🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) – Consultant – Writing and Photography Services for Human Interest Stories (Hybrid)
Consultant - Writing and Photography Services for Human Interest Stories, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 30 days (Hybrid)
Job no: 574146
Position type: Consultant
Location: Sierra Leone
Division/Equivalent: Dakar (WCAR), Senegal
School/Unit: Sierra Leone
Department/Office: Freetown, Sierra Leone
Categories: Communication
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.
For every child, an advocate.
Please access UNICEF Sierra Leone information here and here
How can you make a difference?
Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
To produce 20 high-quality Human-Interest Stories and photos of UNICEF-supported programmes in Sierra Leone, for inclusion in donor reports.
Scope of Work:
UNICEF has a strong brand reputation across media platforms in Sierra Leone, communities, and partners. Across the board, the UNICEF brand is regarded as a formidable frontrunner on children's issues in Sierra Leone. This gives the brand the relevant credibility and moral stature needed to advocate for and promote the cause of children and young people in Sierra Leone. This positive recognition also sets a solid foundation for UNICEF to leverage, build a stronger voice, and take the lead in child rights and advocacy initiatives.
Advocacy and visibility are critical toward the successful implementation/facilitation of all UNICEF programmes - Basic Education; Health and Nutrition; WASH, Child Protection; Planning and Management for Results and Evidence, Policy and Social Protection. Programme Effectiveness which encompasses cross-sectoral supportive strategy and mechanism comprises, External Relations and Advocacy (ERA); Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBC), and Innovation. UNICEF Sierra Leone's Advocacy Strategy is being modelled around UNICEF's Global Advocacy Priority 2022 - 2025. These advocacy priorities are Child Survival, Nutrition, Immunization and Primary Health Care; Learning Crisis; Mental Health and Water and Climate Change.
Communication tools and products—including Human Interest Stories—are key in illuminating issues, acknowledging support provided by partners to address these issues, and further galvanizing actions for positive change toward them.
Therefore, a writer/ photographer is required to produce the required stories and photos.
The following are the specifications of the deliverables:
- Twenty (20) Human-Interest stories with five (5) accompanying photos each
UNICEF will provide the relevant programme briefing and guidance to the writer/photographer right through the production process. The writer/photographer will work closely with programme teams to establish the various storylines, identify the ideal locations and
The writer/photographer will provide all the relevant working tools, including computers and software, needed for his/her work and produce the designs in conformity with the UNICEF brand guidelines.
It must be noted that the stories and photos produced will remain the exclusive property of UNICEF and must not be used for any other activity by any other persons or institutions without the expressed permission of UNICEF Sierra Leone.
Please see attached ToR for detailed information. TOR_HIS production.pdf
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have...
- A Bachelor degree in Linguistics/Mass Communication/Multi-Media Production/Journalism eUCRPky C0zkIc
- Knowledge and skills in creative writing and photography
- Knowledge in working with the UN and other development partners and producing similar products over a five-year period
- Knowledge of Child Rights and in working with children are added advantages
- Fluency in English is required.
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 here to serve the world's most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.
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. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.
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.
Advertised: Jul 30 2024 Greenwich Standard Time
Application close: Aug 04 2024 Greenwich Standard Time
