Jobs at FilmAid International

Job Function:

The project seeks to harness the power of media and communication to increase awareness on Gender Based Violence and Sexual Reproductive Health among teenagers, adolescents and their communities in Dadaab Refugee Camp. This will be achieved through FilmAid Kenya’s health and protection portfolios actively raises awareness about issues that affect the overall health and well-being of communities, promotes health seeking behavior by fostering demand generation, and provides critical access to health information during outbreaks and emergencies among teenagers, adolescents and their communities. The project officer will create a liaison between communities and the health partners Dadaab to achieve health outcomes in relation to GBV prevention and response and access to SRH services.

Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to;

Design, Development and Dissemination of Media Content

• He/she will establish a participatory process in media development to ensure the development of media content is contextually relevant, and promotes access to information on GBV and SRH among teenagers and their communities.
• Lead all project planning activities to ensure activities are implemented in a timely manner and that the project’s objectives are achieved
• Take lead in drafting of translation of key messages for bulk SMS system distribution
• Work to ensure there is improved access to accurate health information, increased awareness and knowledge about Sexual reproductive Health among teenagers and their communities
• Active role in designing child-friendly approaches to ensure effective program delivery

Project Coordination with Stakeholders and Communities

• Represent FilmAid Kenya in technical coordination meetings with health and protection partners
• Coordinate with relevant community structures including advisory committees to ensure a strategic approach in targeting participants and review approaches to ensure and effective delivery of FAK’s mandate
• Coordinate closely with the Sports for Protection partners to ensure implementation of the project in line with the approved plan

Project Support

• Ensure timely delivery of project activities according to approved work plans
• Support project planning, implementation, and monitoring to ensure achievement of health outcomes
• Participate in needs assessments activities including data collection for project design, monitoring and evaluation.
• Support project reporting, highlighting best practice and opportunities
• Ensure Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) are at the center of implementation
• Any other duties assigned

Qualifications and Requirements:

Education: Minimum of undergraduate degree in Public Health, Social Work, Community Development, Sociology or a relevant degree

Prior Work Experience:

• At least three years’ experience of leading health programs preferably in the humanitarian sector
• Proven experience in implementing projects targeting children and youths
• Experience in implementing SRH/GBV/ SBCC programs will be an added advantage
• Proven academic or on-job training and understanding of the Project Cycle Model in managing humanitarian assistance
• Training in Child Safeguarding
• Experience in report writing
• Facilitation and community engagement experience

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Fluency in written and spoken English and Kiswahili is essential;
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills;
• Creative and analytic thinker with the ability to manage multiple projects;
• Must be highly organized and able to work with other teams.
• Competent with Windows and Microsoft Office applications

Personal Attributes:

• High level of motivation, integrity, commitment and professional responsibility.
• Ability to tolerate cultural, educational, and religious diversity in the workplace.
• Excellent communication, time management, organization and presentation skills.
• Able to work independently while being a good team player with a high degree of flexibility, tolerance and a good sense of humor

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About the Role:

Create and oversee the production of multimedia content from short films (documentaries, docudramas, and drama series) to animations, child-friendly productions, print, and promotional materials. The role also includes working directly with refugee students and alumni from the FilmAid Kenya (FAK) training program to ensure a continuation in capacity building and on-job training and ensure context-appropriate multimedia content productions are realized.

Expected Deliverables:

• All phases of the video/film production: scripting, directing, filming, editing, and translating/dubbing into different languages
• Produce multimedia content on various areas on protection, education, health and nutrition, and child protection, and other areas of need
• Lead engagement with refugee communities, development partners, NGO staff, and other relevant stakeholders in discussing some of the pertinent issues affecting the communities that FAK serves
• Conceptualize ideas and assemble media assets into high-quality content that supports our various media content production objectives
• Review baseline information on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) on various issues affecting the communities that FAK serves
• Identify, contract, and act as supervising producer for alumni groups to produce multimedia content

Specific tasks:

Message Development

• Coordinate the process of collecting feedback and adapt information gathered from the desk reviews, inter-agency consultations, feedback from meetings with the messaging committee, focus group discussions, and other review data into a messaging framework (film structure) in consultation with the community and other partners
• Act as a focal point in the development and approval of scripts for film projects
• Work with the Advisory/Messaging committees in message development, script pre-test, and approval of final media content to ensure responsive and context-appropriate content
• Prepare and present for review a mixed thread of multiple storylines. The storylines should respond to the messaging framework and be the basis for subsequent scripting
• Draft film treatment for film projects to be undertaken by FilmAid Kenya
• Prepare an accompanying interview raft for identified interviewees
• Edit and/or work closely with the editor to ensure the final product is responsive to the messaging framework

Production

• Recruit and supervise a production crew to help manage the production process for various projects
• Lead in pre-production all the way to post-production by developing film treatments and scripts prior to film production. Together with relevant project staff, audition, and select actors, interviewees, and locations
• Work with the FilmAid Kenya team, Alumni, and consultants to select actors; identify shooting locations and direct music performances for film projects to be undertaken by FAK
• Coordinate and guide actors during rehearsals for film projects and assist the production team in the production of the films
• Coordinate the recording of the soundtrack for the films. The music soundtrack will be generated from community groups
• Conduct post-production tasks ranging from logging and transcribing to syncing, converting, and exporting
• Work with the communications team and other arms of FAK to create promotional materials, conference materials, etc., including photo research and archiving
• Edit films, documentaries, and promos. Edit fast turnaround multimedia clips and social media videos
• Help develop new ways to present and distribute videos online and via social media for maximum impact
• Film interviews, events, and stories when requested and should be able to conduct interviews with insight and sensitivity and film hand-held observational scenes with confidence and discretion
• Create rough and final cuts. Work with and manipulate raw camera footage, insert music, sound effects, dialogues, graphics, special effects, and color grading
• Work with the production team to create an organized archive and backup system following FAK’s procedure. Including making sure that data has been downloaded and backed up
• Translate the completed and approved English video into local languages through voice over dubbing
• Other duties as assigned

Essential Skills and Experience

• Extensive and proven professional production experience, including shooting/editing credits for an established independent production company or broadcaster, with a clip reel or work samples (clearly indicating your role)
• A good sense of design composition, type layout, animation, and pacing
• Candidates should combine documentary and observational filmmaking experience with a strong journalistic sensibility and great skill with editing.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in at least one language apart from English and Kiswahili
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud programs (Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Adobe CC.)
• Experience in producing content in collaboration with children, adolescence, and the youth required
• Able to meet deadlines, work well under pressure, and a team player
• Extensive working knowledge of sophisticated editing software and a strong understanding of graphic design, color correction, and sound mixing
• Highly collaborative and creative with experience finding stories and characters
• Script and/​or voice-over writing
• Self-starter, able to work individually and in teams with limited supervision
• Highly organized, able to keep track of many projects simultaneously
• Experience working in fields of human rights, development, climate, is an advantage
• Experience with social media to share, disseminate and grow a brand
• Experience in archive and picture research