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UNICEF Ukraine

How can you make a difference?

Background:

The escalation of the war in Ukraine poses an immediate threat to the lives and well-being of the country’s children. Hundreds of thousands of children and their families have been internally displaced and forced to flee the country in search of safety – with the majority being women and children.

In response, UNICEF has mobilized organization-wide support. However, the deteriorating situation and complex operating environment require strengthened capacity and sustained efforts to further expand our presence and work in those parts of the country that can be safely accessed. This includes strengthening our cluster and overall humanitarian leadership, as well as continuing to scale up our humanitarian action, with a priority focus on child protection, health, WASH, education, cash interventions, and social protection efforts.

As emergency response expands, UNICEF Ukraine has an increased need for various multimedia assets, including high-quality photos and videos, human interest stories, social media content, and multimedia documents in both English and Ukrainian. Most of these assets are also produced and provided by implementing partners across Ukraine.

Compelling and high-quality content on the situation of children and UNICEF’s response is an integral part of UNICEF’s advocacy and communication efforts in the emergency, as well as its brand. Therefore, the organization must ensure that its multimedia products on the situation of children and UNICEF’s response are professionally crafted and resonate with targeted audiences. Additionally, the organization must ensure that all multimedia materials shared externally on UNICEF’s local, regional, and global channels adhere to UNICEF’s global style guidelines and requirements for multimedia products, including ethical reporting and child safeguarding.

Purpose of assignment:

To produce high-quality communication and information products regarding the situation of children affected by war and the response provided, UNICEF Ukraine requires the services of a consultant to coordinate and manage content produced by at least 72 implementing partners across the country (the number of IPs continues to grow).

The overall objective of this assignment is to assist and facilitate the office in arranging the work of the communication component from implementing partners, including gathering photographs, videos, texts, and HIS from partners and guiding them in accordance with UNICEF comms guidelines. The consultant will provide support with planning the content production and gathering process to accommodate the needs of various units and sections within the UNICEF Ukraine office. They will be responsible for communicating with each of the 72 implementing partners and managing the full cycle of content production from their side, including identifying relevant cases, developing detailed briefs for specific assignments, providing guidance on the products needed, curating content gathering, and packaging for relevant UNICEF platforms, including photo essays, human interest stories, video stories, and other social media assets as required.

The assignment involves curating multimedia content production in Ukrainian and English. All multimedia assets developed need to follow UNICEF’s global style, editing, and branding guidelines, which will be provided when work is assigned, as well as specific photo and video requirements. The consultant will be working under the supervision of a Communication Officer in close cooperation with Communication and Digital teams.

Work assignment overview:

Please provide an all-inclusive financial proposal to carry out the deliverables listed above.

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

Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the following fields is required: S communications, advertising, public relations,  journalism or other relevant fields.

Professional experience: 

• At least three years of relevant and progressive experience in communications and managing content work.
• Experience in managing production of communication products on issues of international development, human rights, emergency context is desirable.
• Previous working experience with the United Nations and/or an international organization is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of the Ukrainian emergency context and media landscape is an asset.

Languages: 

• English: Advanced [C1];
• Ukrainian: Proficient/Native [C2].

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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

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Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

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.