Graphic Designer

A. About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

ADPC is an autonomous international organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with governments, development partners, international organizations, NGOs, civil society, private sector, media, and other key stakeholders.

Established in 1986 as a technical capacity-building center, ADPC has grown and diversified its expertise across social and physical sciences to support sustainable solutions for risk reduction across a broad range of specialist areas. With over 100 staff from 19 different nationalities and a wide range of professional expertise from atmospheric scientists to social scientists with experiences from all levels of engagement typically required for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Resilience (CR) in an effective manner. ADPC is a competent regional resource center and has seven thematic departments: ADPC Academy, Risk Governance, Climate Resilience, Urban Resilience, Health Risk Management, Preparedness for Response and Recovery, Geospatial Information. These are supported by Finance, Human Resources and Administration, and Strategic Planning departments. In addition to the departments, ADPC works on three cross-cutting themes: Gender and Diversity, Poverty and Livelihoods, and Regional and Transboundary Cooperation through permanent working committees.

ADPC Strategy 2020 guides the organization in providing comprehensive risk reduction support to countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific. ADPC recognizes the importance of examining the linkages between disaster risk management, poverty reduction, gender equality, sustainability, rights-based approaches, climate change and regional cooperation.

For details please refer to ADPC website at http://www.adpc.net/

B. Background

Disasters take a huge toll on the development agenda of SAR countries. Between 2000 and 2017, disasters in South Asia incurred estimated damages of US$ 149.27 billion. Public expenditure is under stress by the repeated need to reallocate capital budgets away from long term development planning and towards reconstruction activities in post-disaster environments. For example, since 2005, Pakistan has suffered losses on the order of US$ 16 billion due to natural disasters. In Bangladesh, 2007 Cyclone Sidr resulted in damages and losses of US$1.7 billion, or 2.6 per cent of GDP.

To increase resilience and achieve climate commitments, there is a need for a transformational shift towards policies and institutions that enable climate resilient investments. Investing in more resilient infrastructure is both profitable and urgent as disruptions are extremely costly for governments, households, private sector and large ongoing investments in infrastructure assets will have long-lasting repercussions as poor maintenance, and natural disasters result in a vulnerable stock.

With the financial support from the World Bank Group, ADPC has been implementing a five-year project, titled “Climate Adaptation and Resilience Project for South Asia” (CARE). The project aims to create an enabling environment for climate resilience policies and investments across South Asia. This objective will be achieved through enhanced regional cooperation and knowledge exchange for climate resilience and adaptation and mainstreaming of resilience and adaptation in national policies, plans and investments.

C. Statement of Intent

In order to complete the documentation tasks on CARE for South Asia, ADPC requires hiring a graphic designer to assist the Communication and Knowledge Management team on a number of documents, webpage, and articles using the ADPC in general and the CARE for South Asia Project Branding Style Guide in particular**.**

The position will be home-based.

Note:

It is not the intent of this Terms of Reference to cover every aspect of the position requirements, rather highlight the most important areas of personal and joint responsibilities.

D. Duties and Responsibilities

The Graphic Designer shall provide the following inputs:

• Design and layout communication materials (e.g., reports, case studies, handbooks, brochures, posters, and infographics) for printing and electronic distribution based on ADPC and CARE’s branding guidelines;
• Develop graphic elements for the SAR-Climate Knowledge Hub and social media content ;
• Maintain co-branding while designing a product that is developed in collaboration with partners;
• Develop and maintain CARE for South Asia photo library;
• Custom photo editing;
• Video editing; and
• Any other task assigned by the supervisor.

E. Deliverables

Approximately 250 pages of designing and other allied support would be required.

E. Qualifications

Education

• A Bachelor’s Degree in graphic design or any other related qualifications including art and design.
• Sufficient training and proficiency in graphic designing software like Adobe Design Premium, In-Design, CorelDraw, or similar

Work Experience

• At least 5 years of experience in designing layouts, graphic designing, transforming text-based communications materials into visual graphic design materials such as infographic, newsletter, brochures, backdrop etc.
• Experience in developing designs for communication materials based on project requirements
• Assist with the best and most relevant visual design style and materials suitable for the target audience of the project

Functional Competencies:

• Excellent graphic design and creative skills
• Proficiency in design software
• Experience in the development of statistics, charts, and social networking
• Ability to respect timeframes and meet deadlines

Language Proficiency

• Fluency in English in reading, writing and speaking

F. Reporting Relationships

The Graphic Designer will report to the Project Director, CARE for South Asia. The consultant will work in close coordination with the Project Implementation Unit and the Communication and Knowledge Management team at ADPC.

G. Contract Duration

The contract duration will be for 1 year with a possibility of extension based on the requirements of the project and the performance of the consultant

H. Selection Method

The consultant will be selected in accordance with ADPC’s recruitment process and in compliance with the World Bank Procurement Regulations.

How to apply

Interested Candidates can submit the completed ADPC application form, (downloadable from www.adpc.net), resume, copy of degrees/certificate(s) together with a cover letter, to: [email protected]. to the attention of Dr. Saswata Sanyal, Project Manager.

Female candidates are especially encouraged to apply.

ADPC encourages diversity in its workplace and support an inclusive work environment.