Videography and Photography Consultant at World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Duties and responsibilities

Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of the assignment is to document key project achievements and resulting impacts particularly, gender-responsive, context-appropriate sustainable water, tree and wood fuel management interventions contributing to climate resilience, livelihood improvement and land restoration in Makueni County for wider scaling. Further, highlight efforts to strengthen county environment governance structures for effective coordination and intergovernmental collaboration on forest and landscape restoration. This video produced will support scaling-up of innovative nature-based solutions that integrate water, tree growing, wood fuel management and gender transformative approaches to achieve transformational change. The successful candidate is expected to make use of creative and engaging storytelling techniques to highlight key messages to the intended audiences (farmers, tree nursery operators, extension agents, policymakers, donors).

Scope of Work

The consultant will travel to the project location sites in Makueni County (Mbooni East and Kibwezi East) Nairobi and its environs to capture project achievements, impacts and lessons through videography and photography. This will involve taking appropriate photos and B-rolls as well as interviewing subjects and key project stakeholders. Prior to filming, the consultant will work with the CIFOR-ICRAF project team to develop a detailed video production plan, scripts, identify interviewees and logistical arrangements. 

Assigned tasks and outputs/deliverables.

• A detailed video production plan with timelines indicated.
• Well written scripts (including voice over narration where needed) with key messages included and incorporating feedback/input from the CIFOR-ICRAF team.
• The video should be recorded with a minimum quality at 1080p HD-RAW format footage (such as MOV, MXF or MP4) with minimum bitrate 15Mbps, with native framerate. No footage below 720p should be used unless it is archival footage.
• wo videos of 8-10minute and 3-5minute in length finalized in the recommended formats (MOV and MP4) and approved upon revisions/feedback by CIFOR-ICRAF
• 90-120 second teaser for promotional purposes
• Do not use any material under copyright (music, footage, image) unless explicit written permission is granted. If permission is granted, the following text must be placed on the upper left-hand corner of the video: “Courtesy of NAME”.
• At least 80 high resolution photos capturing a variety of actions, angles and landscapes.
• Provide a caption and all metadata for all photos submitted.
• Properly filled and signed audio-visual consent forms for ALL subjects.
• Provide written rights/license to all music in the video.
• Submit the hard disk containing all raw footage and photos to CIFOR-ICRAF Nairobi.

Education, knowledge and experience

• Demonstrated experience in producing videos covering natural resources management, agriculture and climate change for international organizations tailored for both local and international audiences.
• 5 years and above of experience in video production
• Excellent technical capacities (state of the art audio-visual equipment).