Consultant - Climate Change Content Producer, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal (15 days)

The consultant will work under the supervision of the ROSA Communication and Advocacy and Climate teams, and in close coordination with UNICEF Pakistan, to conceptualize, design and produce a series of visual communication assets, showcasing UNICEF’s programmatic response to climate change through compelling stories of rightsholders receiving services. The final content assets produced will be raw and post-produced photos with highly detailed captions, photo story, b-roll and edited videos.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

UNICEF's Regional Office for South Asia (ROSA) works with all eight UNICEF Country Offices (COs) to help design, deliver and demonstrate results for children in the region. In South Asia, UNICEF continues to make tangible progress in improving the quality of life of vulnerable children and their families by strengthening vital sectors including health, nutrition, education, WASH, child protection, adolescent development and participation, climate change, gender equality and inclusiveness.
 
Climate Change is an escalating equity issue in South Asia, with boys and girls affected differently based on their intersecting economic status, rural/urban location, culture, level of education, ethnicity and others. The incessant onslaught of manmade and natural disasters and erratic and extreme weather patterns such as floods, droughts, extreme heatwaves and winters, earthquakes, tropical storms are increasingly exposing children and youth to a myriad of dangers and vulnerabilities and hindering their growth and development. Addressing Climate Change issues urgently and sustainably will build a more sustainable future for children and youth, and for the region as well.

Mitigating climate change is also a key advocacy priority for ROSA. As part of its advocacy efforts, the ROSA Communication and Advocacy section has been leveraging significant regional and global moments and all its digital channels to catalyse partnerships with key audiences and push for solutions to combat climate change.

UNICEF requires a content producer, who offers services in the field of photography, filmmaking and coordination, to produce high quality multimedia assets capturing the impact of UNICEF’s climate programming. It is envisioned that the content, characters, stories and evolution of the Climate programme will span several years as part of a longitudinal project.

This high-quality multimedia content will be disseminated through ROSA, CO and HQ platforms and channels.

Scope of work:

The consultant will work under the supervision of the ROSA Communication and Advocacy and Climate teams, and in close coordination with UNICEF Pakistan, to conceptualize, design and produce a series of visual communication assets, showcasing UNICEF’s programmatic response to climate change through compelling stories of rightsholders receiving services.  The final content assets produced will be raw and post-produced photos with highly detailed captions, photo story, b-roll and edited videos.

Main Deliverables:

1. Production Plan by end December 2024
2. High Quality Photos with Captions by March 2025
3. Up to 30 minutes of b-roll by March 2025
4. Up to 4 edited videos by March 2025
5. Up to 2 photo stories by March 2025

Note: This is remote based consultancy. The location of the consultancy is Pakistan. Consultant is required to travel to field for the assignment. The consultancy is for 15 days between December 2024 to June 2025.

Remarks: Please attach your financial proposals with your application. 

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Education:

An advanced university degree (master's or higher) in photography, videography, film making or photojournalism.  Alternatively, a first level university degree (Bachelor’s) in combination with 2 years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:

• Experience internationally delivering on high profile photography projects and contributes extensively to national and international media outlets
• At least 7 years of proven experience in multimedia development and demonstrated ability to produce high quality, visual communication collaterals.
• Reputed content producer with demonstrated experience in producing high quality content packages (films, human interest stories, photo and video packages)
• Good understanding of designing for digital platforms.
• Ability to conceptualize a full-content package for various platforms, telling a story and creating a design concept to link the content as part of the package
• Should be able to partner with UNICEF to work in an inclusive way and increase brand value and trust with rightsholders and through the content produced.

Language Requirement: Excellent command over written and verbal English language is a must

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

To view our competency framework, please visit  here. 

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic background, and persons with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. To create a more inclusive workplace, UNICEF offers paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. Click here to learn more about flexible work arrangements, well-being, and benefits.

According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has committed to increase the number of employees with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we provide reasonable accommodation for work-related support requirements of candidates and employees with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen physical and digital accessibility. If you are an applicant with a disability who needs digital accessibility support in completing the online application, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.