Photography and Videography Consultant

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Title: Photography and Videography Consultant
Location: Kilis, Reyhanli, Istanbul, Adana, Mersin, Ankara, Malatya – Türkiye (depending on arrangements)
Reporting to: Grants and Partnership Manager

ABOUT Relief International.

Relief International (RI) is a leading nonprofit 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, Turkey, 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.

About our Country Program/ Regional Programs:

Middle East Region

RI in the Middle East has programs in six countries – Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Yemen, with a focus on the 4 main RI sectors: Health, WASH, Education and Economic Opportunity.

Relief International currently employs 3900 staff (direct and indirect) in the region and has a range of emergency response and development programs valued at 70 million USD on an annual basis.

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 donors’ websites and social media platforms, and will be used to promote RI’s program for the wider public and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

The consultant will be required to do the following:

• Visit three social cohesion workshops in Adana, Mersin and Istanbul provinces and interact with the RI and implementing partner staff, and beneficiaries to produce

  • 60 high-quality photos (20 for each event) through close coordination with RI.
  • 3 videos at each event (around 45 seconds per each) showcasing:
    • Workshop activities including interviews with the participants to show the impact of the intervention and interviews with RI and partners’ staff can be incorporated into the videos by the consultant, and RI can support in facilitating this.
    • Containing visibility for donor, RI, and the partner center.
    • The videos should include English, Turkish and Arabic subtitles.

• Attend RI’s Annual Disability and Inclusion Summit in Ankara and interact with the speakers and the audience to produce a 1 min video through close coordination with RI.

• 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.

  Output/Deliverables:

  • Capture 40 high-resolution images (20 per center) of RI’s activities in Turkey:
    • That are to be suitable for storyboarding,
    • Reflective of the provided services,
    • Containing visibility for donor, RI, and the partner center.
  • Visit project sites in Malatya and interact with the implementing partners and beneficiaries to develop the content and the work/production plan with close coordination with RI team.Capture 20 high resolution images reflecting the project services and impact
  • Produce a short video around 45 sec- 1 min in the RI’s and partner’s emergency response theme.
  • Produce 2 storyboard videos (same content in long (3,5-4 min) and short (45 sec) versions):
    • The shooting will focus on one project beneficiary selected by RI,
    • The shooting will include the 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

For all the above-mentioned activities, the consultant is required to:

• 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
• Minimum 120 high-resolution photographs highlighting RI’s work (On average 20 photographs from each event and/or center);
  • 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).
• 6 short videos and 1 long video in total, one from each event showcasing the workshop and summit activities, participants’ observations, and post-edited to include voice over, information texts and subtitles in English, Arabic, and Turkish.
• 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.
• 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 an online cloud storage site (Google Drive, Box…) with a sharable link.

Project locations:

• Photographer/videographer will visit and produce materials in Adana, Mersin, Ankara, Istanbul, Kilis, Malatya and Hatay provinces.

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 financial proposal.
• 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 demonstrated experience in capturing work in humanitarian and transitional settings.
• Strong organizational skills and humanitarian contexts knowledge with the ability to focus on details and quality.
• Demonstrated experience in photography and videography with an extensive and impactful portfolio.
• Knowledge of photo and video editing.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English; Arabic and Turkish are 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 to feedback in a timely manner, and maintain a positive and professional attitude towards the work.

The selected candidate will be responsible for coordinating with centers’ focal points and organizing his/her own work plan to meet 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

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On the legal bases referred to in Article 5/f processing of data is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the data controller, provided that this processing shall not violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject.” RI Türkiye shall process your name-surname, e-mail address, mobile phone, references, and CV/resume personal data for carrying out selection and placement processes for job candidates, and transfer them to third party suppliers through your applications to published RI Türkiye job ads via employment agencies or sending your CV/resume to RI Türkiye directly by wholly or partly automatic means. Additionally, RI Türkiye is going to get in touch with your references assuming that all obligatory information is given, and consents are obtained by your side about sharing their personal data with RI Türkiye.

You may submit your requests to RI Türkiye under Article 11 of the Law concerning the rights of the data subject in accordance with the Communique on the Procedures and Principles of Application to a Data Controller.

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