Apply for Consultancy for Multimedia content producers (Long Term Agreement) – Nationals only (24 months) Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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Background:

UNICEF Egypt requires constant manufacturing of communication, advocacy, and visibility supplies. These supplies are essential for documenting key youngsters’s points and UNICEF’s responses by means of high quality multimedia content packages. Utilized as advocacy instruments, these packages play a pivotal position in lobbying assist from policymakers, media, donors, companions, and most of the people. 

They are notably efficient in highlighting key precedence areas together with humanitarian responses. Each 

excessive-high quality content package deal comprises movies and photographs and compelling tales. To maximize their attain, these content packages are disseminated by means of numerous channels together with social media, publications, exterior media networks, accomplice networks, and donor experiences.  

To fulfill this ongoing want, UNICEF Egypt is searching for the companies {of professional} multimedia content producer professionals. These professionals ought to present skilled videography and images companies and be available, even at brief discover, to undertake initiatives. This contains subject visits to doc UNICEF’s work and programmes successfully. 

Objective:

UNICEF Egypt seeks to determine Long Term Agreements (LTA’s) with a number of certified professionals to supply multimedia content for totally different actions and occasions. The footage and movies will probably be utilized by UNICEF and its companions throughout numerous platforms (together with digital and print). The footage and movies may also probably be shared and utilized by UNICEF HQ, UNICEF regional and different nation places of work, governmental companions and different companions reminiscent of media, NGO and different UN businesses.

Methodology:

Duties will entail delivering the beneath talked about duties inside the agreed timeframe as per every task.

Requirements for Multimedia Content Production companies:

1. Programme exercise protection – skilled images and videography documentation of UNICEF Egypt’s supported programmes, actions and occasions.
2. Visual storytelling with captions and quotes – skilled photographic and videographic storytelling centered on youngsters and their households
3. Everyday Voices – portraits of youngsters, younger individuals, common topics, beneficiaries or key actors and companions of UNICEF.  

Summary:

Videography

• Pre-production: Discussion, conceptualization, planning/storyboarding, constructing narratives and scripts, writing manufacturing plans, taking pictures schedules, and so forth.
• Production: Film on web site in agreed areas.
• Post-Production: Editing and last packaging, in line with UNICEF tips and necessities. This contains growing the required deliverables as indicated beneath.
• Ensure movies and all contents submitted have embedded captions

Photography

• Document and illustrate the state of affairs of youngsters and different beneficiaries as determined by UNICEF Egypt.
• Take photographs that present visibility to UNICEF’s work and for UNICEF’s publications, experiences and donor relations. This would require journey inside Egypt to the sector.
• Ensure photographs are effectively captioned in line with UNICEF tips

Story writing (non-obligatory)

• Write photograph essays and human-curiosity tales that includes younger individuals and UNICEF beneficiaries from the sector; their tales, quotes, struggles and achievements.
• Using UNICEF knowledge to advocate for youngsters’s rights by means of these story and shedding gentle on UNICEF interventions.

The guide ought to:

1. Read and abide by the UNICEF tips on moral imagery and images and videography norms and code of ethics. (see: 8 quick steps to ethical imagery).
2. Ensure consent types are signed by youngsters and/or guardians as per UNICEF tips (steerage will probably be supplied on the method for chosen consultants).
3. Provide effectively captioned photographs which have particulars of when, the place and who the photograph is about.
4. Ensure all footage ought to be leading edge and meet newest, competing technical commonplace.
5. Demonstrate a consumer-oriented method, tact and skill to work with individuals of various nationwide and cultural backgrounds.
6. Ensure dignity of topics, notably within the context of youngsters and weak teams.
7. Ensure efficient and environment friendly provision of companies, full confidentiality in all facets of task, administration of data circulation and observe-up on deadlines and commitments made.

ACTIVITIES, DELIVERABLES AND TIMELINES, PLUS BUDGET PER DELIVERABLE:

The following are commonplace duties and might embrace however not restricted to:

Key Tasks	Expected Outputs	ESTIMATED DURATION TO COMPLETE	Payment
Photo documentation of state of affairs of youngsters, UNICEF and companions’ programmes, initiatives, actions (reminiscent of occasions, PSAs’ [1] backstage, subject visits…and so forth.)	Document state of affairs of youngsters, success tales and outcomes of programmes and initiatives specializing in youngsters and younger individuals; Document key moments of the exercise, in-motion/pure pictures of contributors with particular concentrate on youngsters and different beneficiaries, UNICEF personnel, companions, excessive-degree figures together with Goodwill Ambassadors, and so forth. (in line with briefing). These ought to be documented with strict adherence to UNICEF photograph tips and moral imagery.	On completion of task and receipt of an bill.	Payment will only be made for work satisfactorily accomplished and accepted by UNICEF.
Portraits of people	For every photograph task, top quality footage will probably be supplied in good high quality .RAW or .JPEG format. The whole quantity required may be decided as per task wants. The footage supplied will embrace some shut up, medium and large pictures. Selected footage as per the requesting officer ought to be supplied through the agreed communication channel (e.g. WhatsApp or google drive hyperlink…and so forth.)  inside 1 hour from the top of any occasion, the remaining being supplied inside 48 hours.
Photo and movies together with B-rolls inventory replace (photograph session is perhaps wanted), artistic brief movies for social media reels and tales.	Interviews with beneficiaries and companions and inserts for them in motion in addition to generic B-roll for establishing pictures and pictures with destructive house for on-display-textual content. Videos are both delivered uncooked or edited (with colouring, royalty-free music, subtitles and on-display textual content) in line with the temporary. Shots ought to be horizontal however contemplating they are going to be usable each vertically and horizontally. They ought to be taken in artistic methods to protect the topic’s anonymity when required.
Human-interest tales and photograph essays (non-obligatory)	Writing tales from the sector in English or Arabic in line with UNICEF tips.
The last duties and deliverables will probably be decided as per the necessities of the person assignments.

Conditions of labor:

-Consultants ought to conduct all work independently, in accordance with skilled requirements. This contains working from their very own workplace house and utilizing their very own {hardware} and software program gear.

-Assignments will probably be inside and out of doors Cairo. Travel prices ought to be indicated within the monetary provide underneath “Accommodation and commute” and these are the only prices that will probably be coated (see: monetary Annex).

-Same-day cancellation of assignments is compensated as half day inside Cairo and full day outdoors Cairo.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you’ll have… 

-Professional photographer and videographer with a minimum of 5-years {of professional} work expertise and high quality portfolio.

-Ability to ship photographs and movies on time, in line with the required high quality and technical necessities in images and videography tips for UNICEF Egypt.

-Flexibility in accommodating to brief-discover assignments inside and out of doors Cairo.

-Awareness and compliance of UN and UNICEF tips on moral imagery, interviewing and photographing of youngsters.

-Experienced in working with UN or comparable worldwide organizations/media is an asset.

-Excellent English and Arabic communication abilities.

-Ability to work on demand, multi-process and ship forward of tight deadline.

How to apply:

The application to be submitted by means of the web portal ought to include three separate attachments:

-Cover letter: explaining the motivation for making use of and explaining how the {qualifications} and talent-set of the candidate are appropriate for this place (to be uploaded on-line)

-Technical provide: CV and work samples – You can both share a file with the hyperlinks to your work samples or you may add the paperwork (to be uploaded underneath different supporting paperwork). Photography and videography samples are obligatory, writing samples are non-obligatory should you’re additionally offering writing companies.

-Financial provide: Please use this annex as your monetary provide’s template (hooked up beneath). (to be uploaded underneath different supporting paperwork). Submit your charges for service, journey and lodging if relevant together with any VAT in Egyptian Pounds. Please don’t forget to specify your title within the file whereas saving.

Without the monetary proposal template your application will probably be thought-about incomplete

Any try to unduly affect UNICEF’s choice course of will result in automated disqualification of the applicant.

Joint purposes of two or extra people aren’t accepted.

Please be aware, UNICEF doesn’t cost any price throughout any stage of the method.

Financial provide’s template:

Zone	Governorate	Daily price for as much as 5-hour taking pictures	Daily price for greater than 5-hour taking pictures	Daily price of lodging and day bills (e.g. meals)	One-way commute	Edited social media video (1-2 minutes) with interviews and inserts only	Edited social media video (1-2 minutes) with subtitles and music	Daily price for particular video gear
A	Greater Cairo
B	Luxor, Aswan, North and South Sinai
C	Alexandria, Marsa Matrouh, Delta governorates, Canal governorates
D	Upper Egypt governorates (besides Luxor and Aswan)

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Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

Individuals engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “staff members” underneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (reminiscent of go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will probably be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines. 

The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for the complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of totally-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking over the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and aren’t anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the length of their consultancy contracts.