UNICEF internship design intern UX UI 4-months remote
Overview
Support design efforts in UX/UI projects for UNICEF’s Office of Innovation.
You have:
- Be enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or Ph.D. degree programme in interaction design, human-computer interaction, information design and information architecture or other relevant field or have graduated within the past two years.
- Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
- Be proficient in at least one of UNICEF’s working languages: English, French or Spanish. Fluency in the working language of the office you are applying to is required.
- Have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records.
- Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office; and have no other relatives in the line of authority that the intern will report to.
- A minimum of 6 months of relevant professional experience in UX/UI product design experience.
- Strong information design experience with a solid foundation in UX design research and heuristics.
- Strong understanding of design systems and front-end architecture.
- Experience in creating interactive prototypes in tools like Sketch, Zeplin, Invision, etc.
- Preferred knowledge of capabilities and limitations of Web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
The Office of Innovation specifically looks to form partnerships around frontier technologies (like drones and UAVs, blockchain, 21st century skills, urban technologies, new banking tools, wearables and sensors, or 3D-Printing) that exist at the intersection of $100 billion business markets and 1 billion person needs – and to identify how they can grow and scale profitably and inclusively.
As part of this role, the Design Intern will support various efforts within the Office of Innovation, including projects related, but not limited to our data science, blockchain, XR and drones work. In this role, the Intern will work with a variety of teams from the concept stage to delivering the final design package. Our team takes large ideas and makes them a reality; being able to communicate complex and abstract ideas using visual, verbal and written language is crucial. As the Office of Innovation works with UNICEF offices around the world and in a variety of scenarios, we are seeking someone who has a portfolio of strong, accessible design work for web and mobile. It is important that the Specialist have knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of web and mobile technologies and ideally some experience that extends beyond screen based designs.
How can you make a difference?
We seek a strong self-motivated User Experience and Interface designer who can maintain strong design sensibilities even under tight time constraints, who can work with a diverse interdisciplinary team to create a plan of action to best communicate ideas visually and who can maintain clarity in their work while juggling and prioritizing several projects at once. This position will support UX/UI Specialist and will work on a series of projects that are on-going.
Due to the diversity of the role, the team is looking for a hybrid designer, who can ideally work across various devices and platforms. The candidate should exemplify expertise in user experience and interaction design, user research and consultation for web-based designs, apps, and data information systems, information architecture and systems mapping design.
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Work closely with our UX/UI Specialist and play a supportive role between the Design Team and the Blockchain/ Giga Teams
- Create and validate mockups and wireframes for websites, software, and dashboards for different projects, as necessary while ensuring that branding and technical guidelines are upheld across the various mediums.
- Produce user requirements, personas, storyboards, journey maps, scenarios, flow charts etc. to give shape to any preliminary idea.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
- Be enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or Ph.D. degree programme in interaction design, human-computer interaction, information design and information architecture or other relevant field or have graduated within the past two years.
- Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
- Be proficient in at least one of UNICEF’s working languages: English, French or Spanish. Fluency in the working language of the office you are applying to is required.
- Have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records.
- Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office; and have no other relatives in the line of authority that the intern will report to.
- A minimum of 6 months of relevant professional experience in UX/UI product design experience
- Strong information design experience with a solid foundation in UX design research and heuristics
- Strong understanding of design systems and front-end architecture
- Experience in creating interactive prototypes in tools like Sketch, Zeplin, Invision, etc.
- Preferred knowledge of capabilities and limitations of Web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
