Graphic Designer

A. About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
ADPC is an intergovernmental regional organization with a vision to reduce disaster
and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by
working with governments, development partners, international organizations,
NGOs, civil society, private sector, media, and other key stakeholders.
Established in 1986 as a technical capacity building center, ADPC has grown and
diversified its expertise across social and physical sciences to support sustainable
solutions for risk reduction across a broad range of specialist areas. With over 100
staff from 19 different nationalities and a wide range of professional expertise from
atmospheric scientists to social scientists with experiences from all levels of
engagement typically required for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate
Resilience (CR) in an effective manner. ADPC is a competent regional resource
center and has seven thematic departments: ADPC Academy, Risk Governance,
Climate Resilience, Urban Resilience, Health Risk Management, Preparedness for
Response and Recovery, Geospatial Information. These are supported by Finance,
Human Resources and Administration, and Strategic Planning departments. In
addition to the departments, ADPC works on three cross-cutting themes: Gender
and Diversity, Poverty and Livelihoods, and Regional and Transboundary
Cooperation through permanent working committees.
ADPC Strategy 2020 guides the organization in providing comprehensive risk
reduction support to countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific. ADPC
recognizes the importance of examining the linkages between disaster risk
management, poverty reduction, gender equality, sustainability, rights-based
approaches, climate change and regional cooperation.
For details please refer to ADPC website at http://www.adpc.net/

B. Background

Disasters take a huge toll on the development agenda of SAR countries. Between
2000 and 2017, disasters in South Asia incurred estimated damages of US$ 149.27
billion. Public expenditure is under stress by the repeated need to reallocate capital
budgets away from long term development planning and towards reconstruction
activities in post-disaster environments. For example, since 2005, Pakistan has
suffered losses on the order of US$ 16 billion due to natural disasters. In
Bangladesh, 2007 Cyclone Sidr resulted in damages and losses of US$1.7 billion, or
2.6 percent of GDP.
To increase resilience and achieve climate commitments, there is a need for a
transformational shift towards policies and institutions that enable climate resilient
investments. Investing in more resilient infrastructure is both profitable and urgent
as disruptions are extremely costly for governments, households and private sector
and large ongoing investments in infrastructure assets will have long-lasting
repercussions as poor maintenance and natural disasters result in a vulnerable
stock.
With the financial support from the World Bank Group, ADPC will be implementing
a five years’ project, titled “Climate Adaptation and Resilience Project for South
Asia” (CARE). The project aims to create an enabling environment for climate
resilience policies and investments across South Asia. This objective will be
achieved through enhanced regional cooperation and knowledge exchange for
climate resilience and adaptation and mainstreaming of resilience and adaptation
in national policies, plans and investments. The key target sectors under this
project such as agriculture, transport, water, planning, and finance will be piloted in
Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan. ADPC is entrusted for component 2 of the project
focusing on Enabling Climate Resilient Policies and Standards for Development with
the following sub-components:

1. Advisory services for policy and investment interventions
2. Promoting Climate Resilient Design and Standards
3. Implementation Support to Climate-Risk Management Solutions: Capacity
   building and technical support
4. Innovation for Climate Adaptation and Resilience
   The sub-component “Innovation for Climate Adaptation and Resilience” is
   implemented as part of the World Bank’s Program for Asia Resilience to Climate
   Change Multi-Donor Trust Fund (PARCC TF Grant). This is financed by the Foreign,
   Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO-UK) which will crowdsource
   innovative and disruptive technology solutions for resilience through grant awards,
   matchmaking, and pilot-testing. This involves a number of actions such as the
   formulation of resilience innovation, call for proposal, judging, award, presentation
   of results, documentation, and outreach in phases and is expected to stimulate

innovators to explore more climate-smart approaches to development in the
region. The resilience innovation is further divided into two categories:

1. Climate Innovation Challenge (CIC) will promote innovation in the South
   Asia Region (SAR) through the award of grants to eligible and qualifying innovators.
   This would include problem statements around Climate Data and information
   including short-term EWS and longer-term climate outlook data. The Climate
   Innovation Challenge will, therefore, aim to facilitate innovative solutions for their
   application and scale-up across different sectors, and tiers (national, sub-national
   and local/community) for greater impact.
2. TechEmerge Resilience India Challenge will be undertaken in India in
   collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) as a technical partner
   with an aim to crowd in private-sector expertise and market-based innovation for
   resilience through the use of disruptive technologies to address climate and
   disaster resilience challenges. After a comprehensive needs assessment, an open
   global call will be launched to source relevant proven well-tested solutions, that can
   be customized for the region. With the support of a network of technical advisors,
   the most relevant innovators will be selected and matched with beneficiary users to
   adopt and implement local pilot projects and form new partnerships. CARE project
   will provide grant funding to winning innovators and provide appropriate support
   for field testing/pilot activities.
   C. Statement of Intent
   In order to complete the documentation tasks on the Innovation for Climate
   Adaptation and Resilience, ADPC requires to hire a graphic designer to assist the
   Communication Team on a number of documents, webpage and articles using the
   ADPC in general and the CARE for South Asia Project Branding Style Guide in
   particular. The Illustrator and Graphic Designer is a junior consultant position in the
   ADPC’s Communication Unit to provide support to the project.
   The position will be based in Bangkok.
   Note:
   It is not the intent of this Terms of Reference to cover every aspect of the position
   requirements, rather highlight the most important areas of personal and joint
   responsibilities.

D. Duties and Responsibilities
The Graphic Designer shall provide the following inputs:
● Design and layout communication materials (e.g., reports, case studies,
handbooks, brochures, posters, and infographics) for printing and electronic
distribution based on ADPC and CARE’s branding guidelines;

● Develop graphic elements for the CIC website and social media including logos;
● Maintain co-branding while designing a product that is developed in
collaboration with partners;
● Develop and maintain CIC’s photo library;
● Custom photo editing;
● Video editing; and
● Any other task assigned by the supervisor.

E. Qualifications
Education
● A Bachelor’s Degree in graphic design or any other related qualifications
including art and design.
● Sufficient training and proficiency in graphic designing software like Adobe
Design Premium, In-Design, CorelDraw, or similar
Work Experience
● At least 3 years of experience in designing layouts, graphic designing,
transforming text-based communications materials into visual graphic
design materials such as infographic, newsletter, brochures, backdrop etc.
● Experience in developing designs for communication materials based on
project requirements
● Assist with the best and most relevant visual design style and materials
suitable for the target audience of the project
Functional Competencies:
● Excellent graphic design and creative skills
● Proficiency in design software
● Experience in the development of statistics, charts, and social networking
● Ability to respect timeframes and meet deadlines
Language Proficiency
● Fluency in English in reading, writing and speaking
We are looking to hire locally for the position

F. Reporting Relationships
The Graphic Designer will report to the Project Director, CARE for South Asia. The
consultant will work in close coordination with the Project Implementation Unit and
the Communication Team at ADPC.

G. Contract Duration
The contract duration will be for one (1) year.

H. Selection Method

The consultant will be selected in accordance with ADPC’s recruitment process and
in compliance with the World Bank Procurement Regulations.