to have proof of medical insurance coverage protecting their time on the obligation station.
• Have NO quick family (e.g. father, mom, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF workplace; and haven’t any different family within the line of authority that the intern will report back to; and are usually not disqualified beneath the UNICEF Youngster Safeguarding Personnel Requirements (DHR/STANDARDS/2019/001), or as amended.

Language Necessities:

• Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

• Creating nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
• data of Urdu language is fascinating.

If you’re a dedicated, artistic skilled and are captivated with youngsters’s rights and making a long-lasting distinction on youngsters’s lives, one of many world main entities on youngsters’s rights wish to hear from you.

For each Youngster, you reveal…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, Sustainability (CRITAS), and core competencies in Communication, Working with Individuals and Drive for Outcomes. 

UNICEF can be happy with a various workforce who’re profoundly dedicated to supporting the total realization of youngsters’s rights, and in uplifting a rights-based method in all that we do.

The UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness

(3) Drive to realize outcomes for affect

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

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UNICEF promotes and advocates for the safety of the rights of each youngster, in all places, in the whole lot it does and is remitted to help the belief of the rights of each youngster, together with these most deprived, and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or another standing.

We provide a wide range of benefits to our workers, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters.

All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background check, and chosen candidates with disabilities could also be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their incapacity confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station is required for IP positions and can be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Do you have to be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice can be canceled.

Remarks:  

Three (03) interns required to hitch the Polio Programme Part primarily based in UNICEF Islamabad.

Length of the internship is 2 months

UNICEF’s energetic dedication in the direction of variety and inclusion is essential to ship one of the best outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate feminine candidates are inspired to apply.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station, which can be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff which can be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or mandatory inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.