Video Editor Consultant

Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

UN Women, jointly with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), and United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), will implement the WYDE/Women Leadership component through a three-year programme titled: "Advancing Women’s Political Participation and Decision-Making through Social Norms Change, Networking and Global Advocacy.” Over three years UN Women will leverage their convening power to facilitate feminist and women’s rights movements participation in global and regional advocacy spaces and access to decision-making fora. The four implementing partners will use the opportunity presented the EU’s WYDE initiative, to leverage collective action, partnerships, coordination, knowledge, and resources at a global level to support the full and effective participation and decision-making of diverse women, especially those most often left furthest behind.

The WYDE | Women Leadership programme will prioritize changing social norms and shifting cultural attitudes that portray women’s roles in communities and society as incompatible with political power; and put specific focus on building critical skills of young women and engage men and boys, office holders and the media as allies for gender equality and women’s empowerment. It will enhance synergies between women’s rights movements, member states, decision makers, the international community, the media, and other key actors, including the WYDE community across its different components, to maximize the effectiveness of spaces for coalition building, advocacy, and campaigning to promote WPP.

The consultant will report to the WYDE/Women Leadership Coordination, Communications & Advocacy Specialist, and will be supported by the Finance Associate, who will be the point of contact on the contract and payment issues.

Duties and Responsibilities

Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work

The Video Editor will work with the UN Women WYDE Women’s Initiative Leadership team to perform the following tasks:

• Create video shorts for social media (max 7 videos of 45 sec), using existing footage, showcasing WYDE Women’s Leadership initiative results, materials, interviews and more. The videos will be based on existing materials and footage of WYDE Women’s Leadership partners’ activities and will be edited for social media purposes to illustrate joint work of the WYDE Women Leadership initiative.

Principles:

• Visual messages should be positive and empowering and reflect the principle of partnering with women’s organizations and support to women from marginalized groups.
• The video is expected to reflect diversity and intersectional experiences of women and young women in leadership and in politics;
• The designs of the materials should be consistent with UN Women communications and branding guidelines and with the WYDE Women’s Leadership Guidelines (to be provided);
• UN Women will hold non-exclusive world rights in perpetuity of all designed submissions and products; UN Women will own the copyrights to the illustrations and materials produced.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a home-based consultancy.

Competencies

Required Skills and Experience