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|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Balkh, Bamian, Herat, Nangarhar, |
| Categories | Communication, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2021-05-27 | Close Date | 2021-06-04 |
| Vacancy No | 025/2021 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 4 | Contract Duration | 7 months |
| Education | Please apply by sending a CV and a cover letter that outlines how your experience and education rela | Experience | 1-3 years |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | |
About Company
About Integrity Watch Afghanistan: Integrity Watch is an Afghan civil society organization committed to increase transparency, accountability, and integrity in Afghanistan. The mission of Integrity Watch is to put corruption under the spotlight through community monitoring, research, and advocacy. We mobilize and train communities to monitor infrastructure projects, public services, courts, and extractives industries. We develop community monitoring tools, provide policy-oriented research, facilitate policy dialogue, and advocate for integrity, transparency, and accountability in Afghanistan. Integrity Watch was created in October 2005 and established itself as an independent civil society organization in 2006. It has approximately 50 staff members and 1400 volunteers. The head office of Integrity Watch is in Kabul with provincial programmatic outreach in Badakhshan, Balkh, Bamyan, Ghor, Herat, Kabul, Kapisa, Logar, Nangarhar, Parwan, Panjshir, Samangan, and Wardak. Integrity Watch’s work has three major components: (1) Community Monitoring, (2) Research, and (3) Advocacy. Integrity Watch tries to encourage active citizenship and community mobilization through its programs. Our community monitoring work includes development of community monitoring tools, mobilizing and training communities to monitor infrastructure projects, public services, courts, and extractives industries. Our research work is focused on policy-oriented research measuring trends, perceptions and experiences of corruption and covering wide range of corruption related issues including security and justice sectors, extractive industries, budget and public finance management, and aid effectiveness. The objective is to develop new, ground-breaking empirical research in order to set the agenda, influence decision-makers, and bring to the public attention non-documented and non-explored issues. The aim of our advocacy work is to enhance Integrity Watch’s pioneering role in advocating for knowledgeable decision-making and informed public debate on corruption and integrity. Our advocacy work includes facilitation of policy dialogue on issues related to integrity, transparency, and accountability. We advocate for access to information; budget transparency, accountability, and participation; aid transparency and effectiveness; social accountability; and other issues related to anti-corruption.
Job Description
Job Summary:
Integrity Watch Afghanistan is seeking the services of artistic photographers in Herat, Balkh, Nangarhar, and Bamyan provinces, who produce high quality, live and storytelling photos from the organization events, community monitoring activities, success stories or any other topic and issue relevant to the organization field activities.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Under the supervision of the Communications Manager, the photographers will be required to;
To capture high resolution images of Integrity Watch’s various community, social and advocacy activities in different parts of the provinces.
Caption each photograph with specific details such as the location taken, name of the person (for portraits), activity and any other relevant information.
The service provider of each province, shall provide Integrity Watch with at least 400 high quality photographs on a CD room/flash drive in the duration of 12 months. The copy right for all these photographs are reserved with Integrity Watch Afghanistan.
Key Deliverables:
Each service provider shall provide 400 high quality photos from the target province within the duration of 12 months.
Caption each photograph with specific details such as the location taken, name of the person (for portraits), activity and any other relevant information.
Job Requirement
Skills, experience and qualifications required
At least three years progressive experience as a photographer.
Experience taking photographs for community and social development related agencies and projects.
Availability and willingness to travel visit multiple places within the targeted provinces.
At least a high school certificate but possession of a degree or diploma or training in photo journalism will be an added advantage.
Ownership or possession of a high-resolution state of the art digital camera/equipment is a MUST.
Perform retouching and image adjustments after shoots.
Strong creative presence and artistic flair.
Submission Guideline
Please apply by sending a CV and a cover letter that outlines how your experience and education relate to the skills and experience outlined in the Terms of Reference to in the e-mail subject line please write “Photographer/Name of the Province” . Email with no Province name will not be considered.
The deadline for application is 08 June 2021. However, interviews of suitable candidates may begin as applications are received. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.