Photography Consultant

TERM OF REFERENCE

Photography consultant services for ongoing education projects in 2021

FOR VIETNAMESE NATIONALS ONLY

I. Background:

Aide et Action is an international nonprofit organisation working in 19 countries across Africa, Asia, and Europe. With the vision of Changing the World through Education, Aide et Action adopts a lifelong learning approach to reach the most vulnerable children and youth. Aide et Action has been working in Viet Nam since 2003 in Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa, Thai Nguyen, Hoa Binh, Lai Chau and Lao Cai provinces and focuses on three main themes:

1. Access and Quality of Primary and Secondary Education 2. Early Childhood Care and Education 3. Livelihood Education

Aide et Action Southeast Asia wishes to communicate the organisation’s achievements and success stories as well as challenges and tell the story of how the organisation’s projects are increasing access to quality education for marginalised children in Vietnam. To communicate efficiently, Aide et Action has the need to produce high quality photo material and is therefore seeking a photographer to document our work throughout 2021.

II. Purpose of the assignment:

1. Past and current barriers Aide et Action Vietnam’s project participants face in accessing education
2. The outcomes of specific projects (detailed below)

III. Scope of work and timeframe:

Scope of work:

1. A series of photo stories – 10-15 edited photos per story. Number of stories will depend on project, location and time available and will be determined at a later stage.
2. A minimum of 100 unedited contextual photos per project site that reflect Aide et Action’s project’s focus areas and document various project activities. Activities may include but are not limited to: o Aide et Action implementing project activities o Students eating lunch/receiving nutritional support o Classroom environments including students learning at desks or interreacting with teachers in class o Students traveling to school and other contextual images of geographic remoteness of schools/homes o Teachers – in school environment or attending training o Community projects teaching parenting, livelihood skills, etc. o Everyday life for children/parents/community members showing harvest season, agriculture work, etc. o Hygiene practices at schools or at home such as hand-washing

Timeline:

• The photographer is expected to be ready to begin by 1 March. The estimated time (excluding travel) will be 2-3 days of shooting in the field (locations to be determined) and may involve several trips (likely to be a minimum of three) to various locations throughout the year.

IV. Expected deliverables:

Contextual photos of project activities and project locations:

Expected photo stories:

1. A member of a children’s club who has learned new skills/knowledge and enjoys going to school and participating in the club. Also needed: a testimonial from parent/teacher on a change in ability or behavior in child
2. A teacher who has received teacher training/improved learning environment and feels he/she is now offering his/her students a better-quality education as a result
3. A parent who is a recent participant of this new project and can describe their needs for their children, why they joined the project and what they hope they can gain from it
4. A parent/family dependent on agriculture demonstrating the types of livelihood opportunities in remote project locations and the relevance of our project activities in this specific location.
5. A primary school child who already has gained access to improved nutrition that they did not have before joining the project. Also needed: a testimonial from parent/teacher on the importance of nutrition.

VI. Qualifications and Competencies

Competencies:

• Excellent communication skills ● Excellent photography skills and ability to deliver images that tell a story ● Ability to work with a multicultural environment and a multidisciplinary team ● Willingness to travel to project sites (within Vietnam), no matter how remote ● Demonstrates integrity and ethical standards ● Positive, constructive attitude to work

Required Skills and Experience

• Educational background in photography, journalism, communications, arts, media or any relevant field
• Minimum two years of experience shooting video and photography for NGOs
• Good communications skills and ability to conduct short interviews with subjects
• Contributing extensively to national and international media outlets is an asset
• Excellent communications skills especially written for putting together captions, photo essays etc
• Excellent coordination, organizational/management and communication skills
• Ability to travel and under tight time constraints
• Capacity to provide necessary photography equipment
• Preference to photographers with local language skills

VI. Application process:

1. A CV indicating past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number)
2. Contact details for two professional references
3. Link to online portfolio (please be selective and show only your best and most relevant work in one file/location and not a series of folders of images we need to navigate)
4. Details of equipment
5. Financial proposal, as stating Daily Fee in USD for shooting and editing. No other costs should be included in the financial proposal at this stage

Please be informed that only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further information and discussion. The recruitment process may end sooner if we find a suitable candidate to fill this position.

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