Girl Effect UI/UX Designer (Individual Consultant)Jobs in Kenya
Scope of Work
The objective is to support the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences by creating innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges ensuring they align with the organization’s behavior change goals and target audience needs. The designer will be expected to apply Human Centered Design thinking and approach not just within products, but also across the wider product ecosystem at Girl Effect and the complicated user journeys from product to product as well.
This consultant will conduct design sprints,consolidate outputs of design sessions, andsupport the running of feature prioritization sessions. They will also conduct prototyping activities collaboratively with a cohort of young people and other stakeholders across products such as chatbots, mobile applications, and brand websites, among others related to upcoming and existing products.
UX Analysis:
Devise and conduct a consultation plan with key stakeholders and target audiences including questionnaires, focus groups or interviews.
Conduct a thorough assessment of the current UX design, identifying usability challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
Create user personas and scenarios to guide the design improvements based on user needs and goals.
Conduct concept and usability testing in the field with users
Provide a detailed report summarizing the findings, including prioritized recommendations for UX enhancements to stakeholders and developers.
UI Enhancement:
Utilize the insights from the UX analysis to redesign and enhance the visual appearance of the web platform’s user interface.
Define interaction models, UI components, and navigation structures to optimize user engagement and facilitate information discovery.
Incorporate interactive elements to enhance usability and convey complex concepts effectively.
Develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, and mockups to illustrate proposed UI changes.
Implement modern design principles, including responsiveness, consistency, and visual hierarchy, while aligning with our brand identity.
Ensure the new UI design elements fit seamlessly into the existing platform’s technical framework, ensuring a consistent and cohesive user experience across all website components.
Collaborate with Designers and Developers to create intuitive, user-friendly software to ensure that the updated UI maintains or improves the platform’s overall performance and loading speed.
Support UI content creation as and when required.
Skills, Expertise and Requirements:
You must be based in Kenya with the ability to attend in-person sessions in Nairobi and Migori counties.
You must be fluent in Swahili and English.
4+ years of professional experience in a design consultancy or equivalent position collaborating with multidisciplinary teams
Fluency in the human-centered design process from qualitative research and synthesis to ideation, prototyping, and implementation.
Service Design, UX, UI – Proficiency in wireframing and design tools such as Invision, Figma, Miro etc.
You are solution-focused and medium-agnostic, willing to step out of your core skill set or discipline to find the correct solution to a design challenge.
You have cultural sensitivity, creativity, and resourcefulness—comfortable finding your way through.
You deliver precise and effective written and verbal communication to convey ideas, instructions, and feedback to team members, girls and young women.
Highly Desirable
Experience in health-related content/Behavior change content production in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Economic Empowerment would be a massive bonus.
Experience in Conversational Interfaces such as Chatbots
Basic Understanding/development of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Cross-cultural design experience and/or working in design for ICT4D
Experience working in emerging markets.
Experience collaborating with in-house and third-party developers in agile sprints, stewarding the transfer of design to development.
Safeguarding
You may be required to undertake safeguarding checks. Shortlisted consultants will be assessed on our organizational values at the interview stage, and the successful consultant will be expected to adhere to our safeguarding policy. We encourage you to read and understand our safeguarding policy, the executive summary of which can be found here. We have zero-tolerance for all forms of violence against children, beneficiaries and staff.
Equal Opportunities
Girl Effect Services is committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to building an organization that is increasingly representative of and works extensively with, the communities that we serve. To this end, due regard will be paid to procuring consultancy service organizations and individuals with diverse professional, academic and cultural backgrounds.
How to Apply
Please submit proposals, as described above, to [email protected]
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