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Advert- Individual Consultant (Maldivian national) long term agreement to provide photography and videography services for UNICEF Maldives’ programme areas and events.

For every child, the right to opportunities.

UNICEF Maldives Country Office is strengthening its communication, advocacy, and resource mobilization efforts to advance the rights and wellbeing of children, in line with UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029 and our new programmatic priorities. At the country level, this includes a sharper focus on priority issues affecting children and adolescents, particularly the emerging “adolescent challenge” in the Maldives, and the need to sustain and accelerate progress for children in a rapidly changing social, economic, and digital landscape.

UNICEF’s communication, advocacy and partnerships work relies on high-quality, emotionally compelling multimedia content to elevate children’s voices, influence public discourse, mobilize resources and drive action. Increasingly, the focus is not only on producing content, but on producing the right content shaped by audience insights, and designed for strategic, multi-platform dissemination across digital, social, and traditional media channels.

To effectively position children’s rights at the centre of national dialogue and support evidence-based advocacy and resource mobilization efforts, UNICEF Maldives requires production of professional photography and videography services that captures programme results, human-interest stories, partnerships, and key events. This content will contribute to a digital-first storytelling approach, support national and global visibility—including on platforms such as website and social media and enable the office to engage diverse audiences, including policymakers, partners, donors, and the public.

In this context, UNICEF Maldives seeks to engage qualified individual(s) to provide professional photography and videography services in support of its communication and advocacy objectives. This includes delivering high-quality, on-demand visual content to document programme implementation, advocacy initiatives, donor reporting, emergency responses, and official events across the country.

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PURPOSE and OBJECTIVES

The purpose of this Long‑Term Agreement (LTA) is to establish a qualified roster of individuals to provide photography and videography services to UNICEF Maldives on an as‑needed basis. UNICEF is under no obligation to place any minimum volume of orders, and services will be commissioned only through individual call‑off purchase orders or contracts. The specific objectives of this LTA are:

• To ensure professional photographic and videography coverage of UNICEF Maldives supported initiatives and events in 2026-2027.
• To provide professional photographic coverage in line with UNICEF Maldives’ advocacy and programme priority areas by capturing everyday voices of children, adolescents, young people and their families that can be used in digital, web and print content such as social media, newsletters, banners, backdrops etc.

To develop video content to amplify and promote key messages of UNICEF advocacy and programme priority areas on digital and web platforms targeting young people, parents and communities.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:  TOR - Photography & Videography 2026 VA.docx

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Minimum requirements:

Individual Qualifications

The bidder shall be a legally registered individual with demonstrated capacity to provide professional photography and videography services. The individual must have the operational ability to respond to assignments on short notice and to deploy personnel to locations across Malé and outer atolls of the Maldives when required.

Technical Experience

The individual must demonstrate the following minimum experience:

• A minimum of three (3) years of proven experience in providing professional photography and videography services;
• Demonstrated experience in documenting programmes, events, field activities, or campaigns for development, humanitarian, non‑profit, or international organizations;
• Experience producing high‑quality visual content suitable for advocacy, donor reporting, digital platforms, and public communications;
• Experience delivering both photo‑based and video‑based outputs, including short documentaries, interviews, and event coverage.
• Proven experience working in challenging or remote environments, including outer islands, coastal, or marine settings;

Desirables:

• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts. 
• Experience working with the United Nations, UNICEF, other UN agencies, NGOs, or development partners is considered an asset but is not mandatory.

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For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

Remarks:  

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, eligible and suitable persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason. 

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

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