MHPSS Design & Development Consultant
Organizational Context
UNICEF operates in over 190 countries, dedicated to saving children's lives, protecting their rights, and helping them reach their full potential. We are committed to promoting the rights of every child, viewing it not just as a job but as a calling. UNICEF offers diverse opportunities for professional and personal growth, fostering a sense of purpose while serving children globally.
Job Purpose
The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Design & Development Consultant will be instrumental in the design and development of the UNICEF-WHO Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) accountability mechanism prototype. This role involves providing subsequent launch and optimization support, and continuing broader MHPSS design and development support, including platform maintenance and technical improvements for MHPSS digital products throughout the consultancy period. The consultancy aims to strengthen accountability for mental health commitments and accelerate progress for children, adolescents, and caregivers worldwide by providing a transparent platform to monitor commitments, track implementation, and share progress, ensuring political commitments translate into tangible actions, investments, and improved services.
Responsibilities
The consultant will lead the design and development of the UNICEF-WHO CAMH accountability prototype, ensuring it meets functional and technical requirements. This includes gathering design and functional requirements, developing information architecture, and applying UX design principles. The consultant will be responsible for creating a clean, simple, and sharp visual design, adhering to atomic design principles and a component-based theme approach. Development will focus on responsive Drupal theme development using Bootstrap, ensuring compatibility across desktop and mobile devices. Experience in theme planning and architecture based on existing development is crucial. The consultant must ensure adherence to web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and develop multilingual theming capabilities, including Right-to-Left (RTL) support. Technical Drupal development will involve implementing Drupal 9 and Drupal 8 websites, extending or creating contributed modules, and managing multilingual sites with added complexity. Agile methodology and the use of software development tools like Jira, VSTS, and GitHub are required, along with experience in git-based repositories. The consultant will also implement automated testing using Behat and continuous integration systems (e.g., Travis CI, Jenkins), and utilize Drupal as a service solutions such as Acquia or Pantheon.
Work Experience
Required experience includes UX/UI Design, visual design sensibility, systematic and analytical problem-solving, rapid absorption of new technical information, design and functional requirements gathering, information architecture and UX design development, atomic design and component-based theming, and Drupal theme development for responsive websites using Bootstrap. Technical experience includes Drupal theme development, responsive theming for various devices, theme planning, web accessibility standards, multilingual theming (RTL), Drupal 9/8 implementation, module extension/creation, managing complex multilingual sites, agile methodology, software dev tools, git repositories, automated testing (Behat), continuous integration, and Drupal as a service solutions.
Skills
UX/UI Design, Information Architecture, Drupal Theme Development, Responsive Design, Atomic Design, Web Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), Multilingual Theming (RTL), Agile Methodology, Automated Testing (Behat), Continuous Integration, Drupal 9/8, Bootstrap