About the Organization:

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global development network. They advocate for change and connect countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life for them. They provide expert advice, training and grants support to developing countries, with increasing emphasis on assistance to the least developed countries. They promote technical and investment cooperation among nations.

Position: Individual Consultant – Animation Developer

Background:

The Enterprise Application Development (EAD) unit of the Information Technology Services (ITS) is responsible for developing sustainable and affordable IT solutions to meet UNOV/UNODC requirements, also enabling availability of the solutions more generally across the UN Secretariat entities.

The India Technical Hub (EAD-ITH) based in New Delhi forms part of the vital delivery pillars of the ITS in keeping with the UN’s revised ICT strategy. As part of this strategy and under the direct supervision of the Head – ITH; the Animation Developer will work with a team of highly motivated eLearning professionals and work with the Instructional Designing team and Course Authoring team, Taking an active role on both sides in conceptualizing and creative moving/animated content,

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Visualise and create engaging and interactive 2D/3D animations for e-learning courses to be used on multiple devices;
• Brainstorm and conceptualise ideas, with the ability to produce quick concept edits and pre-visualisation video edits;
• Design and create an overall look and feel for motion graphics projects;
• Collaborate with the design team to come up with unique and engaging creative experiences;
• Discuss ideas for images, graphics and animations with team members before applying them in the development;
• Training and scaling up of associate graphic Developers and animators;
• Develop highly visual and interactive learning content based upon storyboards;
• Communicate effectively with the development team;
• Maintain project documentation and course folders during the project lifecycle;
• Ensures assets/data security and integrity;
• Perform other duties as assigned;

Required Skills and Experience:

Qualifications:

Education: University degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in Arts or related field.

Experience: A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in graphic designing, developing 2D and 3D animations for online training courses using After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Premier and 3D software - Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3Ds Max.

Languages: English and Hindi

Source:https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=96387