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Website Designer Consultant (Request for Proposal)
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Deliverable: Graphic and Website Design Services
Duration: 8 months (April 2025 - March 2026)
Budget: $13,500 (inc. HST)
Reports to: Executive Director
Position Type: External Consultant
Location: Remote, anywhere in Canada
Date Posted: February 7, 2025
Proposal Deadline: March 5, 2025 (11:59 pm PT)
About Us
Women in Urbanism Canada (WIUC) is a national not-for-profit organization working to address gender-based inequalities within Canadian cities.
We are a women-led community working to transform Canadian cities into more equitable, enjoyable, and sustainable places for everyone.
Our mission is to inspire and mobilize women-led transformation in Canadian cities.
Our guiding principles are to be caring, sharing, collaborating, amplifying, supporting, and mobilizing.
Background
The idea for WIUC emerged in late 2018, inspired by the book Change of Plans: Towards a Non-Sexist Sustainable City and the New Zealand-based non-profit, Women in Urbanism Aotearoa. Background work began in fall of 2021, with WIUC being publicly launched in January 2022. A Founding Board of Directors was established in November 2022, growing the team from two Co-Founders to ten Directors. In January 2023, the organization was incorporated as a national non-profit organization, soon after it received its first programming micro-grant, and in June 2023, launched its membership program. In spring 2024, WIUC hosted its first-ever Annual General Meeting, and shortly thereafter, received a capacity building grant to help scale the organization in tangible ways.
WIUC has recently welcomed an Executive Director and Project Coordinator to the team, and is now working to advance key priorities related to capacity building that will maximize WIUC’s impact. Learn more about the organization at www.WomenInUrbanism.ca.
Objectives
WIUC aims to update its branding and redesign its website, with the objective of making our digital communications more visually accessible, engaging, informative, user-friendly, and multilingual.
We are seeking competitive proposals from qualified consultant(s) that have graphic and website design expertise, with the requirement to understand and apply accessible design standards. The successful designer(s) will work alongside the Executive Director and Project Coordinator, with additional guidance from the Board of Directors.
Scope
The project scope includes the following deliverables:
Website Audit (15%)
Accessibility and user-experience audit of current website
Branding Update & Website Redesign (70%)
Update of brand design guidelines, including logo(s), colour palette, icons, and templates
Redesign of website menu map, visuals, layout, search functions, content, interactivity, plug-ins, etc.
Testing (10%)
Test and troubleshoot to ensure compliance with accessibility standards
Training (5%)
Deliver applicable training session(s) for staff & board on how to use, maintain, and update website
Request for Proposal
The proposal should include the following sections:
Organization Profile
About the organization
Designer profile(s)
Project Plan
Work Plan (e.g., description of phases, activities, timelines, and deliverables)
Budget
Anticipated budget for each phase (and proposed add-on design services for our consideration, e.g., photography, videography, copywriting, animation, etc.)
Previous Work
2-3 work samples and/or link to portfolio showcasing designs
2-3 past/current client references and contact information
Appendices
Any additional information you’d like to share with us that did not fit in the other prescribed sections
Submission
If you would like to work with us to improve our website, we encourage you to submit your proposal via email to hello@womeninurbanism.ca with the subject line including “Website Designer Proposal” before March 5, 2025.
Your application should include the required sections (up to 10 pages) in one document (PDF) labeled with your organization’s name and the submission type (e.g., Organization-Name_Website-Designer-Proposal).
We encourage organizations to identify their team’s relevant equity-deserving identities (BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, Disabled, etc.) and/or lived experiences to support us in prioritizing women-led organizations and the inclusion of diverse identities and experiences on our extended team.
We are open to addressing any questions or clarifications needed for submission. Please submit your questions via email to hello@womeninurbanism.ca before February 26, 2025. We shall respond directly by email and will make any questions and answers publicly available on our website shortly after.
Selection
Proposals are thoroughly reviewed and evaluated using a screening matrix that weighs various factors, such as demonstrated expertise in website and graphic design, familiarity with accessibility standards, clarity of proposal, innovative tactics, cost-effectiveness, and more. The organization(s) with top proposals may be contacted for additional information and/or an introductory call to help inform the final selection. The selected consultant(s) will be recommended to the Board of Directors, and with approval, an offer and accompanying service contract will be provided to initiate the project.
We sincerely appreciate all proposals, but please note that only the organizations with top submissions will be contacted directly.
If you run into technical challenges while applying or have questions, please contact us at hello@womeninurbanism.ca.
Additional Information
www.WomenInUrbanism.ca is built on the Squarespace platform.
Budget is available to support website translation to French.
The organization is in the process of developing a strategic plan, along with an EDI strategy, funding strategy, and communications strategy, all of which can help inform the project.
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) Consultant (Request for Proposal)
Download the PDF for more information and/or view the posting details below.
Deliverable: EDI Consultant Services
Duration: 10 months (March - December 2025)
Budget: $13,000 (inc. HST)
Reports to: Executive Director
Position Type: External Consultant
Location: Remote, anywhere in Canada
Date Posted: January 24, 2025
Proposal Deadline: February 19, 2025 (11:59 pm PT)
About Us
Women in Urbanism Canada (WIUC) is a national not-for-profit organization working to address gender-based inequalities within Canadian cities.
The idea for WIUC emerged in late 2018, inspired by the book Change of Plans: Towards a Non-Sexist Sustainable City and the New Zealand-based non-profit, Women in Urbanism Aotearoa. Background work began in fall of 2021, with WIUC being publicly launched in January 2022. A Founding Board of Directors was established in November 2022, growing the team from two Co-Founders to ten Directors. In January 2023, the organization was incorporated as a national non-profit organization, soon after it received its first programming micro-grant, and in June 2023, launched its membership program. In spring 2024, WIUC hosted its first-ever Annual General Meeting, and shortly thereafter, received a capacity building grant to help scale the organization in tangible ways.
WIUC has recently welcomed an Executive Director and Project Coordinator to the team, and is now working to advance key priorities related to capacity building that will maximize WIUC’s impact. Learn more about the organization at www.WomenInUrbanism.ca.
Objectives
WIUC is seeking competitive proposals from qualified consultant(s) who have expertise in EDI within the non-profit sector, ideally with a focus on intersectional feminism. The goal is to co-create an actionable Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigenization, and Accessibility (JEDIIA) (including Anti-Racism, Decolonization, and Reconciliation) Strategy. This strategy will be integrated into the organization's strategies, policies and activities. The successful consultant(s) will work alongside the Executive Director, with additional guidance from the Board of Directors.
Scope and Deliverables
The project scope includes the following deliverables:
Strategy Development (50%)
Actionable JEDIIA Strategy
Public Commitment Statement
Policy Development (30%)
Approx. 3-5 JEDIIA Policies
Embedding EDI (15%)
Recommendations for embedding JEDIIA across organization Strategies, Policies, Activities, Budgets, etc.
Training (5%)
Deliver approx. 1-2 applicable training session(s) for Staff and Board
Request for Proposal
The proposal should include the following sections:
Organization Profile
About the organization
Consultant profile(s)
Project Plan
Approach, Methodologies, and Work Plan
Budget
Anticipated budget (and as applicable, proposed add-on services for our consideration)
Previous Work
2-3 examples and associated outcomes of comparable projects
2-3 past/current client references
Submission
If you would like to work with us to advance JEDIIA within our organization and beyond, we encourage you to submit your proposal via email to hello@womeninurbanism.ca with the subject line including “EDI Consultant Proposal” before February 19, 2025.
Your application should include the required sections (up to 10 pages) in one document (PDF) labeled with your organization’s name and the submission type (e.g., Organization-Name_EDI-Consultant-Proposal).
We encourage organizations to identify their team’s relevant equity-deserving identities (BIPOC, LGBTQ2S+, Disabled, etc.) and/or lived experiences to support us in prioritizing women-led organizations and the inclusion of diverse identities and experiences on our extended team.
We are open to addressing any questions or clarifications needed for submission. Please submit your questions via email to hello@womeninurbanism.ca before February 12, 2025. We shall respond directly by email and will make any questions and answers publicly available on our website shortly after.
Selection
Proposals are thoroughly reviewed and evaluated using a screening matrix that weighs various factors, such as demonstrated expertise in EDI, subject matter knowledge, clarity of proposal, innovative methods, cost-effectiveness, and overall alignment with organization values. The organization(s) with top proposals may be contacted for additional information and/or an introductory call to help inform the final selection. The selected consultant(s) will be recommended to the Board of Directors, and with approval, an offer and accompanying service contract will be provided to initiate the project.
We sincerely appreciate all proposals, but please note that only the organizations/individuals with top submissions will be contacted directly.
If you run into technical challenges while applying, please contact us at hello@womeninurbanism.ca.