LTA Photography Consultancy

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

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: 

 UNICEF Uganda photography consultancy.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

Minimum requirements:

[Include the vacancy requirements aligned to the category and level of the position. You can see examples in the branded VA example.]

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

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

[add the 8^th competency (Nurtures, leads and manages people) for a supervisory role]. 

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility jobs-near-me.org UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Remarks:  

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason. 

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.