Long - Term Agreement (LTA), Individual Consultancy as Professional Photographers

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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,

UNICEF Laos is seeking a Long - Term Agreement (LTA), Individual Consultancy as Professional Photographers for photographing high profile campaigns, advocacy priorities and results from UNICEF’s projects and partnerships across the country. The duration of this assignment will be a period of 36 months, starting as soon as possible.

Sum****mary of key functions/accountabilities:

Photograph children with a specific focus on UNICEF programmes, keeping in mind culture, gender and other diverse sensitivities as per UNICEF guidelines, including child protection. The photographs should be usable for diverse audiences and have universal appeal. However, photos may also be specific as per the brief to be provided.

• Attend briefings on specific projects and issues to be covered based on national and state priorities.
• Demonstrate a client-oriented approach, tact and ability to work with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Demonstrate high creativity asset output.
• Ensure effective and efficient provision of services, full confidentiality in all aspects of assignment, management of information flow and follow-up on deadlines and commitments made.
• Ensure dignity of subjects, particularly in the context of people living or affected by HIV and children.
• Write succinct, edited and well written captions for all high-quality images.
• Captions to be embedded in the images and shared separately as a word document as well.
• Include quotes where required on photo stories.
• Ensure consent forms are signed by children and / or guardians as per UNICEF guidelines.
• Ensure digitalization of consent forms as part of the final deliverables.

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

• Seven years’ experience (nationally and/or internationally) delivering on large campaigns with Government, INGO’s and other partners
• Contributes extensively to national and international media outlets (for e.g.: National Geographic; Getty images; Granta; BBC; Reuters; Nikon etc.);
• Experience in photography for development related work is preferred;
• Experience in photographing children is preferred.
• Language: English and preference for those with Lao language skills.

Assessment Criteria:

The selection of consultants for the LTA will be based on technical evaluation and financial offers in the ratio of 80:20. The criteria for technical evaluation are detailed in the attached TOR: TOR FOR LTA- Photographer_VA.pdf

Submission of applications:

Applications to be submitted through the online portal should contain four separate attachments:

i A Cover letter explaining the motivation for applying and explaining how the qualifications and skillset of the candidate (to be uploaded online)

ii Curriculum Vitae (CV) (to be uploaded online)

iii Portfolio with at least three work samples (to be uploaded online)

iv A financial proposal indicating professional fee as per the above template. Please do not forget to specify your name in the file while saving. (To be uploaded under other supporting documents).

Important Note: Please do not indicate financials anywhere else in the online application form, please mark "n/a or 00", under the fee related questions in the online application form.

Without all the above 4 documents your application will be considered incomplete and invalid and will not be considered further.

• Any attempt to unduly influence UNICEF’s selection process will lead to automatic disqualification of the applicant.
• Joint applications of two or more individuals are not accepted.
• Please note that UNICEF does not charge any fee during any stage of the process.
• Female candidates meeting the requirements are strongly encouraged to apply.
• UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion and encourages qualified candidates from all backgrounds including persons living with disabilities to apply.

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 committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

“This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is either: a role with direct contact with children, works directly with child, is a safeguarding response role or has been assessed as an elevated risk role for child safeguarding. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) applies”.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.