Location: Rabat, Morocco

Reporting to: Communications Unit Senior Manager

Purpose of the roster

ICARDA is building a roster for professional photographers and/or videographers to select from within when relevant opportunities arise.

Professional photographers and/or videographers are welcomed to apply, for an opportunity to be considered for future assignments that will typically be projects to document ICARDA’s work. Contractors will provide digital photographs and/or video for production of human-interest stories, social media materials, campaign publications, and website content, etc. The contract will be home based with required travel for field missions depending on the nature of each assignment.  

This call for the roster is published to give an opportunity to applicants to express interest in being part of this roster to undertake the key accountabilities listed below when the opportunities arise.

The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is a treaty-based international non-profit research organization supported by CGIAR.  ICARDA’s mission is to reduce poverty, enhance food, water, and nutritional security, as well as environmental health in the face of global challenges including climate change. We do this through innovative science, strategic partnerships, linking research to development and capacity development that take into account gender equality and the role of youth in transforming the dry areas. ICARDA works in partnership with governments, universities, civil society, national agricultural research organization, other CGIAR Research Centers, and the private sector. With its temporary Headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, ICARDA operates in regional and country offices across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. For more information: www.icarda.org  

All CGIAR Centers are currently engaged into a reform process (“One CGIAR’”) that will help ICARDA and CGIAR achieve better impact through more strategically integrated research, unified governance, an integrated structure and new research modalities across participating Research Centers. This transformation is supported by CGIAR donors who have committed to increased funding as a result of these reforms.

• The contractor will work alongside the Communications Staff and Project Staff to develop a project brief and costing that plans and executes 1-5 days trips to the project sites to capture digital image/video material.
• A ‘shopping list’ of images and/or video will be provided by the Communications Unit along with a list of deliverables, and performance indicators.
• Video interviews may be included.
• Post-production of images and/or video will be included.
• Written stories to accompany images may be optional and will be planned within the brief.
• A set of images in RAW format as well as edited/enhanced JPG format images.
• RAW video, preferably in short clips.
• Possible edited video – to be discussed and planned in the brief.
• Basic background information in written form that includes names of subjects included in
• images and/or video, their age, location, job, and description of the photo.
• The medium on which the images and/or video will be delivered on (external drives, etc), will also be planned in the project brief.
• The copyright of all photo and/or video materials produced (raw and edited) will belong to ICARDA.