Organization Mission

Youth Co:Lab positions young people front and center in order to solve the region’s most pressing challenges. Co-created in 2017 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Citi Foundation, Youth Co:Lab aims to establish a common agenda for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to empower and invest in youth so that they can accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through leadership, social innovation and entrepreneurship.

Context

The Youth Empowerment in Climate Action Platform (YECAP) is a regional youth-led platform in Asia and the Pacific. YECAP works to empower young people to meaningfully engage in climate governance, climate justice, green jobs and entrepreneurship, and inclusive policy processes across the region.

The YECAP website serves as a key digital platform to showcase youth-led initiatives, regional programmes, publications, impact stories, and partnerships to diverse audiences. As YECAP continues to grow, the website needs to evolve to better reflect its expanding portfolio, improve user experience, and enable the internal team to manage content more efficiently and sustainably.

Key Responsibilities

This assignment is for 8 weeks.

UNDP is seeking a professional website designer with strong UX/UI design and sitemap optimization experience to support the revamp of the YEP-AP website. The Online Volunteer will conduct a comprehensive quality check of the existing website and help restructure its architecture to improve usability, visual clarity, accessibility, and SEO performance.

A key challenge to be addressed is the Resources section, which was previously built using custom backend code to meet specific needs. The assignment will focus on simplifying this structure, removing unnecessary complexity, and proposing a more user-friendly and scalable solution. The website is built on Wix, and the selected Online Volunteer will be made a temporary editor to implement agreed changes.

The Online Volunteer will provide support by:
1. Conducting a full review and quality check of the existing website structure, pages, and navigation
2. Proposing and implementing an improved sitemap and information architecture to enhance clarity, accessibility, and user flow
3. Redesigning or restructuring the Resources/Publications section to:
3.1 Reduce or replace custom backend code where feasible within Wix
3.2 Enable convenient content updates by the internal team
3.3 Link and feature newly added publications under the Resources section automatically across relevant thematic pages by keyword
4. Enhancing overall UX/UI, including layout, consistency, readability, and visual hierarchy
5. Supporting basic SEO improvements through better structure, page organization, and visibility of content
6. Ensuring the final website is simple, scalable, and easy to manage for non-technical users

Required Skills and Experience

1. Proven experience in website design, UX/UI, and sitemap optimization
2. Strong experience with Wix CMS
3. Ability to simplify complex website structures into user-friendly solutions
4. Understanding of SEO best practices for content-heavy websites
5. Experience working with mission-driven, nonprofit, or development organizations is an asset