Communications Analyst (Visual & Graphic Design)

Remote Communications Analyst (Visual and Graphic Design) focusing on visual communications for UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States, with a master’s degree and at least two years of professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for visual communications across the UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States, its country offices, and headquarters.
• Ensure brand consistency by guiding communications teams to follow established visual guidelines.
• Advise Arab region country offices and headquarters on global branding assets and products.
• Lead creation of assets for campaigns, international days, and advocacy efforts, adapting designs for print and digital formats.
• Support design and layout work for studies, manuals, toolkits, policy briefs, booklets, newsletters, reports, leaflets, bulletins, flyers and infographics in line with corporate branding.
• Create new and refresh existing social media banners, cards, and content to reflect branding guidelines.
• Contribute to the conceptualization and development of visual identity and branding for UN Women communications products.
• Conceptualize and produce engaging, user-centered social media materials to boost visibility of publications and events.
• Contribute to innovative design layouts and high-quality visuals for publications, factsheets, policy briefs, and other regional office materials.
• Design presentations, infographics, brochures, posters, and reports, along with other communication assets as needed.
• Design and layout UN Women Regional Office reports and other publications for digital and print delivery.
• Assist with shooting and editing short in-house videos for social media use as required.
• Collaborate with the WPS Unit, Regional Communications Team, and other units to ensure consistent messaging and a unified visual identity across materials from the WPS/HA team and the Regional Office.
• Adapt global visual assets for multicultural contexts and maintain language consistency across materials.
• Ensure brand compliance and production quality when working with external designers or vendors, providing guidance as needed.
• Support improvements to internal document management systems and knowledge repositories as required.
• Perform other duties within the functional profile as needed for the efficient operation of the Regional Office and the Organization.

Requirements

• A master’s degree (or equivalent) in graphic design, communications, public relations, journalism, or a related field is required.
• Alternatively, a first-level university degree plus two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the master’s degree.
• Minimum two years of professional experience in graphic design, communications, media operations, or advocacy materials across multiple media (print, video, websites) at national or international level.
• Experience producing social media friendly videos from concept to publication on digital channels.
• Experience creating media-facing visual assets and press or event visibility materials.
• Proficiency in graphic design and video editing using tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, Canva, and the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience taking a concept through production to a published or printed product, with knowledge of printing processes.
• Experience with international organizations or the UN system and familiarity with UN branding guidelines is desirable.
• Experience using AI-assisted design tools in an ethical and guideline-compliant manner is desirable.
• Experience related to gender equality, women, peace, security, and humanitarian affairs is desirable.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

Technologies

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe After Effects
• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Media Encoder
• Canva
• Adobe Creative Suite
• AI-assisted design tools

Background

UN Women operates to eliminate discrimination against women and girls, empowering women and advancing equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, and peace and security.

The Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action Programme in the Regional Office for the Arab States collaborates with United Nations partners, governments, and civil society to advance the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325. It supports women’s participation and influence at all levels of decision making to prevent and resolve conflicts and to ensure gender inclusion in humanitarian contexts.

Diversity and Inclusion

UN Women is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, or other legally protected characteristics. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, competence, integrity, and organizational need.

If you require reasonable accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.

UN Women maintains a zero tolerance policy on conduct incompatible with the aims of the United Nations, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. Selected candidates will undergo reference and background checks and related verification processes.

Applicants should ensure all sections of the application form are completed; incomplete submissions may be disqualified.