International Consultant – Photographer and Videographer (Retainer) ( multiple positions)

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.

Building on twenty years of experience in the area of governance and women, peace and security (WPS), including conflict prevention and resolution, peacebuilding, security sector reform and access to justice, UN Women Asia Pacific Regional Office implements four regional programmes focusing on Enhancing women’s role in law enforcement and border security to prevent trafficking in persons, transnational organized crime and terrorism in ASEAN countries; Promoting women’s peace and security in the digital world; Promoting social cohesion through women’s empowerment and, Enhancing women’s access to justice. ROAP also works closely and support different UN Women Programme Presences and Offices in the region to advance the women peace and security agenda and governance issues in the region.

In this context, UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific will hire a photographer/videographer for the governance peace and security projects.

Description of Responsibilities/ Scope of Work

The consultant will work under the supervision of the Programme Specialist for Governance Peace and Security of UN Women Asia Pacific Regional Office. He/She will collaboratively work with the hiring unit and Communications focal points on the development of a photo and video bank, regional Flickr account and the UN Women Digital Assets Management System (DAMS) including the execution of the concept through production. The consultant will work with UN Women, when required, to visit project sites and provide professional photographic/videographic coverage in digital format. The consultant will work closely with UN Women to perform the following tasks.

• To provide digital colour photographic and video coverage for promotional materials, website, publications, social media, and campaigns during the contract period
• To provide photos and videos with high resolution and best quality 
• To provide high-resolution digital image and video files and transmit them to the UN Women account in compressed format.
• To support the organization of photo exhibitions or other cultural events.
• To be responsible for video lighting, at times downloading footage as well as the audit and images captured by the video.
• To perform editing and logging of footage linked to UN Women work.
• To perform video post-processing to edit videos to produce professional products.

Final Products and Deliverables 

The consultant must deliver photos and videos of key events/field missions as assigned by UN Women as soon as the event is finished. The photos and videos must be catalogued in the platforms given access by UN Women. The photos and videos must be maintained in archiving systems. The consultant must be made available for further development of multimedia projects.

Specific Requirements for Photo Submission:

• Colour;
• Flash card or through links for downloads;
• Deliver photographs at the highest resolution as jpeg or raw files (minimum requirements: 300 dpi at 8 x 10 inches);
• Deliver photographs at the highest resolution as jpeg or raw flies (minimum requirements: 300 dpi at 8 x 10 inches);
• An optimized edit of 15-20 of the best photos from each assignment, with individual captions embedded in the metadata. In addition, the full take of all the original images should be delivered following the assignment;
• The final submission must include the entire take of all photographs from the assignment and a selection of approximately the 50 best photographs edited and optimized in high resolution with metadata in all of the photographs, as required below;
• All digital photographs must contain complete caption information in “file info” and a separate word format captions list. Caption information should consist of date, place, subject names and age, and a brief description of the situation photographed;
• The sets of digital images will be delivered via links for downloads together with caption Information and one set will be emailed via drop box or other online delivery services;
• Provide caption information to be incorporated into the metadata of the photograph flies via Adobe Bridge, Adobe Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, or other photo application/software, including full names of participants and businesses/projects; city/town/village/district; country; date; relevant to UN Women’s work;
• Provide the Consultant’s name and details using the following credit