On-call Video-journalist -
UNDP Belgrade -
Closing Date 1-Mar-2017
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Title: On-call
Video-journalist
Projects:
Reducing Barriers to Accelerate the Development of Biomass
Markets in Serbia;
Removing Barriers to
Promote and Support Energy Management Systems in Municipalities throughout Serbia;
Climate
Smart Urban Development;
Strengthening local resilience in Serbia:
Mitigating the impact of the migration crisis;
Enhancing Local Resilience to the
Migration Crisis;
as well as other
UNDP resilience portfolio activities.
Reporting to: Respective Portfolio
Manager
Duty Station: Belgrade
Contract Type: Long Term Agreement (LTA) followed by Individual Contract Framework Agreement (IC)
on per-needs basis
Duration: 31 March 2017 – 29 February
2020, maximum 180 days within the 3-year period
a. Purpose
To prepare video news reports for UNDP projects within the Resilience portfolio.
b. Objective
To contribute to better communication of projects’
results.
c. Background
Information
The United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), acting as an implementing agency of the Global Environment Facility
(GEF), is implementing together with the Ministry of Mining and Energy (MoME)
three GEF Projects titled:
1. Reducing
Barriers to Accelerate the Development of Biomass Markets in Serbia (Biomass
Project) and
2. Removing
Barriers to Promote and Support Energy Management Systems in Municipalities
throughout Serbia (EE Project).
3. Climate
Smart Urban development (CSUD Project)
With 2.85 m US$ from the GEF, the Biomass Project will have a total
volume of 30 m US$. Co-financing will be provided by Serbian institutions and
private investors.
The Biomass Project will inter alia contribute to establishing the
required legal and institutional framework needed for the development of the
biomass market. In addition, the project will provide an investment support
grant mechanism (ISGM) for private investments with the aim to realize 6
biomass/biogas fired combined heat and power plants (CHP). Additionally, a
number of similar projects will be technically prepared in terms of the
elaboration of feasibility studies and technical documents. Biomass Project
strategy is to increase institutional capacity of Serbia to deal with biomass,
by establishing the specialized Biomass Support Unit (BSU) within the MoME,
with the purpose to provide institutional support to the capacity enhancement
of all stakeholders to develop, finance, construct and operate bankable biomass
energy projects. In addition, BSU is responsible for the implementation of ISGM
and a public call for grant applications under IGSM. Complementary activities
will include a number of training activities for municipalities, investors and
banks, as well as capacity building and planning activities at the national and
local level.
With 2.3 m US$ from the GEF, the EE Project
will have a total volume of 22 m US$. Co-financing will be provided by Serbian
institutions, JICA and KfW.
The objective of EE Project is to introduce
and support the implementation of municipal Energy Management Systems (EMS),
including Energy Management Information Systems (EMIS), throughout Serbia to
increase the EE investments in public buildings and municipal services and to
facilitate their more energy efficient operation in general. EE Project is
fully in line with the provisions of the Law on Efficient Use of Energy which
stipulates establishing of an EMS in Serbian municipalities and therefore will
contribute its implementation. EMIS was developed by the UNDP Energy Efficiency
Project in Croatia with the purpose of monitoring, analysing and reporting on
the energy and water consumption in public buildings. In that respect, EMIS is
a powerful tool for energy management, necessary for the implementation of the
Law. While the minimum project target by the end of the project is to have at
least 30 Serbian municipalities to formally adopt and start the implementation
of EMS and EMIS, the EE Project also seeks to facilitate their replication in
other Serbian municipalities. Complementary activities will include preparation
of EE projects in public buildings/facilities (technical identification, energy
audits, elaboration of investment packages, etc.) along with the implementation
of 0.5 mill US$ grant for 10 EE demonstration projects in public buildings
including energy efficiency certification of buildings in accordance with the
Law on Planning and Construction. Further to that, EE Project will include
extensive capacity building of municipalities as well as advocacy in the field
of EE. In addition to the said activities the EE Project will include further
development of EMIS and development of axillary software tools of less
complexity aimed at specific tasks of municipal energy management.
With 2 m US$ from the GEF, the CSUD Project
will have a total volume of 12,51 m US$. Co-financing will be provided by following
contributions: Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection (5 million
EUR), UniCredit Bank (30 million EUR), Embassy of Sweden (12,5 million EUR),
the Government of Switzerland – Swiss Cooperation Office (13,88 million CHF),
RT-RK LCC (1 million EUR); Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities
(100,000 USD); Innovation Fund of the Republic of Serbia (6,9 million EUR);
Delegation of European Union to Serbia (1 million EUR).
“Climate Smart Urban Development Challenge”
project will be implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental
Protection, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP). The project duration is five years and will be jointly financed by the
Global Environment Facility, Ministry and respectful municipalities. The
objective of this project is to promote climate-smart urban development. To do
so, it seeks to actively engage citizens, communities and businesses – as a
means to jointly identify, finance and implement climate smart solutions for
cities. As a part of this, it will harness new information and communication
technology (ICT) to enable and spearhead innovation and productivity gains in
city services, in particular by improving the ability to collect, manage and
share large data sets and to integrate ICT into existing city management
systems. The project will take a complementary, 2-pronged (2 components)
approach. First, the project will assist participating municipalities to
mainstream ICT into city management systems, putting in place digital
inventories and tools to gather data and monitor actions. Second, the project
will establish a challenge programme as an innovative mechanism to source
solutions for low-carbon activities, and will subsequently support the
implementation of activities identified under the programme. Project will be
focused on areas such as sustainable urban planning, sustainable energy
production (including energy efficiency and utilization of renewable energy
resources), waste management in terms of reduced GHG emissions, intelligent
electricity networks, energy efficient public lightning, sustainable transport,
construction of sustainable ventilation and heating systems, sustainable
infrastructure in agriculture etc. This project will promote innovative and
integrative approaches and new technologies for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions at the local level and will promote new business models, public
private partnerships and social inclusiveness as integrative approach in
mitigating climate change. Project will also provide assistance in the
establishment of “Innovation Challenge Programme (a sort of project based
Fund)” with the goal to provide initial capital for interested stakeholders
(including businesses, research-scientific institutions, civil society
organizations, individuals etc.) for testing and initiation of most innovative
project ideas, including the opportunity for further co-financing of the most
successful solutions.
UNDP is currently implementing two migration related projects: “Strengthening local resilience in Serbia:
Mitigating the impact of the migration crisis” and “Enhancing Local Resilience
to the Migration Crisis” worth 2,390,000 USD in the period of 2016 till 2018.
So far UNDP performed strategic analysis of the evolving local community
needs, to assist the municipalities most affected with the migration crisis to
use it to stimulate sustainable development, and be better prepared for current
and future shocks.
The above mentioned projects will provide immediate additional support
in the following areas:
1.
Improving
capacity of local authorities to manage the impact of migration by identifying
key legal- and capacity weaknesses in public service delivery, convening
government and municipalities to set priority actions, and assisting in the
process of municipal service delivery.
2.
Management
of public service delivery in Presevo, Sid, Bujanovac, Bosilegrad and
Dmitrovgrad. Working with public utility
providers, UNDP will assist in introducing safe and environmentally-sustainable
solutions to waste removal and waste management.
3.
Improving
social support services in Presevo and Sid, and in municipalities where
migrants and refugees may stay for longer periods of time.
To achieve synergy in supporting the impacted municipalities and enable
coordination of activities of all the relevant domestic and international
stakeholders, UNDP Serbia is chairing the Working Group on Local Community
Support (WG), together with the Ministry of Public Administration and Local
Self-Government (MPALSG). In addition to MPALSG, UNDP also closely cooperates
with the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs and the
Governmental Working Group for Managing Mixed Migration Flows.
Description of Responsibilities
a. Scope
of work
Under the supervision of the respective Portfolio
Manager, the On-call Video-journalist will undertake the following tasks:
1. Agreeing
with project teams the issues that will be communicated to the public through news
articles and video news reports:
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Communicating with the
respective UNDP project team on all issues related to concrete events coverage.
- Producing video news reports:
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Writing news articles to be
incorporated into video reports;
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Shooting and editing video
reports, giving facts about respective project activities and events;
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Arranging roadshows and
video covering of trainings, seminars, fairs and workshops;
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Proposing which video news reports
should be published in the media and at the relevant web sites and producing corresponding
items, upon the agreement with the respective UNDP Portfolio Manager;
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If required, incorporating
English subtitles into video news reports. The text for English subtitles will
be provided by the respective UNDP Project;
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If
required, uploading the video news reports to at least one news web service
site (such as www.infobiro.tv or similar) ensuring it has been available
for taking over and broadcasting by electronic media.
b. Duties,
responsibilities and key milestones
The consultants are responsible for the
following deliverables:
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Service deliverables
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Deadline
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1
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Up to 40 video coverages in total 160 minutes (shooting an
event, script writing, video editing, post-production, graphics operations,
delivering a finished video product)
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31 March 2018 – as
per request
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2
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Up to 40 video coverages in total 160 minutes (shooting an
event, script writing, video editing, post-production, graphics operations,
delivering a finished video product)
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31 March 2019 – as
per request
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3
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Up to 40 video coverages in total 160 minutes (shooting an
event, script writing, video editing, post-production, graphics operations,
delivering a finished video product)
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29 February 2020 – as
per request
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All deliverables will have to be
quality reviewed and approved by the respective UNDP Portfolio Manager. All
deliverables shall be submitted in Serbian language.
On-call Video-journalist must
provide high quality video camera along with all necessary equipment for
shooting and editing videos.
On-call Video-journalist must have
an access to at least one web site of some news web service (such as www.infobiro.tv
or similar).
Competencies:
·
Good
written and verbal command of Serbian and English language;
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Familiarity with
energy and environment terminology;
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Proficiency
in report drafting;
·
Proficiency
in video shooting.
Qualifications
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University degree
journalism and communications/management and production in theatre, radio and
culture or similar;
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At least 5 years of
experience in writing text/news articles and making video news reports;
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Experience in the preparation of publications and promotional materials;
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Experience
in working with wide range of stakeholders (private, government, etc.);
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Experience
in energy and/or environmental sector will be considered as an asset.
·
Experience
in working with international organizations will be considered as an asset.
Application
Procedure:
Interested individual consultants must
submit, via UNDP Web site: UNDP in Serbia under section “Jobs” no
later than 1 March, 2017, the following documents/information to demonstrate their
qualifications:
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Signed P11 (only PDF will be
accepted) containing e-mail addresses of at least three referees (section 26
& 29). P11 may be downloaded at: http://www.undp.org.rs/download/ic/P11.doc.
·
Offeror’s Letter (only PDF will
be accepted) confirming Interest and availability for the Individual Contractor
(IC) Assignment. Can be downloaded from the following link: http://www.undp.org.rs/download/ic/Confirmation.docx
. Offeror’s Letter will provide price per
listed product/services.
The shortlisted
candidates will also be asked to provide copies of diplomas and any other
certificates providing evidence of their education and experience.
Additional Information:
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Individual
Contract (IC) will be applicable for individual consultants applying in their
own capacity. If the applicant is employed by any legal entity, IC would
be issued upon submission of Consent letter from the employer acknowledging the
engagement with UNDP. Template of General Conditions on IC could be found on: http://www.undp.org.rs/download/ic/Confirmation.docx
·
Reimbursable
Loan Agreement (RLA) will be applicable for applicants employed by any legal
entity. Template of RLA with General Terms and Conditions could be found on: http://www.undp.org.rs/download/RLA%20with%20General%20Terms%20and%20Conditions.doc.
In the case of engagement of Civil servants under IC contract modality a
no-objection letter should be provided by the Government entity. The
‘no-objection’ letter must also state that the employer formally certifies that
their employees are allowed to receive short-term consultancy assignment from
another entity without being on “leave-without-pay” status (if applicable), and
include any conditions and restrictions on granting such permission, if any. If
the previous is not applicable ‘leave-without-pay’ confirmation should be
submitted.
Engagement of Government Officials and
Employees
·
Government
Officials or Employees are civil servants of UN Member States. As such, if they
will be engaged by UNDP under an IC which they will be signing in their
individual capacity (i.e., engagement is not done through RLA signed by their
Government employer), the following conditions must be met prior to the award
of contract:
(i) A “No-objection” letter in respect of
the individual is received from the Government employing him/her, and;
(ii) The individual must provide an
official documentation from his/her employer formally certifying his or her
status as being on “official leave without pay” for the duration of the IC.
·
The above requirements are
also applicable to Government-owned and controlled enterprises and well as
other semi/partially or fully owned Government entities, whether or not the
Government ownership is of majority or minority status.
UNDP recognizes the possibility that there
are situations when the Government entity employing the individual that UNDP
wishes to engage is one that allows its employees to receive external
short-term consultancy assignments (including but not limited to research
institutions, state-owned colleges/universities, etc.), whereby a status of
“on-leave-without-pay” is not required.
Under such circumstance, the individual entering into an IC with UNDP
must still provide a “No-objection” letter from the Government employing
him/her. The “no objection” letter
required under (i) above must also state that the employer formally certifies
that their employees are allowed to receive short-term consultancy assignment
from another entity without being on “leave-without-pay” status, and include
any conditions and restrictions on granting such permission, if any. The said
document may be obtained by, and put on record of, UNDP, in lieu of the
document (ii) listed above.