Overview
Support the creation of high-quality, compelling content to strengthen UNICEF’s brand and drive income, influence, and supporter engagement. This includes emergency response content, impact stories, and materials for high-value donor engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Research issues and stories to be documented, including pre-interviews
- Write briefs, develop story lines and angles to be explored
- Brief and work closely with crews and content creators in the field, coordinating during shoots
- Draft scripts ensuring all details are fact-checked
- Ensure all content produced is in line with UNICEF’s brand, ethical and technical specifications
- Review, edit, and consolidate material, ensuring clarity and continuity
- Package assets for distribution and ensure all versions are available with accompanying shotlists, metadata
- Work in close coordination with HQ and Country Office counterparts to help capture relevant stories
- Produce repurposed assets such as explainers, photo essays
- Ensure all paperwork including shotlists, scripts are provided according to UNICEF’s standards
- Ensure implementation of UNICEF workflows and production toolkits
- Manage approvals, rounds of changes for assets
- Production of high quality multimedia assets
- Research and take part in production planning
- Shoot video material on location or at events
- Adhere to UNICEF’s production guidelines
- Package raw materials into selections for editors and UNICEF teams
- Upload content and send to producers and/or editors
- Translate raw material of some content where appropriate
- Take capture photography in certain instances
- Post-Production of high-quality multimedia assets, including human interest stories, narrative content, explainers, montage pieces, thank you videos, impact stories for emergencies, high-value needs, and private sector engagement activities
- Production support for live or prerecorded online/ virtual events and experiences
- Contribute to the briefing of in-country videographers, creatives and project team brainstorms
- Creating and delivering basic motion graphics for various media
- Review, edit, and consolidate the material, ensuring clarity and continuity
- Check spelling, country, and city names and acronyms and other abbreviations, style consistency and Brand Toolkit
- Be available for several rounds of editing
- Deliver on tight, short timelines as needed
- Production of b-roll suitable to broadcast media and with detailed shotlists
- Edited materials suitable and tailored to trends specific to individual platforms
Required Experience
- A minimum of five years of relevant professional experience in multimedia and communications is required.
- Proven experience in all facets of multimedia production is required.
- Experience in working with professional photographers, videographers, writers is an asset.
- Experience in working with creative teams/ agencies and sound understanding of the creative process is an asset.
- Experience in scriptwriting is an asset.
- Experience producing video content for news broadcasters or other high-pressure environments is desirable.
- Experience in project management is an asset.
- Experience working in a developing and emergency environment is an asset.
Qualifications
- A first level university degree in one of the following fields is required: Marketing, Communications, the Humanities, journalism, or another relevant technical field.
- Any other additional training in a related field is an asset.
