Background:
UN Women Country Office in Georgia supports the government and civil society partners in fostering women's empowerment and gender equality. UN Women focuses its activities on one overarching goal: to support the implementation at the national level of existing international commitments to advance gender equality. In support of this goal, UN Women in Georgia implements projects/programmes in the following thematic areas: Women, Peace and Security; Elimination of Violence against Women; Social and Economic Empowerment of Women; Mainstreaming gender into national planning and budgeting processes.
UN Women within its projects/programmes plan to produce multimedia products such as photo documentaries depicting UN Woman’s intervention with beneficiaries (story-telling photography) and photo reports for the events (event photography) to promote UN Women’s work in Georgia and enhance public discussion and awareness on the issues related to Gender Based Violence and Domestic Violence, support the realization of gender equality and the reduction of feminized poverty through addressing women’s social, economic, and political needs, with particular focus on IDPs, and conflict-affected and national minority women’s groups.
The photo reports/ documentaries are foreseen to cover all project/programme events and target regions – Kakheti, Shida Qartli, Qvemo Qarti, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Imereti, Samegrelo – Zemo Svaneti (Georgia). UN Women communication strategy anticipates use of all kinds of media products and channels including for better outreach and communication with its primary and secondary target groups. Primary target group: women and girls; secondary target group: local governments and public in general. UN Women communications strategy foresees production of photo and multimedia products for placing and disseminating through social media and local and global corporate websites. Thus UN Women plans to contract photographer for the following tasks:
Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work
The National consultant will be responsible to:
- To capture high resolution images of UN Women’s various programme/project activities in various parts of the country.
- Caption each photograph with specific details such as the location taken, name of the person (for portraits), activity and any other relevant information.
- Provide UN Women with at least 1000 high quality photographs from all projects through Wetransfer or Google sharing platforms. The copy right for all these photographs remains with UN Women.
- To give creative input to the overall photo shooting.
- To provide the technical equipment needed for the shooting and editing including cameras, etc.
- To provide adequate lightening systems including camera light as well as any additional light equipment deemed necessary.
- Ownership or possession of a high-resolution state of the art digital camera/equipment is a MUST.
Deliverables:
- A collection of photographs depicting UN Women’s work across its core programme areas in TIF, PSD (high resolution for printing) as well as in jpg (low resolution for website use).
- A collection of sample photo essays of project beneficiaries of UN Women projects across all its core programme areas.
- Edited and captioned pictures to illustrate uploaded stories.
Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel
This is a home-based consultancy.
As part of this assignment, there may be a maximum of 15 trips to regions of Georgia.
Note: the work will be reimbursed based on the submitted finalized deliverable(s) as requested, from the above list of deliverables.
The payment will be done based on the hours worked.
Competencies :
Core Values:
- Integrity;
- Professionalism;
- Respect for Diversity.
Core Competencies:
- Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
- Accountability;
- Creative Problem Solving;
- Effective Communication;
- Inclusive Collaboration;
- Stakeholder Engagement;
- Leading by Example.
Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework:
Functional Competencies:
- Ability to take high quality photographs;
- Creative and artistic approach towards photo shooting of event/story telling
- Availability and willingness to travel in-country
- Ability to work in team
Required Qualifications:
Education and Certification:
- Advanced university degree in humanities, social sciences, or another relevant field; or
- A bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in humanities, social sciences, or a related field, combined with an additional two (2) years of relevant professional experience, may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
- A minimum of five (5) years of professional experience as a photographer for candidates with a master’s degree, or seven (7) years for candidates with a bachelor’s degree.
- Demonstrated experience in the management and implementation of photography projects.
- Demonstrated experience in producing photo reports and documentary photography focused on women’s rights and gender equality issues in Georgia.
Experience:
- A minimum of five (5) years of professional experience as a photographer for candidates with a master’s degree, or seven (7) years for candidates with a bachelor’s degree.
- Demonstrated experience in the management and implementation of photography projects.
- Demonstrated experience in producing photo reports and documentary photography focused on women’s rights and gender equality issues in Georgia.
Languages:
- Georgian (fluent)
- Knowledge of English would be considered an asset.
Statements:
In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.
Diversity and inclusion:
At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.
If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.
All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.)
Note: Applicants must ensure that all sections of the application form, including the sections on education and employment history, are completed. If all sections are not completed the application may be disqualified from the recruitment and selection process.
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