PROJECT DESCRIPTION - Website Developer - UNICEF Innovation Website
UNICEF's innovation group is looking to build a small public website powered by an open source CMS.
Who We Are:
We are a small cross-division team in UNICEF that develops strategies and partnerships and investigates technologies that can improve UNICEF’s ability to do its work. Our job is to create systems and frameworks that allow for innovation produced at country levels to percolate upwards and sideways – we work to create spaces that encourage innovators. In 2010 there will be a merging of an existing innovation group focused on supply and one focused on communications.
Our Organization: UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Project Details:
We are looking to create a space for an outside audience of professionals (Private Sector, Academia, NGO’s and other UN Agencies) to be able to both learn and participate in innovative work that UNICEF is doing. Multiple divisions in UNICEF have started innovation teams or projects within the organization focused on a variety of products, partnerships, and strategies intended to help UNICEF in its core mission. This site should align these various efforts and provide a single place for work to be featured, and ideas or partnerships be solicited. The focus would be on encouraging participation around the “thinking” aspects of UNICEF’s work, as well as documentation of programmatic successes and failures.
The content approach and ideas will be combined with some additional sections from our intranet (which can be shown during face to face meetings) and expanded to address our wider mandate. Some of that information can be found here:
http://www.unicef.org/supply/index_50322.html
We want to align various organization wide efforts, making sure to give attention to small one off efforts as well as larger innovation projects. We want to be able to explain the work that is being done clearly and show the impacts that it has had on children’s lives. We want to be able to pose challenges UNICEF is facing to a wide public audience. We want to provide a way for individuals as well as organizations to share ideas for ways to improve UNICEF’s work (suggestions, discussion, design contests, academic courses, fellowship programs, contributions to our open source projects). UNICEF is looking to convene ideas and implementers around its core mission of improving mother and childhood development globally.
Overview of Audience:
The primary user base of the site would be professionals from the private sector, academia, or other NGO’s who are interested in what we do. Ideally they would have heard about the work (we present often and our work is frequently written about) we are doing and would be looking to learn more, suggest potential innovative solutions, or be looking for ways to partner.
Secondary users include:
1) An internal UNICEF audience (the primary site for this audience is our intranet)
2) Media and Journalists
3) A non-professional lay audience looking to learn generally about UNICEF’s work
4) Students who are interested in challenges.
Technological Components:
1) The website will be small but with some interactive parts.
2) The front end code must be semantic with a clean XHTML for the structure and CSS for the presentation.
3) The site needs to be powered by an easy to use open source CMS. (though not Drupal)
4) There will be a design/branding component.
Time Lines:
Proposals are due on Monday November 16th at 3pm EST.
If you are interested in reading more about this project please see the link below for the official Request for Proposal (RFQ). All information on how to bid for this project can be found at the following link:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dz882r4_13f94bxfch
Good luck!
UNICEF Innovation Team
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