Consultant - Designer

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 191-member National Societies (NSs). The overall aim of IFRC is “to inspire, encourage, facilitate, and promote at all times all forms of humanitarian activities by NSs with a view to preventing and alleviating human suffering and thereby contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human dignity and peace in the world.” IFRC works to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people before, during and after disasters, health emergencies and other crises.

IFRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Movement), together with its member National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The work of IFRC is guided by the following fundamental principles: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality.

IFRC is led by its Secretary General, and has its Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The Headquarters are organized into three main Divisions: (i) National Society Development and Operations Coordination; (ii) Global Relations, Humanitarian Diplomacy and Digitalization; and (iii) Management Policy, Strategy and Corporate Services.

IFRC has five regional offices in Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and the Americas. IFRC also has country cluster delegations and country delegations throughout the world. Together, the Geneva Headquarters and the field structure (regional, cluster and country) comprise the IFRC Secretariat.

IFRC has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment and other forms of harassment, abuse of authority, discrimination, and lack of integrity (including but not limited to financial misconduct). IFRC also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles.

The Global Strategic Planning and Reporting Centre is part of the Strategic Planning Department, which is part of the Office of the Secretary General and aims to bring the IFRC planning process to the next level, with a greater focus on membership-wide planning, monitoring and reporting, high-level objectives and contextual analysis. It also supports the IFRC leadership to develop and foster new proposals and initiatives to promote the IFRC network.

The Strategic Planning Department oversees a new country-level planning process called ‘Unified Planning’, bringing together ongoing emergency operations and longer-term work, and based on a Federation-wide planning approach. Federation-wide country plans are elaborated at country level in the four IFRC official languages, and with formats suiting the needs of the relevant National Society. Internal Federation-wide reporting on the country plans will follow IFRC standard reporting timeframes, i.e. a mid-year report (January to June) and an annual report (January to December). These plans and reports will be accessible to the IFRC network only. For donors and the general public, more standard and coherent versions of the plans and reports will be produced centrally and should contain the needed information to attract funding at country-level. In this connection, the Global Strategic Planning and Reporting Centre (also referred to as the Global Reporting Centre) was established in late 2023 to produce the public versions of the Federation-wide country plans and standard narrative reports against the plans.

Job Purpose

The Consultant Designer will be responsible for the professional final layout of external versions of plans and reports produced by the Global Reporting Centre. The layout follows the IFRC corporate visual identity guidelines and ensures visually appealing products. The layout is coherent in structure across the plans and reports for ease of use, and ensures key information is featured prominently.

The Consultant Designer will report to the Lead of the Global Reporting Centre, and will coordinate closely and on a daily or regular basis with the centre’s Design Officer.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Liaise with and take instruction from the Global Reporting Centre’s Design Officer in determining requirements and milestones for the layout of plans and reports. When required, provide progress updates to the Global Reporting Centre’s Lead.
• Design plans and reports, and generate visually appealing solutions to better convey the content of plans and reports, in close coordination and consultation with the Global Reporting Centre’s Design Officer. It is anticipated that the consultant will produce and submit between 1 and 3 plans or reports per day (for each of the 20 days of the initial consultancy), to the Global Reporting Centre’s Design Officer.
• Adjust layout and style of plans and reports to meet the standards set by the IFRC, in close coordination and consultation with the Global Reporting Centre’s Design Officer.
• Undertake any other related design work for the Global Reporting Centre.

Education

Degree in graphic design or art school, with a specialization in design and branding

Experience

Minimum 3 years of working experience in graphic design and layout

Knowledge, Skills and Languages

• Experience in other fields related to design (production, photo, web, video)
• Experience of working in the non-profit, humanitarian or development sectors
• Demonstrated experience in report design
• Advanced technical competence in layout software
• Advanced skills in computer software (Windows, word processing, powerpoint, spreadsheets)
• Demonstrated focus on quality and standards
• Able to work independently and as part of the team
• Able to produce a high level of creative design. Candidate to provide two work samples.
• Fluent spoken and written English

Modalities for the consultan cy

• The consultant will report to the IFRC Lead, Global Reporting Centre based in New Delhi, with a technical management line to the Global Reporting Centre’s Design Officer
• The time period foreseen is from 8 July to 16 August, with potential extension
• The initial number of working days will be 20 days during the overall contract period mentioned above
• The consultancy will be carried out on a remote basis entirely (through digital communications means) or through a mix of presence in the IFRC office in New Delhi and remotely
• Payment will be made monthly as per number of days used or upon receipt of intermediary invoices by the consultant, following completion of agreed deliverables

Applications should be sent to the below contact persons and contain:

• A short motivation letter justifying suitability of skills, information on level of availability (typical average number of days per month, blocked periods, other constraints), and indicating the daily consultancy fee range (in Indian Rupees)
• A Curriculum Vitae with specific references if relevant to previous IFRC network/Red Cross Red Crescent experience (employment and/or consultancies)

Competencies, Values and Comments

* Core competencies: Communications, Collaboration & Teamwork, Judgement &

Decision, National Society & Customer Relations, Creativity & Innovation, Building

Trust.

* Values: Respect for Diversity, Integrity, Professionalism, Accountability