BACKGROUND
DAI Europe, together with consortium partners First Consult; Enclude; and ITAD, is managing the UKaid-funded Enterprise Partners (EP) and Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Programme (WEDP) which aim to support and transform the private sector and Ethiopia’s continued economic growth over the next 6 years with a total project budget of almost £70 million.
EP is utilising the Making Markets Work for the Poor approach (M4P) and has two main pillars to achieve the goal of integrating the poor, and especially women, in sustainable economic enterprises that create jobs and improve incomes. The planned impact is to create 45,000 jobs (75% of which will be held by women) and increase the incomes of 65,000 households by at least 20%.
The EP pillars are:
DFID is also funding the technical assistance component of a separate World Bank programme as the third main pillar, the Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Programme (WEDP). The objective of the WEDP is to increase the earnings and employment of micro and small enterprises (MSEs), owned or partly owned by female entrepreneurs in targeted cities.
Background specific to this assignment
Enterprise Partners (EP) would like to recruit an individual or a firm that provides editorial and layout/graphic design services for a range of knowledge and communication products to disseminate at EP’s final closing event: “Job Creation in Ethiopia: Reflections, Lessons and Ways Forward from a Decade of Enterprise Development.”
PURPOSE
The aim for this consultancy is to professionally edit, copyedit and proofread a total of eight draft case studies, and design the layout and graphics to publish them as ‘chapter-like’ sections in a book format. The designer will also produce design options for an event board and other communication materials to disseminate at the EP final closing event.
SPECIFIC TASKS AND DELIVERABLES
Editor
Designer
Case study
Other materials
WORKING ARRANGEMENTS
The service provider will work in close coordination with and under the supervision of the Strategic Communications Team at Enterprise Partners. The editor/designer should be available for meetings with the Communications team as required. The Communications team will be responsible for the approval of the final version of all communication products.
TIMEFRAME AND INPUTS
The assignment will take place from April to June, 2020.
Strategic Communications Team
EP/WEDP reference number:
Sector: Strategic Communications
Fund used: DF / PAFResponsible Person: Strategic Communications Team (SCT)
Period of assignment: Full time
Job Requirement
The assignment requires an editor and designer with 5 -10 years of relevant experience in development communications.
Editor
The service provider must have excellent writing and editing skills with the ability to synthesize large amounts of technical information into digestible and creative communication messages.
Designer
The service provider must have proven experience in graphic design and production of published/printed products, in particular to books and case studies. They must have a good understanding of using various design software such as Adobe Design Premium, In-Design, Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat and more.
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