Digital Media Consultant

The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives and expanding opportunities across Asia and the Pacific. Informed by decades of experience and deep local expertise, our work across the region is focused on good governance, women’s empowerment and gender equality, inclusive economic growth, environment and climate action, and regional and international relations.

If you share the same vision and commitment, we invite you to express interest in our open tender under The Foundation’s I-ACT Project. More information about this role is provided below.

DIGITAL MEDIA CONSULTANT – I-ACT PROJECT

TERMS OF REFERENCE

TITLE: Digital Media Consultant

UNIT: Philippine Office

REPORTS TO: I-ACT Chief of Party

SUPERVISES: N/A

ABOUT I-ACT PROJECT

The Initiative for Advancing Community Transformation (“I-ACT”) project is a five-year project implemented by The Asia Foundation (“the Foundation”) with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). I-ACT aims to promote positive changes in public attitudes towards human rights and the rule of law by pioneering and mainstreaming Social and Behavior Change (SBC) as an approach to promote human rights. To achieve scale and sustain impact, the Project will support human rights coalitions, organizations, and communication workers in learning, adopting, and applying SBC in their advocacy strategies and approaches. I-ACT’s flagship program convening human rights communications workers, COMMUNE, also provides a platform for mutual support and cross-learning.

With this, I-ACT is looking for a digital media officer who will provide support in content creation and community management for its various platforms.

TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT

The consultancy will be on a part-time and on-call basis.

Period of engagement: March 1 to June 19, 2024

Internal arrangement: Extensive interaction with members of the I-ACT Chief of Party and the Project’s Communications Officer

External arrangement: Extensive with the Foundation’s partners, other Communications contractors and service providers

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Contractor will provide professional services related digital content creation and community management for the I-ACT Project on an on-call basis. They will be tasked to:

1. Join conceptualization meetings and work with the assigned program staff as needed;
2. Create simple engaging content to share hope-based messages in a simple way, including writing social media posts, creating graphics, curating images, and editing simple videos;
3. Encourage community members to create short and simple posts about their work and to interact with one another;
4. Write posts and promote current events and activities of partners across various platforms; and
5. Track and report on metrics and recommend new strategies to increase engagement.
6. ELIGIBILITY

• Possesses track record of developing hope-based messaging and content for development organizations;
• Ability to edit videos (preferred);
• Ability to produce outputs under a fast-paced timeline and deliver good quality work in a timely manner; and
• Experience working with the Foundation (preferred).