Multimedia Producer at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
Published On:
21st, June 2023
Closes on:
3rd, July 2023
Job closed
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Job Description
Rationale/Objective for Position
- As an organisation founded by journalists and doctors, communications play a specific role within MSF. We hope to alleviate suffering by providing medical assistance and by speaking out about what we witness in the course of our work. Communications helps to further our organisation´s wider objectives, including by helping us to grow our human and financial base, by communicating to our patients about the services we provide or by sharing health promotion messages.
- MSF Eastern Africa is the regional institutional office for MSF. The office focusses on representation and networking, recruiting and supporting staff from the region, communications and fundraising, as well as on other dossiers of importance to MSF such as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (DEI), mutualization, trainings, medical operational support and environmental health.
- The multimedia producer will be part of MSF Eastern Africa´s communication team which includes a director of communications and fundraising who oversees activity in the unit´s media, digital and events and fundraising workstreams. Whilst sitting within this team, the position´s main liaison will be with communications staff working for our projects in the region for which the producer will assist in creating compelling content for distribution to media and our offices around the world.
- The position reports to the director of communications and fundraising and receives technical support as needed from AV production teams across MSF.
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
- Minimum five years’ experience of producing strong multimedia content that tells compelling stories, with a background in either charity, broadcast/digital journalism, or agency production, preferably within East Africa.
- Solid project management and production skills, preferably within a journalistic role.
- Strong examples of recent work which includes producing engaging content for social media platforms.
- Experience with mobile journalism equipment and techniques.
- Experience filming with a DSLR camera kit.
- Experience of conducting on camera interviews.
- Copy/script-writing skills and the ability to adapt style to suit a range of audiences.
- Good understanding of editing workflows, including transcoding, ingesting and archiving footage.
- A highly collaborative and cooperative person, with the ability to work with colleagues in different counties.
- Thorough understanding of online video channels, social media, emerging technologies and innovative approaches for content creation within the COVID-19 context.
- Expert knowledge, skill and experience of Adobe Creative Cloud suite, in particular Adobe Premier Pro.
- Ability to work independently to general guidelines; capacity to take initiative and seize opportunities.
- Fluent written and spoken English. Regional languages are an asset.
- Commitment to the aims and values of MSF