Terms of Reference: Multimedia consultancy CIVICUS Protest Resilience Toolkit At CIVICUS

Location: Remote, Global
Duration: Approx. 3.5 months (mid-January to end of April 2022)

About CIVICUS

CIVICUS exists to defend people power. As a growing global alliance of over 10,000 members in 175 countries, we work together to monitor violations of basic civic freedoms, call out the perpetrators of violations and strengthen the power of people to organise by supporting a more accountable, effective and innovative civil society. We strive to promote excluded voices, especially from the Global South.

Scope of work

The Freedom of Peaceful Assembly Global Resource Hub pilot initiative is looking for a consultant or team of consultants to help with the updating of the protest resilience toolkit. The first phase of the update will focus on transforming the toolkit into a more digestible, understandable, and sharable format. The consultant(s) will produce multimedia content based on the three sections of the toolkit namely: 1) tactics for overcoming challenges, 2) strategies for sustainable protests, 3) fostering collaboration and 4) best practices and recommendations. The consultant(s) are expected to produce 1 short video (not more than 3-4 minutes) and 1 visual summary per identified section of the toolkit.

The consultant(s) will:

• Lead the consultative discussions with CIVICUS to agree on key content;
• For the short videos:
• Lead the writing, drafting, and agreement on a script/storyboard. The consultant/s is expected to write a short, succinct video script outlining the most important content.
• Produce videos, including any recording, motion graphics, audio narration, aligned with the CIVICUS style guide.
• Lead the development of the visual summary of each identified section of the protest resilience toolkit;
• Exercise final editorial oversight over the outputs;
• Provide finished videos and infographics as well as relevant open files.

Expected Outputs

The consultant will be expected to deliver the following outputs:

• Four short videos;
• Four visual summary graphics.

Key requirements

• Be able to translate complex concepts and text into digestible, relevant multimedia content;
• Creativity and an eye for detail and visual design, as demonstrated through a portfolio of work;
• Have a demonstrated portfolio of producing engaging content;
• Familiarity with working with communications software and tools: graphic design software (i.e. Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Piktochart, Lumen 5);
• Experience working in a civil society setting, and with civil society terminology;
• Commitment to CIVICUS’s vision, mission, values, and ways of working.