EOI – Technical Multimedia Specialist – PCER at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

• The African Development Bank (“the Bank”) is a premier multilateral development finance institution.
• Its mission is to contribute to the economic development and social progress of its regional members, mobilize resources for the financing of development projects, and promote economic integration on the continent. Its shareholders include 54 African member countries and 27 non-regional member countries.
• It has established cooperation ties with an extensive network of international development partners and enjoys a very good reputation on the capital markets. Since its inception in 1964, the Bank Group has committed over US$100 billion to support +4000 development projects and programs in Africa. Over the last 10 years, the Bank has grown in size and impact and modernized its operations to drive efficiency and value for money.
• The Bank’s multimedia platform has become an important component of the Bank’s communication tools. It manages an important number of project videos, video statements, and full video coverage of all Bank major events.
• It needs a robust Technical Multimedia Specialist whose major responsibility will be archiving, indexing, and retrieving all Bank’s video material and coordinating its video activities (videotaping sessions, videotaping major events, using teleprompters and conference prompters to record statements by Senior Management, streaming live events to various platforms, assisting TV producers with video control room management on platforms).

Objectives of the assignment

• The ‘Technical Multimedia Specialist’ will help the Communication and External Relations Department better coordinate all its multimedia and video work, from production assistance to archiving and indexing.
• The Technical multimedia specialist will work with the multimedia team, ensuring that the multimedia and video coverage needs of the Bank’s departments are addressed.

Scope of work and Concrete Deliverables
The services to be provided under the assignment include but are not limited to:

Support to the Bank’s Audio-visual Activities:

• Coordinate filming and photo crews recruited by PCER or other Bank departments to cover events or produce genuine content.
• Help coordinate, with the head of the Multimedia section, all the audio-visual and multimedia coverage of Bank events.
• Operate the Bank’s audio-visual equipment (still cameras, video cameras, teleprompter).
• Assist stage managers and production managers with control room engineering to connect conference video and sound equipment to online conference tools.

Audio-visual Production Assistance:

• Manage all the procurement processes of multimedia providers working for the Bank.
• Manage digital asset files, including accurate file naming and archiving.
• Archive all the Bank’s video products in several versions.
• Index and timecode all the Bank’s video products and raw video footage.
• Assist the Bank’s filmmakers or video producers by providing them, upon request, with relevant thematic images derived from the Bank’s video archives.
• Basic editing of video footage.

Support to the Bank’s Multimedia Activities:

• Manage all in-house and remote events display screens.
• Adapt multimedia content to various screen ratios.
• Picture editing when needed.
• Upload videos, photos, and documents to various platforms.
• Help live stream Bank events and troubleshoot live streaming codec.
• Content workflow management using cloud and server mode.
• API management using multiple source live and offline.
• Podcast coverage and management.
• Provide remote support for events.
• Assist departments in producing interactive multimedia products.
• Provide real-time video grabs from live events for immediate consumption by the multimedia, editorial, and media relations teams.
• Any other multimedia-related task as needed.

Reporting line:

• The Technical Multimedia Specialist will report to the head of the multimedia section, under the auspices of the Multimedia and Branding Manager.