Overview
To produce and submit multimedia content from the field in Portuguese to enhance UN News Language Units' offerings with local voices and field-based storytelling on UN activities, focusing on SDGs, human rights, and climate issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Liaise with Unit Chief to plan and produce quality multimedia content (text, audio, video) on various issues, providing field-based narratives related to UN priorities.
- Pitch story ideas and agree with commissioning office on timelines and content, using storytelling approaches for news and social media platforms.
- Research content from verifiable sources, write stories and scripts, edit, and create multimedia stories for UN News language platforms, featuring local angles.
- Coordinate technical arrangements and organize interviews in countries of assignment.
- Follow UN News guidelines, ensuring editorial clarity, political judgment, and due diligence regarding permissions and copyright.
Required Experience
- Well-rounded experience in broadcast/digital journalism and multimedia production in the assigned languages.
- A minimum of two (2) years experience in broadcast/digital journalism in the assigned language(s) is required.
- Experience in full range of production of multimedia features is required.
- Experience in video production, filming and editing video material, is desirable.
- Experience in recording and editing audio material is desirable.
- Experience in digital content publishing, and incorporation of photos and graphics is desirable.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent is required.
- A first-level university degree in communication, journalism, video production or related field is desirable.
