Summary: Oxfam is a global movement working to end the injustices of poverty and inequality. In

Job Details

  • Company: Vacancy Mail Zimbabwe
  • Location: Kenya

Job Description

Job Description

Oxfam is a global movement working to end the injustices of poverty and inequality. In

Zimbabwe, Oxfam supports initiatives that advance social justice, gender equality, and the rights

of women and girls.

Background of the programme.

Oxfam is implementing the Empowering and Safeguarding Girls' Rights through Education (BEH)

Project in Zimbabwe and Malawi. The project seeks to improve access to education, strengthen

girls' agency and life skills and address harmful social norms that hinder girls' educational

attainment. The project focuses on adolescent girls and young women, particularly those facing

barriers such as poverty, child marriage, teenage pregnancy, gender-based violence, lack of

menstrual hygiene products, and long distances to school.

Through interventions such as bursaries, bicycles, dignity kits, vocational skills training

community awareness campaigns, leadership engagement, and parent-child champion

initiatives, the project has contributed to improved school attendance, retention, transition and

empowerment of girls in targeted communities.

Rationale of the short videos and pictures

As the project reaches a significant milestone, Oxfam intends to document achievements, lessons

learned and transformative impact through a high-quality documentary film and photography

package for dissemination to funding partners, partners, stakeholders, and the wider public.

The documentary seeks to provide compelling evidence of the project's contribution towards

improving girls' access to education and safeguarding their rights. It will showcase real-life

experiences of participants, communities, schools and stakeholders while highlighting innovative

and sustainable solutions promoted through the project.

The documentary will serve as

o A funding partnersaccountability and reporting product.

o An advocacy tool for girls' education and protection.

o A knowledge and learning resource.

o A communication asset for fundraising, stakeholder engagement and public awareness.2

Key Documentary Themes and Storylines

Story 1: Girls Returning to School and Completing Their Education

The documentary should feature girls whose educational journeys have been transformed

through project interventions.

Key areas to explore include

  • Barriers that kept girls out of school.
  • Child marriage and teenage pregnancy challenges.
  • Poverty and inability to pay school fees.
  • Long distances travelled to school.
  • Lack of learning materials.
  • Impact of receiving bursaries, bicycles, solar lanterns, and educational support.
  • Aspirations and future career ambitions.

Potential participants include girls who received bicycles, school support and educational

assistance.

Story 2: Economic Empowerment and Skills Development

Document stories of girls acquiring vocational and livelihood skills through project-supported

training.

Focus areas

  • Agripreneurship activities.
  • Poultry production.
  • Tailoring and sewing.
  • Catering and baking.
  • Small business development.

The documentary should demonstrate how skills training contributes to economic independence

and school retention.

Story 3: Menstrual Health and Dignity3

The documentary should showcase how menstrual hygiene interventions have improved

attendance and participation of girls in school.

Key questions

  • What challenges did girls face before receiving support
  • How have dignity kits improved attendance
  • In what ways have girls’ clubs strengthened members’ confidence to openly discuss

menstrual health

  • How have attitudes among boys and teachers changed
  • What impact has gender-responsive education had

This segment should include testimonies from learners, teachers, and school authorities.

Story 4: Challenging Harmful Social Norms

The documentary should examine how communities are addressing

  • Child marriage.
  • Gender discrimination.
  • Unequal household responsibilities.
  • Negative perceptions about girls' education.

Capture voices from

  • Parents.
  • Community leaders.
  • Parent-child champions.
  • Traditional leaders.
  • School Development Committees.

Highlight changes in attitudes and community ownership of girls' education initiatives.

Story 5: Community Leadership and Advocacy4

Document the contribution of trained local leaders and community champions in promoting girls'

education.

Focus on

  • Community dialogue processes.
  • Advocacy initiatives.
  • Success stories resulting from community engagement.
  • Evidence of increased support for girls' education.

Outputs for each person/story

o 1 x Transcript (English, time-stamped)

o 1 x Video of interview (3-5Mins)

o 15-20 Photos showing neutral head of person looking straight at camera individual shot

  • compelling, engaging, eyes to camera.

o Relatively close-up environmental portraits, shows the person’s strength head shot –

close happy, close serious establishing shot – with family, with community or in their

environment (residential or school, marketplace)

o Photos of them inside home, or school every day shot – such as at school, doing

homework, cooking etc.

o Photos of tangible items received – bike, pens, books, uniforms etc

Duties and Responsibilities

Methodology

Production of short videos should follow a participatory approach where views of implementing

teams, rights holders, learners and stakeholders in the district are incorporated.

Timeframe

The assignment will be completed over a period of 15 days.

Equipment for the task

Oxfam will neither purchase nor provide any equipment towards the production of the short

videos and photographs. All equipment (preferably state of the art, high definition) needed to

complete the task shall be provided by the service provider. The service provider is required to

share an itemised list if equipment at his/her disposal.

Logistical support

Oxfam will cater for the transport while documenting these activities. Oxfam will facilitate

meetings between service providers with rights holders, learners and stakeholders and with

identification of investments, interventions and impact to be documented.5

Copyright.

All materials produced from the production of the short videos and shooting of photographs shall

remain the property of Oxfam. Service providers CANNOT use the produced material in any

capacity without receiving in writing, prior approval from Oxfam.

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications and experience of consultants

  • The service provider should have at least a bachelor’s degree in communication, media

studies or equivalent.

  • Should have extensive experience in producing development work related short videos

and documentaries for organizations with the aim of reaching out to both local and

international audiences.

  • Must have a minimum of five years in videography, photography, producing

documentaries and short films.

  • The service provider should have state of the art high-definition filming equipment.
  • Ability to adhere to deadlines and flexibility.
  • Ability to work in multicultural environment.
  • Should have valid registration certificates with the relevant authorities.
  • Should have a USD bank account.
  • Demonstrable evidence of ethical content-gathering techniques and knowledge on

gender and safeguarding issues.

  • The ideal candidate should not have been previously convicted of an offence involving

children

  • All service providers are required to adhere to Oxfam’s Safeguarding Principles

particularly as this assignment involves direct engagement with children and young

people.

  • Proposals must explicitly acknowledge these safeguarding requirements, and successful

applicants will be expected to familiarise themselves with and comply with Oxfam’s

safeguarding policy(Safeguarding policy)

  • Evidence of similar work previously done would be an added advantage.

Selection criteria

Reservation and Confidentiality

  • Oxfam reserves the right to withhold all or a portion of payment if performance is

unsatisfactory if work/output is incomplete, not delivered, or for failure to meet

deadlines.

  • In the event of the producer ending the contract before delivering all agreed-upon

products, a portion of the payments shall be returned to the Oxfam Office.6

  • The contractor undertakes to maintain confidentiality on all information that is not in the

public domain and shall not be involved in another assignment that represents a conflict

of interest to the prevailing assignment.

  • The Contractor shall refrain from promoting any political or religious beliefs in the video

which is the subject of this contract.

Submitted applications will be selected based on the following criteria.

  • Sound technical proposal with an implementable methodology. 30 points
  • Budget 20 points
  • Traceable previous work experience 20 points
  • Educational qualifications 30 points

How to Apply

Application procedure

Service providers who meet the above qualifications and experience should submit a technical proposal and a budget indicating payment terms in a bid document of not more than 5 pages.

The technical proposal should include the methodology as well as a portfolio of previous works with traceable references.

Tax and VAT arrangements

Oxfam will deduct withholding tax from the consultancy fees if the consultant has no tax

certificate which in conformity with the prevailing government rates and submit the same to the Government. The consultant will be entitled to a copy of the tax submission certificate upon request.

Oxfam calls upon interested and qualified company or individual consultants to submit their

expressions of interest to

Oxfam in Zimbabwe – 13 Brigadier Atif, Manzil, Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe via.

Email: Zimtenders@oxfam.org.uk

Closing date for receiving applications is: 30 October 2026

Please note that applications will be assessed on a rolling basis

How to Apply

Apply by email: zimtenders@oxfam.org.uk

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