[Hiring] National Consultant for Specialist Lead Impact Storytelling, Multimedia Documentation, and Youth-Friendly Digital Content Development for the Youth Promotion Initiative (YPI) Project @UN Women

Role Description

UN Women seeks to engage a National Consultant to:

• Lead the documentation of impact stories and lessons learned from the YPI project;
• Produce short video clips and a high-quality documentary capturing the project’s impact;
• Develop youth-friendly, social media-ready advocacy materials (infographics, flyers, barcodes/QR codes, jingles, digital toolkits);
• Work closely with youth groups, content creators, and community networks to ensure participatory, inclusive storytelling;
• Support creative dissemination of the National Youth Policy through engaging digital formats.

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree in Communications, Media Studies, Development Studies, Public Policy, Social Sciences, or related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience in multimedia production, storytelling, and development communications working with youth-led and women-led CSOs and community-based organizations.
• Proven experience producing documentaries, short films, and digital advocacy content.
• Strong understanding of gender equality, peacebuilding, and civic participation.
• Experience in graphic design, digital media tools, and social media strategy is highly desirable.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of local language in Liberia is an asset.

Requirements

• Conduct a desk review of project documents, reports, monitoring data, and beneficiary records.
• Develop a storytelling and multimedia documentation strategy, including key themes, messages, and target audiences.
• Identify beneficiaries, youth leaders, women peacebuilders, and stakeholders for interviews and documentation.
• Develop an ethical storytelling framework, ensuring informed consent, safeguarding, and gender-sensitive representation.
• Conduct field visits to selected Atayee Centers, Peace Huts, and youth engagement spaces.
• Collect qualitative data through interviews, focus group discussions, testimonials, and visual documentation of infrastructure improvements.
• Develop at least 10-15 high-quality written impact stories highlighting:
• Young women’s leadership
• Digital civic participation
• Intergenerational dialogue
• Inclusion of marginalized youth and persons with disabilities
• Peacebuilding outcomes
• Produce 6–10 short video clips (1–3 minutes each) optimized for social media.
• Produce one high-quality documentary (10–15 minutes) capturing the overall success and impact of the YPI project.
• Oversee filming, scripting, voiceovers, editing, and post-production.
• Incorporate subtitles, accessibility considerations, and youth-friendly formats.
• Ensure branding compliance with UN Women, UNFPA, OHCHR, and PBF visibility guidelines.
• Develop social media toolkits for National Youth Policy dissemination.
• Work directly alongside youth-led and women-led groups in co-creating content.
• Provide regular progress updates.
• Develop a final consultancy report summarizing activities conducted, content produced, reach and engagement metrics, lessons learned, and recommendations.

Benefits

• This is a home-based consultancy in Monrovia, Liberia.
• Local travel within Liberia may be required.
• UN Women will arrange and cover the costs of approved travel in line with its policies and procedures.

Company Description

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.