LTA Photography Consultancy job at United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Background

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, an advocate.

UNICEF Uganda’s 2026-2030 Country Programme is dedicated to advancing the rights and wellbeing of children through strategic interventions in health, education, child protection, climate action, digital inclusion, and humanitarian response. High-quality photography is essential to communicate UNICEF’s impact, inspire advocacy, and document the evolving narrative of children, families, and communities across Uganda. As visual content becomes increasingly critical for awareness, advocacy, upstream work and resource mobilization, UNICEF requires skilled photographers who can deliver compelling imagery for diverse platforms and audiences at various levels, national and global.

How can you make a difference?

As a Photographer, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening UNICEF’s visual storytelling by producing powerful, high‑quality imagery that drives awareness, advocacy, upstream engagement, and resource mobilization. You will create compelling visuals tailored for diverse platforms and audiences at national and global levels, ensuring that UNICEF’s work and the experiences of children and communities across Uganda are documented with impact, authenticity, and excellence.

Objectives of the Assignment

• To visually document UNICEF Uganda’s work, events, and programs nationwide, capturing field and urban contexts in line with the 2026-2030 Country Programme priorities.
• To generate a robust portfolio of images suitable for reports, publications, media releases, digital channels, donor engagement, and internal use.
• To ensure all photography upholds UNICEF’s ethic confidentiality, and informed consent protocols.

Scope of Work:

The overall objective is to recruit a set of photographers (consultants) with agreed, fees and terms of engagement. This will help the UNICEF Uganda Country Office to contract their services to document UNICEF’s activities in the field on an ‘as needed’ basis, to share with stakeholders at national, regional and global level.

These tasks require highly skilled professional photojournalists with a sense of scouting for newsworthy, captivating and action related photographs. The consultant must be keen at details and conversant with the rules and guiding principles of photojournalism especially when it comes to shooting photographs of children, women and vulnerable people. Delivering 80 per cent of the tasks require content generation from the field and as such the consultant will be facilitated to undertake field missions for specific assignments.

The specific scope of work include:

• Undertake field visits and event coverage throughout Uganda, with national transportation and DSA provided per UN rules and rates.
• Capture high-resolution photographs of beneficiaries of Government of Uganda-UNICEF- donor supported beneficiaries, programmes, projects, staff, partners reflecting the dignity and true context of each intervention.
• Produce visual stories on UNICEF’s priority areas: health, nutrition, education, child protection, climate resilience, humanitarian and emergency response, social protection.
• Deliver post-production services including editing, color correction, captioning, and metadata tagging (date, location, subject, context, and relevant quotes).
• Ensure all deliverables are submitted promptly after each assignment for review and evaluation.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of all information accessed for the assignment

Qualifications

Minimum requirements:

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Education:

Degree in communication, journalism, creative writing or similar discipline.

Work Experience:

At least 5 years’ experience in the field of writing and editing including proven experience in writing, editing communication materials and understanding editorial processes.

Experience in undertaking similar work or projects

Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to produce high quality creative communication materials for public consumption.
• Excellent command of written English including spelling, punctuation and grammar
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and work schedules
• Familiarity with UNICEF’s work and children’s issues, UNICEF’s reporting, writing and storytelling guidelines.
• Ability to synthesize complex documents into scripts where needed and simple public facing materials.

Language Requirements:

English

• To visually document UNICEF Uganda’s work, events, and programs nationwide, capturing field and urban contexts in line with the 2026-2030 Country Programme priorities.
• To generate a robust portfolio of images suitable for reports, publications, media releases, digital channels, donor engagement, and internal use.
• To ensure all photography upholds UNICEF’s ethic confidentiality, and informed consent protocols.
• Undertake field visits and event coverage throughout Uganda, with national transportation and DSA provided per UN rules and rates.
• Capture high-resolution photographs of beneficiaries of Government of Uganda-UNICEF- donor supported beneficiaries, programmes, projects, staff, partners reflecting the dignity and true context of each intervention.
• Produce visual stories on UNICEF’s priority areas: health, nutrition, education, child protection, climate resilience, humanitarian and emergency response, social protection.
• Deliver post-production services including editing, color correction, captioning, and metadata tagging (date, location, subject, context, and relevant quotes).
• Ensure all deliverables are submitted promptly after each assignment for review and evaluation.
• Maintain strict confidentiality of all information accessed for the assignment

• Demonstrated ability to produce high quality creative communication materials for public consumption.
• Excellent command of written English including spelling, punctuation and grammar
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and work schedules
• Familiarity with UNICEF’s work and children’s issues, UNICEF’s reporting, writing and storytelling guidelines.
• Ability to synthesize complex documents into scripts where needed and simple public facing materials.

• Degree in communication, journalism, creative writing or similar discipline.
• At least 5 years’ experience in the field of writing and editing including proven experience in writing, editing communication materials and understanding editorial processes.
• Experience in undertaking similar work or projects