Individual Senior consultant Graphic Designer for the MIYCN Counselling Package Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Rwanda

Summary : Individual Senior consultant Graphic Designer for the MIYCN Counselling Package

Deadline : 30 Apr 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 32379577

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Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATION CHILDREN'S FUND
EBENEZER House 1370 Umuganda Boulevard Kacyiru Country code 250 Tel: 78816 2700 - Switchboard Facsimile: +250788162810
Rwanda
Email :kigali@unicef.org
URL :www.unicef.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Rwanda: Individual Senior consultant Graphic Designer for the MIYCN Counselling Package, 2 months, Kigali-Rwanda.

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Background and Justification

ÂThe UNICEF Rwanda Nutrition Programme is focusing on addressing malnutrition in children, pregnant and lactating women and adolescent girls, in a holistic manner, with special attention paid to reaching the most vulnerable. Specifically, the focus is on reducing stunting, improving the management of acute malnutrition, and decreasing micronutrient deficiencies by working closely with the Government and other partners. One of UNICEF'skey overarching strategies focuses on capacity development of service providers and related stakeholders, increasing the adoption of key nutrition practices and behaviors, changing social norms, and increasing the demand for and the uptake of services related to improving nutrition.

The full implementation of the 2019 work-plan requires support for updating and expanding the National Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) Counselling Package for both community health workers and facility-based service providers through a consultative process with the RBC/MOH, NECDP and other stakeholders. UNICEF Rwanda Country Office, therefore, is seeking to contract a suitably qualified individual graphic designer with experience in both the development of high quality illustrations and layout of updated elements of the National MIYCN Counselling Package, including counselling cards, training manuals and supervision guidelines. The projected Level of Effort (LOE) is not to exceed 30 days, over a period of two month.

Purpose

Accelerating interventions aimed at improving Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) at both the community and facility- levels is a key priority in UNICEF's effort to improve key nutrition practices and behaviors in Rwanda. To do so, caregivers need practical support, one-on-one counselling, and correct information. Community-based MIYCN counselling cards, training manuals and supervision guidelines play a significant role in building the capacity for participatory, social and behaviour change communication for personnel who are involved in the promotion of key nutrition practices and behaviors in support of programme sustainability.

The proposed updating and expansion of the MIYCN Counselling Package will help to increase the impact of the Package, which was originally launched in 2012, by repositioning the package, stimulating renewed interest and curiosity, capturing the attention of key stakeholders, service providers, and community health workers. The updated package will help to better communicate difficult nutrition concepts to the target audiences. The updated package will also help to ensure both the comprehension and credibility of the information or messages being conveyed, by modelling key behaviors through high quality visual images, and motivating individuals, families and communities to try new or improved behaviors and, to ultimately adopt the behavior or behaviors being promoted.

Objectives and tasks

Under supervision of the Chief of Nutrition, the Graphic Designer/illustrator will adapt and expand a number of existing graphic elements of the National MIYCN Counselling Package, including the production of new high-quality images and layouts for low literacy settings.

The specific responsibilities of the graphic designer/illustrator are to:

Review existing/sample materials to inform design and format decisions for graphics and materials.
Develop draft illustrations (line drawings or flat color) matching the existing quality of illustrations found in National MIYCN Counselling Package, as per the Nutrition Technical Working Groups (TWG) recommendations, for review by UNICEF and the TWG
Incorporate feedback from UNICEF and the TWG, and finalize draft illustrations (adding color and volume).
Layout the new illustrations as proposed by UNICEF and the TWG, using the existing National MIYCN Counselling Package graphic template to ensure consistency in the overall design (fonts, colors and balance of illustrations with white space).
Participate in the pre-testing of the updated and expanded materials with the end users of these materials (facility health workers, community health workers, mothers and other caregivers, to confirm that they are effective, appropriate, understandable, attractive, and culturally relevant. Participate in the analysis of the pre-test results to better understand any changes that are recommended.
Incorporate the feedback attained from pre-test process for illustrations, layout, key messages and other text (Use color, volume, and patterns to finalize high-quality nutrition SBCC graphic illustrations for the Counselling Cards.)
Incorporate any additional illustrations, and layout of cards in the updated training and supervision materials, under the direction of UNICEF and the TWG.
Provide high-resolution print ready files for production, and the source files (Photo-shop illustrations and layouts for the program archives), on an external hard drive once all the necessary comments and changes have been incorporated and signed-off by UNICEF.
Edit, layout and condense the text of messages in one page per card with related images.
Work relationships:

The consultancy involves working closely with National ECD program, the Rwanda Biomedical Centre, Nutrition Technical Working Group Âand the UNICEF Nutrition technical team

Deliverables

Deliverables

Timeline/Deadline

Schedule of payment

1. MIYCN counselling cards designed with corresponding images, pre-tested, and delivered on time, meeting requirements and quality standards. The new counselling cards will have following images:

Card 1: pre-conception and nutrition for adolescent with two images: i) a non-pregnant woman with a plate of various food for balanced diet, ii): Image of an adolescent in Rwandan school uniform with a plat of balanced meal

Card 2:What to do if not enough breastmilk with different images: lactating mother getting massage to stimulate milk production; mother resting, mother drinking water

Card 3:How to introduce complementary feeding with different images of different texture of food and different food types (mashed food, puree, types of oil, cereals, fruits etc.)

Card 4:Responsive feeding with different images showing the best way of feeding a child with encouragement, patience and not to force a child

Card 5: Animal sources food with images showing different local animal products, the existing images to be improved.

Card 6:Safe ways to handle food and maximise benefits of cereals: images reflecting food hygiene and germination and fermentation of cereals

Card 7: home fortification using MNPs: the image will be designed as the existing separate card of MNPs

Card 8:Feeding children with special circumstances: images will reflect a wet nurse (old women) and infant formula for non-breastfed child

Card 9: Feeding children with feeding difficulties: images will reflect thicken liquids fluids, things to feed and avoid when a child has difficulties to swallow or chewing

Card 10:Early Childhood development: images will reflect how to play with the baby at different age to stimulate his brain as well as ways to talk and smile to the baby. These images will be adapted from the existing ones.

Modified images for some existing counselling cards: adding a red cross as not recommended and a yes sign for recommended practices as well as removing/adding new items.

Month 1

End of Month 1

A ready to print counselling cards package with all images and corresponding text. The print-ready file should contain trim marks, registration marks and all detailed elements needed to facilitate the printers to produce quality counselling cards.

Month 2

End of Month 2

Desired competencies, technical background and experience

Education: Advanced university degree in graphic design, Art, or related field with proven experience in Adobe's Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator software.
Relevant work experience: a minimum of eight year's experience of progressively responsible professional work experience in the graphic design, illustration, and development of social and behaviour change materials, including several years of practical work experience designing, illustrating and pre-testing of SBCC materials for public health nutrition interventions-preferably in Rwanda.
Competencies: The individual must be artistic and creative with strong verbal, visual and written communication skills in English. He has to initiate and execute activities in a timely manner. The candidate should have a proven track record of high standards/accountability for work products, meeting deadlines, and deliver products of the highest calibre.
Languages needed: Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required, knowledge of any other UN language is an asset.
Evaluation Criteria

The Technical proposal is weighted at 75% and 25% for the Financial proposal.

Please note that the final remuneration will be negotiated by HR.

Payment Schedule

Payment is linked to agreed deliverables upon satisfactory completion and certification of deliverables by the supervisor.

General Conditions: Procedures & Logistics

The consultant will work on his or her own computer(s) and use own office resources and materials in the execution of this assignment. The consultant fees shall be inclusive of all office administrative costs
During the consultancy period the consultancy will cover his/her transport cost in Kigali and at the request of the supervisor, UNICEF shall provide the Consultant with transport for field visits. For Field Trip, the consultant will be reimbursed the living allowances on field pegged at not more than 75% of the applicable United Nations Daily Subsistence Allowance rate for any location and based on a submitted voucher/claim approved by the supervisor.
The candidate selected will be governed by and subject to UNICEF's General Terms and Conditions for individual contracts.
As per UNICEF procedure on consultants and individual contractors, payment is made against approved deliverables. No advance payment is allowed unless in exceptional circumstances against bank guarantee, subject to a maximum of 30 per cent of the total contract value in cases where advance purchases, for example for supplies or travel, may be necessary.
How to Apply

UNICEF is committed to gender equality in its mandate and its staff. Well qualified candidates, particularly females are strongly encouraged to apply.

Interested candidates should send their complete Personal History (P11) form, which can be downloaded form (http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc) or a CV/resume, as well as a cover letter explaining what makes them suitable for this consultancy.

Qualified and experienced candidates are requested to submit a letter of interest including a Technical Proposal outlining a road map for review and implementation timeline. In their letter of interest, candidates should highlight their previous work experience relevant to the assignment, the attributes that make them suitable, their proposed approach to the assignment.

Only Selected candidates will be contacted and requested to submit an All-inclusive Financial Proposal outlining the total costs for this consultancy with payment linked to the main deliverables outlined above.

Remarks:

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=521460

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