HAMAP-Humanitaire recrute 01 Videography and Photography Consultancy

Background

HAMAP-Humanitaire is an international humanitarian organization working in mine action and other humanitarian sectors. Its activities include explosive ordnance clearance, risk education, and capacity building.

The BRIDGE Project aims to strengthen Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE), promote the inclusion of victims and persons with disabilities, and increase public awareness through community-based and digital activities.

HAMAP-Humanitaire is seeking an experienced videographer and photographer to produce short documentary stories and social media content focusing particularly on persons with disabilities and conflict-affected individuals. Additional assignments may cover EORE activities, events, workshops, and field activities.

Objective

The initial assignment is to produce three human-centered documentary stories featuring persons with disabilities. Each story will combine interviews, observation of daily life, supporting footage, professional photography, and video editing.

Each final story should present the participant’s experiences in a respectful, inclusive, and non-stereotypical manner and must not exceed 1 minute and 30 seconds.

Additional photography, videography, or video-editing assignments may be requested according to project needs.

Scope of Work Photography

The consultant or team will:

• Take professional portraits of the persons featured in the stories
• Photograph participants, activities, locations, and relevant context
• Produce photographs suitable for reports, donor communications, social media, websites, publications, and other communication materials
• Select, edit, and deliver high-quality photographs
• Provide all photographs captured during each assignment, clearly organized and labelled

Videography and Editing

The consultant or team will:

• Develop a creative approach, filming plan, and shot list for each story in coordination with HAMAP.

• Film interviews, personal stories, daily activities, interactions, locations, and supporting footage
• Produce documentary-style stories rather than conventional filmed interviews
• Capture high-quality video and clear audio using professional equipment
• Adapt the production process to participants’ accessibility and communication needs
• Work respectfully and sensitively with persons with different types of disabilities.
• Respect participants’ dignity, privacy, informed consent, and preferred means of communication
• Edit each story with a maximum duration of 1 minute and 30 seconds
• Include color correction, sound treatment, music, titles, subtitles, logos, and simple visual effects when required.
• Integrate filmed sign language interpretation into the final video provided by HAMAP
• Adapt final videos to the required dimensions and formats for social media and other communication platforms.
• Follow HAMAP’s visual identity and applicable partner and donor visibility requirements
• Incorporate HAMAP’s consolidated feedback and complete the required revisions
• Transfer all raw footage, audio recordings, photographs, and editable project files to HAMAP

HAMAP will provide the general topics, participants, key messages, filming schedule, locations, logos, creative direction, and consent procedures.

Potential filming locations may include:

• Beirut
• Mount Lebanon
• Bekaa
• South Lebanon

Deliverables and Indicative Workload

The initial assignment will include three documentary stories. For each story, the consultant will provide:

• A proposed creative approach, filming plan, and shot list.
• Professionally filmed interviews, daily-life scenes, and supporting footage
• One final edited and subtitled story video with a maximum duration of 1 minute and 30 seconds.
• A version incorporating on-screen sign-language interpretation when required (Provided by HAMAP).
• High-resolution and platform-ready versions in the requested dimensions and formats.
• An agreed selection of edited photographs, including a portrait of the participant and behind-the-scenes photographs.
• All raw video footage, audio recordings, and photographs captured during the assignment, clearly organized and labelled.
• Editable video project files and related
• Revisions based on HAMAP’s consolidated feedback.

Additional photography or videography assignments may be requested to cover events, workshops, EORE activities, or field activities. Some additional videography assignments may require filming and delivery of raw footage only, without editing.

The scope, location, schedule, and deliverables of each additional assignment will be agreed upon in advance.

Equipment

The consultant or team will be responsible for providing all professional cameras, lenses, memory cards, lighting, sound-recording equipment, editing software, and other equipment required to complete the assignments.

All equipment must be maintained in good working condition and suitable for professional field photography and videography. HAMAP will not cover separate equipment-rental costs.

Required Qualifications

The consultant or proposed team should have:

• Proven professional experience in videography, photography, and video editing.
• Experience producing short documentaries, interviews, testimonials, human-centered stories, and social media content.
• Strong visual storytelling, interviewing, filming, sound-recording, photography, and editing skills.
• Ability to capture high-quality vertical and horizontal footage suitable for social media Reels, Stories, and other communication formats.
• A strong understanding of respectful, inclusive, and non-stereotypical representation.
• Understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, informed consent, and ethical photography and videography principles.
• Ability to meet deadlines and coordinate effectively with HAMAP’s

Previous experience working with people with disabilities and experience in humanitarian or social-awareness campaigns are considered assets.

Ethical Photography, Safeguarding and Confidentiality

The selected consultant or team will be required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement before starting the assignment.

The consultant must comply with HAMAP’s Code of Conduct, Safeguarding Policy, consent and media-release procedures, and other applicable requirements when photographing or filming program participants, children, vulnerable adults, staff, partners, and communities.

The consultant may only photograph or film individuals who have provided the required consent.

All information, photographs, video footage, interviews, recordings, documents, and other materials accessed or produced during the consultancy must be treated as confidential. They may not be shared, published, sold, licensed, reproduced, or used for personal, commercial, promotional, portfolio, or other purposes without HAMAP-Humanitaire’s prior written authorization.

All final products, raw footage, photographs, audio recordings, editable project files, and related materials produced under the consultancy must be provided to HAMAP.

Duration and Scheduling

The deliverables are expected to be completed and submitted within five weeks. However, the contract shall remain valid until no later than 30 April 2027, to cover any additional services that may be required at a later stage, unless terminated earlier in accordance with its terms and conditions.

Assignments will be scheduled according to HAMAP’s programme and communication needs. The consultant will be informed of assignments and expected deliverables in advance. The total number of working days will depend on the assignments requested.

Application Requirements

Applicants should submit:

• A CV
• If applying as a team, the profiles and roles of all proposed team members.
• A portfolio containing relevant story video, interviews, testimonials, photography, and social media content.
• Examples of previous work involving people with disabilities, if available
• A brief proposed approach to producing the three story videos.
• A financial offer in USD indicating:
  • The unit price for producing one complete story video of up to 1 minute and 30 seconds, including filming, photography, editing, subtitling, and integrating sign-language interpretation footage provided by HAMAP into the final video.
  • The daily rate for additional videography assignments requiring filming and delivery of organized raw footage only, without editing.
  • The daily rate for additional photography assignment.
  • The number of revision rounds, and service duration included in the proposed rates, to be stated in the comment section in RFQ document

Submission

Applications must be submitted to « adminlog.assist.lebanon@hamap.org » with the subject line “Videography and Photography Consultancy – BRIDGE Project.”

The deadline for submitting applications is 18 October 2026. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.