UX-UI Designer - UNRWA
- Posting Title: Consultant – UX-UI Designer, (Local)
- Department/Office: United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
- Duty Station: HQ Gaza
- Posting Period: 24 January 2022 - 06 February 2022
- Job Opening Number: 22-UNRWA - Information Management-173102-Consultant
- Staffing Exercise N/A
Result of Service
UNRWA is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from both women and men.
UNRWA encourages applications from qualified women. Only those applicants shortlisted for an interview will be contacted. UNRWA is a non-smoking environment.
Work Location
Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, or West Bank
Expected duration
● The duration of the consultancy is 6 to 11 months, extendable according to performance and availability of funds.
● Remuneration for this consultancy will depend on fund availability and qualifications, and relevant experience as follows:
o Cluster A: $1,300.
o Cluster B: $1,600.
● The incumbent can be in any UNRWA field of operations (Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, or West Bank).
Duties and Responsibilities
- • Work collaboratively with a passionate group of designers, developers, product owners, and testers to shape human-centered user experiences
- • Create user flows and wireframes to build user interface mockups and prototypes of mobile and web apps
- • Apply a human-centered design to understand our users’ needs, advocate for them, and ensure that the final product matches their needs by user-testing your ideas.
- • Provide the technical team with the necessary artifacts, assets, and templates
- • Provide guidelines to the developer on the implementation and changes of user interfaces, following project-specific and generic design and usability requirements
- • Participate in validating the solution performing functional, design, usability, and cross-device tests
- • Conduct User Research, and Usability testing, including knowledge on User Interface, Material Design
- • Prepare the necessary project-related technical documentation.
- • Apply industry standards and best practices in writing and performing codes, testing, and complying with the produced artefacts’ security standards and policies.
- • Perform other related duties as required.
Qualifications/special skills
Academic Qualifications:
● A university degree from an accredited educational institution in information technology, information management, computer science, Graphic Design, UX/UI, Visual communication, or other related disciplines;
Experience:
● Experience in graphic design or UX/UI field to design mobile or web applications as per the following:
o Cluster A: A minimum of 1.5 years of experience.
o Cluster B: A minimum of 5 years of experience.
The resource MUST have the following skills and experience:
• Experience in the design of web applications and public sites
• Experience in mobile and responsive application design
• Experience in researching and user testing
• Experience in producing wireframes and technical documentation.
• Experience using current UX/UI design tools such as Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch or Zeplin
• Experience in customer identity design, such as logos, look & feel, and marketing
• Experience in search engine optimization techniques
• Must have a working knowledge of applications development and technical architecture
• Must be technologically savvy, demonstrating the ability to easily adapt to new and unfamiliar technologies, software, and systems
The resource SHOULD have the following skills and experience:
• Minimum 3 years of experience working in the graphic design or UX/UI field
• Agile or SCRUM Project participation experience
• Good knowledge and sound understanding of IT fundamentals and technologies pertinent to creating business solutions (software development and testing, architecture, applications, databases, integration, infrastructure, and networks)
DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE
• Experience with Atlassian tools like Jira and Confluence
• Experience with tools like Sencha, Photoshop, or other tools in the Adobe suite
DESIRABLE CERTIFICATES
• Relevant industry certifications, including PRINCE2 & ITIL.
Competency:
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills.
- • A high degree of initiative, dependability , and ability to work with little supervision.
- • High level of personal integrity, the ability to professionally handle confidential matters, and show an appropriate level of judgment and maturity.
- • Good attention to detail
- • Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- • Ability to deliver quality results
- • Creativity/ ability to find innovative solutions
Language:
● Fluent in spoken and written English.
● Knowledge of another UN language is an advantage