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Background for the Centre of Excellence 

Victoria University’s (VU) Youth and Community Research Group and Youth Affairs Council Victoria (YACVic) are partnering to establish the Centre of Excellence: Young People & Disasters (the Centre). 

The Centre champions the inclusion and active involvement of young people to contribute to all aspects of disasters.  

We do this by:   

  • Bringing together expertise around young people (12-25 years), youth participation and disasters. 
  • Taking a strengths-based approach, recognising the capabilities and contributions of young people as active citizens in disaster readiness, resilience, and risk reduction.  
  • Acknowledging that climate change is impacting disasters, causing them to be more frequent and more intense. Disasters are now experienced as multiple, compounding and cascading events. Young people’s futures are disproportionately affected. 
  • Aiming to strengthen the capacity of relevant emergency and disaster organisations to engage and work with young people. 
  • Acting as a clearing house for knowledge translation, commissioning, contributing to, and disseminating research with, and about young people’s engagement with disasters.  
  • Utilising evidence to inform and improve engagement with young people and policy responses.  
  • Championing place-based approaches, prioritising local community responses enabling young people’s agency as active citizens.  
  • Advocating with young people for young people’s rights and wellbeing. 

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What the brand is for 

The Centre is a new entity, that needs a youth-friendly, engaging, recognisable and accessible brand and logo. 

Deliverables 

We are looking for a designer to create the following: 

  1. Logo 
  2. Colours 
  3. Font 
  4. Brand guide 

This is a collaborative process with young people involved. Our Youth Advisory Group (YAG) is playing an active role in helping to shape the brand and logo. We have consulted them on colours, imagery, font, the ‘vibe’ and feel of the brand and what we want it to communicate to our audiences. 

Budget 

We have 10k available for this commission. 

Timeline 

Ideally, we would like this work completed in 3-4 weeks depending on your availability.  

Below is a proposed timeline: 

May 26: EOI’s open 

June 9: EOI’s close 

June 16: designer notified, and brief sent 

June 18: meet with the team for a Q&A on the brief  

June 30: Round 1 concept due (two weeks after brief sent) 

July 2: Feedback supplied (after consulting YAG) 

July 16: Final brand and logo submission: (two weeks after receiving feedback) 

We do have some flexibility with dates; this proposed timeline is just to give you an idea. But we would like everything completed by mid-July. 

How to apply 

Please fill out this form to apply.