Photography and Videography Consultant

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Title: Photography and Videography Consultant

Department: Grants

Location: Kilis, Hatay – Türkiye

Reporting to: Grants and Partnership Coordinator

ABOUT Relief International.

Relief International (RI) is a leading non-profit organization working in 16 countries to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises and chronic poverty.

Relief International combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact. Our signature approach — which we call the RI Way—emphasizes local participation, an integration of services, strategic partnerships and a focus on civic skills. In this way, we empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.

RI includes the four corporate members of the RI Alliance: RI-US, RI-UK, MRCA/RI-France and RI-Europe. Under our alliance agreement, we operate as a single, shared management structure.

RI is active in 16 countries around the world, including some of the most fragile: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Türkiye, and Yemen. Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.

RI employs 7,000+ staff and auxiliary workers

97% of staff are local nationals

We only have some 90 ex-pat staff out of 7,000+

RI spent $150 million in 2019 on our programs

Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities.

RI invests in four broad program sectors: Economic Opportunity, Education, Health, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. We design our programs to incorporate The RI Way: local participation, integrated programming, the development of civic skills, and complementary partnerships including with local NGOs, governments, and the private sector. RI supports solutions that reinforce and improve upon existing in-country systems. Where such systems do not exist or are chronically underperforming, RI’s crisis response lays the foundation for long-term, sustainable change.

Position Summary.

The consultant will be responsible for documenting RI’s project activities and producing a storyboard, video and photos aiming to show the impact of RI’s work on people’s lives. The products will be disseminated through various online channels including RI’s partners’ and donor’s websites and social media platforms, will be used to promote RI’s program for the general public and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities and Duties.

The consultant will be required to do the following:

• Visit project sites in Hatay and Kilis provinces and interact with the implementing partners and beneficiaries to develop the content and the work/production plan with close coordination with RI team
• Capture high resolution images of RI’s activities in Turkey:
  • That are to be suitable for storyboarding,
  • Reflective for the provided services
  • Containing visibility for donor, RI and the partner center
• Produce 2 storyboard videos (same content in long (3,5-4 min) and short (90 sec) versions):
  • The shooting will focus on one project beneficiary selected by RI,
  • The shooting will include daily life of the person before/during/after physical rehabilitation and other services. In other words, the shooting will be done in places where he/she spends his/her daily life as well as the project center. The whole process will possibly cover 3 to 4 months regarding the length of treatment. In this period of time, the consultant needs to plan for multiple shootings to show each phase of the progress of the patient’s condition and the impact of the treatment on the patient’s mobility, daily activities, and quality of life.
  • The videos will include an interview with the beneficiary, and if needed, to show the impact of the intervention, interviews with RI and partners staff can be incorporated into the videos by the consultant, and RI can support in facilitating this.
  • The videos will have to include English, Turkish and Arabic subtitles
• Obtain consent from individuals featured in the photographs and videos using RI’s consent form;
• Ensure RI and donor’s visibility rules
• Carry out the activities in accordance with humanitarian principles and RI procedures in coordination with RI focal point

Output/Deliverables:

• Minimum 60 high-resolution photographs highlighting RI’s work in physical rehabilitation centers (3 facilities and on average 20 photographs for each);
  • The photos must be accompanied by brief captions regarding the subject of the picture and an explanatory sheet with background information (date, country, city/region, project, name and role of the person on the photo, activity if applicable).
• 2 story-board videos with below specifications:
  • showcasing treatment process and project activities,
  • focus on one project beneficiary selected by RI, including daily life of the person before/during/after physical rehabilitation and other services.
  • multiple shootings to show the progress of the patient’s conditions and the impact of treatment on the patient’s mobility, daily activities, and quality of life.
  • post-edited to include voice over, information texts and subtitles in English Arabic, and Turkish.
  • including an interview with the beneficiary, and if needed interviews with RI and partners
• RI consent forms for each person photographed / featured in the photos and videos (including RI and centers’ staff);
• All deliverables must be uploaded in high resolution on online cloud storage site (Google drive, Box…) with a sharable link.

Remuneration

• Payment will be released upon RI’s acceptance of the deliverables.
• No accommodation, interpretation, transportation (including transportation to and from project locations within and between cities), per diem or any other kind of allowances are covered; these should be included in the Consultant’s rate.
• The consultant’s payment shall be based on the financial proposal developed for this consultancy.

Safeguarding

• Uphold and promote RI’s commitment to ensuring the safeguarding and safety of the vulnerable communities we serve.
• Consistent with RI’s safeguarding and protection policies, ensure your job related activity and practice is compliant with safeguarding standards.

Experience and skills required for the role.

• Photographer/videographer with a demonstrated experience in capturing work in humanitarian and transitional settings;
• Strong organizational skills with ability to focus on details and quality;
• Demonstrated experience in photography and videography with an extensive portfolio;
• Knowledge of photo and video editing;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Excellent written and spoken English; Arabic is an advantage;
• An interest in humanitarian, development, and related issues;
• Ownership or possession of a high-resolution digital camera and any other necessary equipment to produce high-quality deliverables is a must.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure, respond feedback in timely manner, keep positive and professional manner

The selected candidate will be responsible for coordinating with center focal points, organize his/her own work plan to meet with the deadlines set by RI.

RI Values.

Guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, as well as “Do No Harm,” Relief International Values:

We value:

• Integrity
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Inclusivity
• Sustainability

Relief International is committed to protecting our staff and the communities we work with from abuse and harm including sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and sexual harassment.

All staff are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct.

Recruitment to all roles in Relief International include a criminal records self-declaration, references and other pre-employment checks, which may include police and qualifications checks.