Videographer at Search For Common Ground’s International

About the Project

• Search is implementing the Advancing Religious Tolerance (ART. 38) project which aims to strengthen engagement between key stakeholders to advance conversations and responses on Religious Freedom or Belief (FORB) as a powerful force for interfaith understanding and peace to promote tolerance and address interfaith conflict by working with religious communities to collaborate in developing initiatives that curbs violent narratives tied to religious conflict in Nigeria through positive public messages of religious pluralism and respect of human rights.

Background of Assignment:

• In line with Objective 2.3 of the Advancing Religious Tolerance (ART.38) Project - Media Peaceful Religious Narrative – that will contribute towards the development of a media campaign utilizing messaging that promotes interfaith cooperation, coexistence and countering violent rhetoric. Peace messages recorded in video formats as well as photos will be developed with the goal of adding to content of media peace campaigns, and will be disseminated across Search’s media platforms. 

Job Description
We are looking for a Videographer whose overall objective is to produce a 5-minute video documentary of the ART.38 Project activities as well as the project beneficiaries.

Specific Tasks

• Executing the entire production process including pre-production (i.e. video brief, script/writing and shooting sequence etc), principal photography (filming, sound, lighting, staging etc) and post-production (i.e. voicing/narration, subtitles, captions, editing, etc.).
• Visit the actual locations of the subjects and prime project activities in Abuja, Kogi, Gombe, Bauchi, and Kaduna States Nigeria, to conduct one-on-one interviews, to obtain excerpts for video interviews other visual resources
• Determine what will be an ideal location, backdrop, environment to shoot scenes or footages for video output
• Work in close collaboration with the Search team to review raw clips and implement modifications
• Produce a series of High Definition (HD) short videos (with subtitles where needed) detailing the key outcomes from the ART.38 Project including project activities across Northern Nigeria States, success stories/stories of change, as well as relevant portrayals of the personal lives and motivations of beneficiaries, which will eventually feed into a mini-documentary.

Qualifications

• Over 5 years of relevant professional experience in videography or photography
• Experience working with INGO or NGO is a plus.