Long – Term Agreement (LTA), Individual Consultancy for Engagement of Professional filmmakers

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, all over the place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each baby,

UNICEF Laos is searching for a Lengthy – Time period Settlement (LTA), Particular person Consultancy for Engagement of Skilled filmmakers to supply quick movies, capturing tales of change via the story of protagonist(s) from the sphere and share with stakeholders at nationwide and world stage and to make use of as an advocacy device. The period of this task shall be a interval of 36 months, beginning as quickly as doable.

Summary of key features/accountabilities:

• Create movies, with size various from 30 seconds to five minutes, based mostly on advocacy priorities and deliberate supply (i..e internet movies, reels, occasion movies, human curiosity and so on.)
• Suggest visible construction and seize change narratives via protagonist(s) tales.
• Attend pre-production briefings, analysis, and planning conferences.
•  Conduct area filming in numerous places, together with interviews with stakeholders.
•  Write and procure approval for English and Lao scripts.
•  Shoot broadcast high quality footage.
•  Adhere to UNICEF branding pointers.
• Recurrently replace undertaking coordinator on progress and challenges.
• Present skilled English or different language voice overs.
•  Advise on and procure rights to music as wanted.
•  Gather related sound results.
•  Assessment current movies or supplies on the subject.
•  Edit the movie into an attractive, high-quality product, together with graphics and subtitles as wanted.
•  Current the movie to UNICEF and incorporate suggestions.
•  Submit last merchandise in English and/or Lao.
•  Coordinate with UNICEF Programme Officers on movie necessities.
• Could contain journey to distant areas and work throughout weekends.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…

• Bachelor’s diploma in Arts, Sciences, Commerce, or a technical diploma in filmmaking, videography, enhancing, or script writing.
• 5 years of expertise in producing high-quality movies demonstrating creativity, storytelling, script writing, and capturing methods that align with worldwide requirements.
• Sturdy background in ideation, conceptualization, script writing, and data of newest movie enhancing software program.
•  Confirmed expertise in creating movies for the social growth sector.
• Proficiency with the newest expertise in filmmaking and multimedia manufacturing.
• Data of extra nationwide languages is a plus.
• Expertise in creating movies about, with, and for kids, together with interviewing and filming them. Proficiency in designing for digital platforms.
• Sturdy sensible background in graphic design, together with experience in software program reminiscent of Adobe Design Premium-package and internet design.
• Expertise in delivering high-profile filmmaking tasks each nationally and internationally and contributing to nationwide and worldwide media shops.
• Expertise in overlaying media/press occasions and capturing B-roll footage is useful.
• Capability to supply high-quality written content material for various platforms and in numerous kinds.
• Capability to conceptualize full-content packages for numerous platforms, successfully telling a narrative and making a design idea that hyperlinks the content material.
• Prior expertise within the growth sector is advantageous. Will need to have business data, together with an in-depth understanding of Lao and regional market tendencies (social media, digital, culturally acceptable tendencies), and familiarity with UNICEF’s mannequin and fundraising/lead technology methods.
• Capability to accomplice with UNICEF to work in the direction of widespread objectives, enhancing model worth and belief via inventive options.

Evaluation Standards:

The choice of consultants for the LTA shall be based mostly on technical analysis and monetary affords within the ratio of 80:20. The standards for technical analysis are detailed within the connected TOR.:  TOR for LTA – Filmmakers-VA.pdf

Submission of purposes:

Functions to be submitted via the net portal ought to include 4 separate attachments:

i A Cowl letter explaining the motivation for making use of and explaining how the {qualifications} and skillset of the candidate (to be uploaded on-line)

 ii Curriculum Vitae (CV) (to be uploaded on-line)

iii Portfolio with no less than three work samples (to be uploaded on-line)

iv A monetary proposal indicating skilled charge as per the above template. Please don’t forget to specify your identify within the file whereas saving. (To be uploaded below different supporting paperwork).

Essential Word: Please don’t point out financials anyplace else within the on-line software kind, please mark “n/a or 00”, below the charge associated questions within the on-line software kind.

With out all of the above 4 paperwork your software shall be thought of incomplete and invalid and won’t be thought of additional.

• Any try and unduly affect UNICEF’s choice course of will result in automated disqualification of the applicant.
• Joint purposes of  two or extra people aren’t accepted.

For each Little one, you display… 

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

 To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

 UNICEF is dedicated to range and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, spiritual and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals dwelling with disabilities, to use to turn into part of the group.

“This place has been assessed as an elevated danger position for Little one Safeguarding functions as it’s both: a job with direct contact with youngsters, works instantly with baby, is a safeguarding response position or has been assessed as an elevated danger position for baby safeguarding. Extra vetting and evaluation for elevated danger roles in baby safeguarding (probably together with extra prison background checks) applies”.

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.