Exciting Home-Based Opportunity Open to all applicants: Join UNDP as a Visual Communications and Graphic Design Analyst
Closing Date: 22 October 2025
Exciting Home-Based Opportunity Open to all applicants: Join UNDP as a Visual Communications and Graphic Design Analyst
Background
UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy.
In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan.
Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices, advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government, and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP’s Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response.
BPPS’s Hubs on Nature, Climate, Energy and Waste, with the support of the Vertical Fund Programme Support, Oversight and Compliance Unit, works with governments, civil society, and private sector partners to integrate nature, climate, energy and waste related concerns into national and sector planning and inclusive growth policies, support country obligations under Multilateral Environmental Agreements, and oversee the implementation of the UN’s largest portfolio of in-country programming nature, climate change, energy and waste.
The UNDP Climate Hub is the arrowhead of UNDP’s commitment to the “Climate Promise” that aims to support programming countries designing and implementing pledges under the Paris Agreement, including ambitious National Determined Contributions, with climate change mitigation and adaptation interventions fully embedded in the national development planning and budgetary processes.
The UNDP Climate Hub is responsible for:
- Thought leadership on Climate and to be the custodian of UNDP policy positions on Climate;
- Strategy and vision formulation;
- Pipeline development in coordination with the other hubs and the Vertical Fund Programme Support, Oversight and Compliance Unit;
- Provision of integrated policy and programme support to Country Offices;
- Global engagement, advocacy in collaboration with BERA;
- Integration across thematic areas;
- Strategic Partnerships development and resource mobilization;
- Lead and Support global flagship initiatives and partnerships on Climate;
- Serve as focal point with relevant UN coordination mechanisms and Conventions (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change);
- Cross-organization knowledge and learning; and
- Innovation.
UNDP is recruiting a Home-Based Visual Communications and Graphic Design Analyst to support the communications team of UNDP Climate Hub with overall visual communications, branding and design needs.
Scope of Work
Under the overall supervision of the UNDP Climate Promise HQ Communications Specialist, the incumbent will be responsible for creating visual assets and helping enhance the information flow and visibility of UNDP Climate Promise work on digital communications and social media platforms. The incumbent will support the integrated UNDP Climate Hub communications team and its various pillars by developing engaging and creative visual assets that can help communicate UNDP’s work and impact on climate to a variety of target audiences, including climate professionals, everyday citizens, governments and donors.
Duties and responsibilities:
- The scope of the activities listed below may vary, depending on the length of the assignment and how the initiative progresses.
Content production
- Act as focal point for all things visual communications within UNDP Climate Hub, ensuring communications team is adhering to visual communications guidelines in their work;
- Guide and support in conceptualizing and developing visual and branding identity for commonucations products of UNDP Climate Hub and its Climate Promise;
- Support advocacy campaigns created by the team with ideas and visual content production;
- Design, layout and proofread Climate Promise reports and other publications, for digital and print purposes;
- Develop guidelines and provide supervision as required to external graphic designers on report and publication designs;
- Develop social media assets (such as animated graphics and GIFs) to support social media packages;
- Support in creating presentations, infographics and other communication materials as needed to showcase the Climate Promise portfolio;
- Assist in shooting and editing short in-house social media friendly videos for digital use where needed;
- Contribute to improvement of internal document management systems and/or knowledge repositories, as required;
- The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Institutional Arrangement
The Visual Communications and Graphic Design Analyst will report directly to the Climate Hub Communications Lead. S/he will be part of the larger Climate Strategies and Policy team and UNDP Climate Hub communications teams and work in a coordinated manner with the rest of UNDP’s Climate communication team.
Minimum Qualifications of the Successful IPSA
Min. Academic Education
- Advanced university degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, International Relations, Business Management, Environmental Sciences, International Development or related discipline is required, or
- A first-level university degree (a bachelor’s degree) in the afore-mentioned areas with additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s degree.
Min. years of relevant Work experience
- Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience at the national or international level in generating communications, communication strategies, media operations, and advocacy material via various media (i.e. print, video, websites)
Required skills and competencies
- At least 2 years of proficiency and experience) in graphic design, video editing and relevant softwares, such as: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effect, Final Cut Pro and the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite.
- Demonstrated experience of graphic production from conceptualization to published/printed product with knowledge of printing processes.
- Demonstrated experience of social media friendly video production from conceptualization to publication on digital channels.
Required Language(s)
- Fluency in English is required.
- Professional knowledge of any other UN Langauge is highly desirable
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