Graphic designer for the development of comic books for training on Protection Against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Gender Based Violence Consultant, Maputo, 37 days (work from home)

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Background

GBV Pocket guide.

In September 2015 the IASC Guidelines for Integrating Gender-based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings (GBV Guidelines) were launched. Over the course of 2016 and 2017, the GBV Guidelines Implementation Support Team trained over 2,500 humanitarian practitioners in 11 sectors and 18 countries on how to reduce gender-based violence-related risks in their programming. Across a diversity of contexts and sectors, training participants voiced their interest and need for concise, how-to resource on how to support a survivor of gender-based violence (GBV) when there is no GBV actor (including a referral pathway or GBV specialist/ focal point) in their area. Upon consultation with other practitioners and coordination mechanisms, it is apparent that this challenge resonates in a diversity of settings and across multiple types of actors. To fill this gap, a joint Working Group convened by the GBV Guidelines Reference Group and the GBV Area of Responsibility developed a resource package on how to support a survivor of GBV when there is no GBV referral pathway or GBV focal point (“Pocket Guide”), as a companion guide to the GBV Guidelines. Over the past 2 years, the GBV Pocket Guide has been developed in visual versions that are accessible for users with low- to no- literacy in three countries: South Sudan, Mali and Honduras.

The visual GBV pocket guide is meant to be used by formal and informal humanitarian actors across the entire response spectrum – particularly the most local level actors such as community-based women’s rights organizations (WROs), community health and nutrition workers and other frontline workers, specifically those with low levels of literacy or who are illiterate. These actors are often the first to respond to crisis within their own communities, but to date have not been well served by tools and resources that are typically designed for those operating within the formal humanitarian system.

PSEA

UNICEF and partners respond to emergencies around the world, with thousands of aid workers contributing to the delivery of vital programmes for children affected by conflict, natural disasters and other crises. Keeping children and adults safe from potential sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers requires action across UNICEF.

UNICEF co-chaired a process to develop a common UN set of standards and services for survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Victim Assistance Protocol, which outlines the core principles, standards, roles and responsibilities of UN entities and their partners to promptly refer and provide assistance to survivors of sexual exploitation and abuse. From 2018 to 2019, UNICEF served as the IASC Champion for PSEA. During that time, IASC members, including UNICEF, developed and endorsed the IASC Plan for Accelerating Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Response at Country Level.

Our priority is ensuring that children and adults are protected from sexual exploitation and abuse, and that victims are provided with the support and protection they need. To that end, one core element of UNICEF’s work on PSEA in Mozambique is raising awareness among affected populations, including informing them about how to identify and report incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA). Given the particular vulnerability of children to SEA, it is essential that this messaging is conveyed to them in an age-appropriate and accessible way, ensuring they understand how and where to seek help. UNICEF Mozambique is now working to develop effective approaches for communicating PSEA to children. These approaches will be delivered face-to-face and integrated into child protection, education, community engagement activities, food and non-food items distribution, and other sectors’ programming. 

 

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The designer will be required to work on two different products, one for the prevention of Gender Based Violence and one for PSEA.

PSEA

The graphic designer will adapt an existing PSEA-themed comic book for children to the Mozambican context, ensuring cultural relevance and sensitivity. This includes modifying visual elements, characters, and settings to reflect local environments, traditions, and lifestyles. The adaptation should maintain the original educational intent while making the content and format more relatable and engaging for Mozambican children. The final product will be tested with Mozambican children, and the designer may be required to make additional adjustments based on the feedback received from this testing phase.

GBV

As part of its Core Commitments for Children (CCC), UNICEF wants to ensure that “Workers and frontline staff in all sectors are trained and equipped with information on available GBV response services and referral procedures to support GBV survivors. For this reason, multiple trainings have been conducted for his staff and partners, revealing the need for a simplified version of the GBV Pocket Guide, to make if adapted for community workers, volunteers, and contexts where audience has a limited literacy level. A simplified tool is also crucial for all those contexts where the facilitation is not conducted in Portuguese but in a local language. The visual adaptation of the GBV Pocket guide becomes therefore instrumental for maximizing the outreach of capacity building in this area. The adaptation will draw inspiration from the existing translations, but will contextualize images, characters and situation to ensure that they resonate and are fully understood by users in Mozambique.

The visual GBV Pocket Guide will be submitted to partners for review and testing and finalized with inputs received during this testing phase.

 

Scope of Work:

Under the supervision of the PSEA specialist (for the PSEA deliverable) and the Gender Specialist (for the GBV deliverable), the Consultant will deliver the following tasks:

 

–             Get familiarized with documents of reference for the PSEA comic book and for the visual GBV Pocket guide (full pocket guide in Portuguese, visual pocket guides, lists of referral pathways,  Visual GBV Pocket Guide Learning by Design Package – Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action    etc).

PSEA

–             Adapt the PSEA themed comic book to the Mozambican context;

–             Share the draft for review by UNICEF;

–             Participate in the testing of the draft through consultation with children;

–             Integrate changes arising from feedback received during consultations with children;

–             Review to integrate any additional feedback and finalize the PSEA comic book;

GBV

–             Sketch characters and background for the visual version of the GBV pocket guide and submit them for initial review;

–             Proceed with the drafting of the visual pocket guide, integrating any feedback provided on the initial sketch;

–             Share the draft for review to UNICEF and relevant stakeholders (GBV AoR, implementing partners, etc);

–             Produce a test version for testing in the field;

–             Integrate comments from the field and finalize the product;

–             Share the final visual Pocket Guide with UNICEF.

The graphic designer will need to be available for potential meetings with partners and stakeholders in the preparation and review phase of the booklet.

 

Methodology and Technical Approach

 

The Consultant is expected to be based in Mozambique, preferably Maputo. The person will work from home and will attend occasional meetings with relevant staff in Maputo office, and with stakeholders during the review phase. The consultant will take part in the consultation and testing of the materials with children.  

 

The number of working days for the consultancy does not include the review days, namely the periods in which UNICEF and its stakeholders will review the products. 

 

Selection criteria

Candidates shall demonstrate relevant experience in development of creative products for children and audience with low literacy, particularly comics and illustration.

 

The candidates are requested to submit their candidature including hyperlinks and/or samples of their portfolio for recent years, including two samples of work: comic, story book or a similar product.

 

Work Assignment Overview

Deliverable 1 – PSEA comic book

Tasks/Milestone:           

Adapt original PSEA themed comic book to Mozambican context

Deliverables/Outputs:  

Adapted draft comic book

Timeline

5 days

Tasks/Milestone:           

Integrate changes arising from UNICEF review of first draft

Deliverables/Outputs:  

Revised first draft

Timeline

3 days

Tasks/Milestone:           

Consultation and testing with children

Deliverables/Outputs:  

Pretest the material and collect feedback from the beneficiaries (the children)

Timeline

5 days

Payment schedule

10%

 

Tasks/Milestone:

Integrate changes arising from feedback received during consultations with children             

Deliverables/Outputs:  

Revised comic book

Timeline

3 days  

Payment schedule

30%

 

Tasks/Milestone:

Final review to integrate any additional feedback            

Deliverables/Outputs:  

Final product comic book (including editable version)

Timeline

1 day

Payment schedule

10%

 

Deliverable 2 – GBV Visual Pocket guide

Tasks/Milestone:

Sketch characters and background         

Deliverables/Outputs:  

Preliminary draft

Timeline

5 days

Payment schedule

10%

 

Tasks/Milestone:           

Attend consultation/review workshops and meetings

Deliverables/Outputs:  

Participation to meetings

Timeline

2 days

Tasks/Milestone:

Prepare draft 0 of the GBV Pocket guide

Deliverables/Outputs:  

Draft 0

Timeline            

8 days

Tasks/Milestone:

Review of draft 0 and production of amended draft

Deliverables/Outputs:  

Reviewed draft

Timeline            

3 days

Payment schedule

20%

Tasks/Milestone:

Integration of last feedbacks and finalization of the GBV visual pocket guide

Deliverables/Outputs:  

Final draft

Timeline            

2 days

Payment schedule

20%

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Bachelor’s degree in social studies, design, artistic studies, other relevant area

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

The candidate should possess basic understanding of SBC, GBV, PSEA, and child protection.

The person shall have a demonstrated experience (preferably at least 2 years) in graphic design for comics, particularly producing materials for a children’s audience, including those with low literacy levels, and materials for awareness raising.

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For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check. 

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.