Multimedia Journalistic Services

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UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity and sexual orientation, as well as persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. UNICEF’s office is accessible to a certain extent, and employees are entitled to reasonable accommodations that are needed for ensuring equitable working conditions.

UNICEF provides support to the Republic of Serbia’s reform processes to ensure that child rights are realized for every child in the areas of early childhood development, education, child protection, youth and adolescent development. Specifically, we are providing evidence, modelling solutions that can be brought to scale, and engaging in continuous policy dialogue to make sure that no child is left behind. At the same time, our task is also to be the independent voice of children – to point out the gaps, breaches and violations of child rights.

UNICEF Serbia is seeking consultants to provide multimedia journalistic services in Serbian and English languages for documenting UNICEF Serbia Office programmatic activities and impact on children, adolescents, youth and families.

Under the direct supervision of the UNICEF Serbia Communication Officer, the consultants will produce human interest and/or feature stories in text and video formats in English and Serbian languages. The final products will be in line with UNICEF’s visibility and brand guidelines.

Work Assignment Overview:

Task 1: Develop video source material as per request in Serbian and English languages on a quick turnaround, under tight and variable deadlines:

• Shoot video footage to fulfil each specific assignment;
• Conduct recorded interviews;
• Write shot list, scripts and interview transcripts;
• Edit video materials to produce final videos approximately 3 minutes in length in TV broadcast and social media formats that include names of people involved and ages of children;
• Subtitle and/or dub the videos.

Deliverables:

• Video clips cc. 3 minutes in length in TV broadcast and social media formats that include names of people involved and ages of children, with subtitles or dubbing when needed.

Task 2: Write news notes, feature and/or human-interest stories to accompany videos in both Serbian and English languages. The stories should:

• Contain examples that illustrate key ideas;
• Contain quotes from the people involved, people who are knowledgeable in or connected with a particular issue, and UNICEF staff;
• Include names of people involved and ages of children;
• Include photographs (provided by photographers hired by UNICEF) and accompanying captions.

Deliverables:

• News notes, feature and/or human-interest stories, 300-700 words in length, in both Serbian and English languages.

Copyright and production files

• All materials developed by the consultant will become UNICEF copyrighted materials. This implies that the consultant will refrain from using any copyrighted materials in the products, unless approved by UNICEF project managers.
• UNICEF requires, for all produced videos, that all source files of projects be delivered, and not just the final output.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• Professional journalists with sensitivity for working with children and adolescents
• Journalism background and other media experience showing ability to create content for specific audience in video and text formats
• Demonstrated technical competence
• Experienced in developing multimedia source content
• Ability to find appropriate stories to cover in the field
• Excellent command of Serbian and English languages, both written and oral
• Excellent writing skills
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Work experience covering UNICEF’s work, and familiarity with development issues is an asset

How to apply:

The application must include a financial proposal in RSD as a separate document, providing the fees for the following service types:

1. A multimedia package consisting of:

• a video approximately 3 minutes in length in TV broadcast and social media formats that includes names of people involved and ages of children, with subtitles or dubbing when needed, and
• a text story in both Serbian and English languages;

2. A video, approximately 3 minutes in length, in TV broadcast and social media formats that includes names of people involved and ages of children, with subtitles or dubbing when needed in both Serbian and English languages;
3. A text story in both Serbian and English languages;
4. Daily allowance for an overnight stay outside Belgrade (including accommodation).

Please note that the transportation costs will be paid per kilometer as per the official UN rate.

Important notes:

Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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.

For every child, you must demonstrate UNICEF's core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability.

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.