Long Term Agreement: Individual Consultant – Writers

Purpose of activity: To document UNICEF’s activities to share with stakeholders at national and global level and to use as an advocacy tool.Objective: The overall objective of setting up this Long-Term Arrangement is to facilitate and expedite the process by which UNICEF Zambia will hire the services of writers on needs basis.

Scope of Work:

This LTA is being established to serve the needs of all sections in UNICEF Zambia country office related particularly to story writing and editing services to meet the office’s media, advocacy, fundraising and other programme objectives.

Note that writing assignments most importantly include field assignments to collect and write feature stories, preparation of media materials and writing/editing of related work.

• Write, edit and finalize human interest stories, texts for photo essays and other documentation as specified by UNICEF;

• Provide direct editing/writing support to programme sections in the compilation of donor reports and other materials for advocacy and fundraising (including donor proposals);

• Travel within the country to collect information, perform interviews and related tasks for the purposes of producing human interest or other stories and/or documenting UNICEF supported activities, donor visits and other events related to UNICEF work;

• Research issues and characters being documented.

Conduct in-depth interviews of community, service providers, government counterparts and beneficiaries to support the story writing while being mindful of sensitivities of specific situations;

• Edit/ re-write PowerPoint presentations or other written materials according to guidelines provided by the office. Revisions to be carried out as necessary;

• Work in close coordination (where required and when a photographer is engaged) with photographers/videographers to capture relevant powerful images for their stories and photo-essays;

• Review, organize, edit and consolidate materials for knowledge products, ensuring clarity and continuity of the argument as well as clarity of structure and core themes;

• Proofread layout files, including checking spelling, country and city names as well as acronyms and other abbreviations (making sure that they follow official UNICEF terminology and conventions), style consistency, callouts, layout problems, references, etc.;

• Ensure implementation of the UNICEF style guide (UNICEF style guide will be provided by the UNICEF ZambiaCountry Office);

• Write digital content media as required including project factsheets, web pages, stories of change and for knowledge products such as forewords, prefaces etc.;

• Draft blurbs, stories, and content as may be required for the website;

• Be available for feedback and inputs as per the requirement of the office;

• Be available for several rounds of editing with regards to stories;

The writers on this LTA may be required to work on Saturdays and Sundays, based on the requirements of theassignment.