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Established in 1863, the ICRC operates worldwide, helping people affected by conflict and armed violence and promoting the laws that protect victims of war. An independent and neutral organization, its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. We are based in Geneva, Switzerland, and employ some 14,500 people in more than 80 countries. The ICRC is funded mainly by voluntary donations from governments and from national Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Senior UX / UI Designer

Accountabilities and Responsibilities

We expect the UX/UI Designer to work very closely with:

  • The business analyst. A key criteria for the choice of the candidate will be the ability and experience in successfully integrating UX/UI Design and business analysis activities to ensure coherence of deliverables, full scope coverage and leverage and integration with existing deliverables (business requirements, process and data models);
    The UX Designer. Depending on the project setup, there will be a UX designer working in parallel to you or there will be previous UX deliverables (persona, user journey, documented user research) provided by other team members or external providers. It is crucial you base your work on this research and work and continue to iterate on it;
    The development team. You will work closely with the development team in an agile set up, ensuring timely and efficient handovers, as well as quality checks once the designs have been implemented;
    The rest of the project team (including Functional Advisor, Change Manager, Product Owner, and Project Managers). Another key criteria will be the ability to work with different business experts, representatives of the users and end users who are mostly located in the field (remote interactions);
    The users. Together with the team take a pro-active approach to getting frequent user feedback. You will be the users advocate and have the responsibility of building a user-centric product.

We expect the UX/UI Designer to take the lead on the following activities and deliverables:

  • Creating accessible, intuitive digital products and services by clearly understanding the business needs, the user needs and the technical feasibility;
    Understand and apply the knowledge from previous analysis activities done by the project team, the BA, a UX designer or other project partners into concrete and actionable product decisions,
    Designing screens for a variety of interfaces and types of projects including the design of low fidelity wireframes and clickable prototypes as well as the design of high-fidelity, pixel perfect designs that can be handed over to the development team;
    Whilst designs are being developed by the team, maintaining regular check-ins, and ensuring the quality and tracking the progress;
    Taking a hands-on approach in building & contributing to the ICRC’s design system in a way that can grow and scale and support both internal and external designers and developers in shipping products more efficiently and consistently;
    Planning and leading usability testing sessions in order to test and iterate on existing prototypes and products;
    Applying the insights and measuring the results from user research to make product and feature decisions with the team;
    Being able to accurately scope the work, deliver a design roadmap, inform the team of any changes and delays that may occur in advance.

Deliverables:
Below some examples of deliverables we expect from a UX/UI Designer.

This greatly depends on the project content, the project phase and the team setup:

  • Information Architecture, Sitemap (sometimes done by BA or UX designer beforehand);
  • UI style guide and visual guidelines for the specific project, in line with ICRC design;
  • Wireframes – low fidelity (sometimes done by UX or BA, or other external provider);
  • Mockups – level up from low fidelity wireframes, outline of product, filling in the content;
  • Benchmarking, mood boards, visual competitor analysis and knowledge of UI current trends;
  • Clickable prototypes – in high fidelity design, clickable prototypes that can be tested with users and stakeholders, simulating real interactions;

Testing guides for usability tests;

  • Documentation of insights from usability tests with design decisions explained;
  • High Fidelity Design to approve with stakeholders and for handover to developers;
  • Design documentation throughout the process.

Scope & Impact

  • Geographical Remit: Global;
  • Provides high-level expertise and advise multi-stakeholders projects on user experience design.

Relationships

  • Internally, interacts with key user communities, other User Experience Designers and teams and development partners, ICT Projects Managers and Platform owners, ICT Field Management and senior stakeholders in the Field and Head Quarter;
  • Externally, interacts with local suppliers and with other organizations or partners.

Minimum Requirements and Competencies

  • University degree in multimedia, graphic design or communication, Computer Science) or professional diploma in digital design/visual communication, human factors, computer interaction, behavioural psychology;
  • Certification in Design, User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) Design or similar;
  • 8 -10 years professional experience in the field of Design, including 5-7 in UX/UI Design role;
  • Experience in facilitating high-level interactive workshops;
  • Experience with user research and agile project methodologies;
  • Experience running design sprints and design thinking workshops;
  • Experience in creating low and high-fidelity prototypes;
  • Experience with creating product/service strategies and product visions;
  • Experience performing usability testing sessions and using the insights to make product decisions;
  • Experience building and scaling a design system from scratch;
  • Agile certification, project management, or business analysis certification is a plus;
  • Proven experience working with global teams in a large organization or on global products.

Staff Health Officer 2

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Conducts context-specific health briefing for all new ICRC staff and debriefing for departing staff;
  • Conducts context- specific health risks assessment;
  • Ensures medical screening for recruitment and for specific professional categories as well as the yearly medical Green Light for mobile staff;
  • Assesses referral facilities for all ICRC staff;
  • Identifies national reference structures for vertical health programs;
  • Integrates the Medical Contingency Plan in the overall contingency plan of the delegation;
  • Coordinates Case Management, Medical Evacuation and repatriation, 24/7 Medical Hotline;
  • Ensures strict medical confidentiality;
  • Identifies referent medical staff and health care facilities for individual health care for all staff;
  • Provides individual medical follow-up for ICRC staff when advice is sought;
  • Ensures support in the implementation of the institutional stress management policy;
  • Organizes Peer support sessions in case of critical incidents;
  • Ensures all staff is informed on the policies and procedures regarding harassment at the workplace and offer medical support if needed;
  • Administrative accounting tasks related to staff health/insurance are performed confidentially;
  • Management of sickness leaves of staff on demand of administration/HR.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND COMPETENCIES

  • Degree in Bachelor of Medicine/ MBBS, with minimum 3 years of clinical experience;
  • Clinical experience, in mental health, stress management;
  • Experience and knowledge of medical insurance is an added advantage;
  • Knowledge of tropical health and public health systems;
  • MUST be Computer Proficient.

Method of Application

Use the link(s) below to apply on company website.

The interested candidates should fill up a form by clicking the link below on or before 29th July 2022 at 4:30 pm then submit their CV, motivation letter, including references details, supporting documents (Certificates, Diplomas, Degree etc) and current and expected remuneration to ICRC Nairobi Delegation, HR Department via the email address provided below:

– E-mail: nai_hrrec_services@icrc.org

The reference Senior UI/UX Designer and Staff Health Officer 2 must be stated in the application to be valid. If you do not fill out the required information as per the link provided or clearly state the position for which you are applying and attach the required certificates & other supporting documents, your application may not be considered.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Applicants must have the permanent right to work in Kenya.

Job Info
Job Category: Several Jobs in one Advert jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 29 July 2022  
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 18-07-2022
No of Jobs: 2
Start Publishing: 18-07-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 18-07-2065
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