About the School of Human Development (SHD)
The School of Human Development (SHD) at IIHS focuses on social transformation. The School understands social transformation as a set of processes that are rooted in, and seek to directly address:
Inequality in social status and substantive rights based on identity;
The absence of material and economic dignity for the urban majority; and
Inequities in political presence, recognition and participation.

The School’s core focus areas are:
Decent work;
Affordable housing;
Social inequality;
Social protection;
Urban health;
Community mobilization;
Care Infrastructure.

Job Description
The IIHS School of Human Development (SHD) is looking for a skilled and versatile design illustrator who can translate text, research outputs, project insights, and complex ideas into meaningful, high-quality illustrations and visual communication assets.

This is a mid-level individual contributor role suited to someone with strong illustration ability, sound visual thinking, and the capacity to work across multiple projects.



The role requires the ability to understand research-led and text-heavy material, identify the core idea, and create illustrations and visual communication outputs that are explicit, accurate, engaging, and appropriate for different audiences.

The incumbent will work primarily on illustration-led outputs, while also supporting graphic design requirements where needed and helping adapt developed outputs into other formats for dissemination, such as social media assets, presentation visuals, web graphics, explainers, posters, event material or, and other communication formats.

This is a contractual engagement for an initial term of 6 months, renewable on mutual consent and based on performance.

Activities and Tasks
Responsibilities would include, but not be limited to, the following:
Illustration and visual interpretation:
Translating written content, research findings, project outputs, reports, briefs and conceptual material

📌 Design Illustrator – School of Human Development (Bengaluru)
🏢 Indian Institute for Human Settlements
📍 Bengaluru