Voice-over actor

About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

ADPC is an autonomous intergovernmental organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with governments, development partners, international organizations, NGOs, civil society, private sector, media, and other key stakeholders. Established in 1986 as a technical capacity building center, ADPC has grown and diversified its expertise across social and physical sciences to support sustainable solutions for risk reduction across a broad range of specialist areas. With over 100 staff from 19 different nationalities and a wide range of professional expertise from atmospheric scientists to social scientists with experiences from all levels of engagement typically required for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Resilience (CR) in an effective manner. ADPC is a competent regional resource center and has seven thematic departments: ADPC Academy, Risk Governance, Climate Resilience, Urban Resilience, Health Risk Management, Preparedness for Response and Recovery, Geospatial Information. These are supported by Finance, Human Resources and Administration, and Strategic Planning departments. In addition to the departments, ADPC works on three cross-cutting themes: Gender and Diversity, Poverty and Livelihoods, and Regional and Transboundary Cooperation through permanent working committees. ADPC Strategy 2020 guides the organization in providing comprehensive risk reduction support to countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific. ADPC recognizes the importance of examining the linkages between disaster risk management, poverty reduction, gender equality, sustainability, rights-based approaches, climate change and regional cooperation. For details please refer to ADPC website at http://www.adpc.net/

Objectives of the consultancy services

ADPC is developing an online training course (7 core modules) and is looking for a consultant that can provide voice-over for animations and slide presentations in support the development of the online course.

Duty Station

Home-Based (Any location)

Introduction of the project

ADPC, with the support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), is implementing an urban resilience program titled “Urban Resilience to Climate Extremes in Southeast Asia” (URCE). The program goal is to build ‘resilient communities in deltaic and coastal urban areas’ and strengthen resilience of the urban systems and urban communities to the current and emerging climate extremes, disasters and emergencies that are anticipated in the deltaic and coastal cities in Southeast Asia.

Scope of work

There are a total of 7 Modules, each with 3 - 4 lessons. Each Module will have an estimated running time of one hour. Voice-over is required for animated videos and some PowerPoint presentations. The estimated total length of voice-over required for the course is two hours.

Responsibilities

• The consultant will be responsible for the following:
• Understand voice-over needs of the course
• Review the video transcript in English • Smoothly read out loud from a script, convey tone and emotion through the voice, and speak in a pleasant-sounding voice
• Work closely with video editor for mixing voice-over with animated videos and PowerPoint presentations
• Work closely with course contributors to edit the script for a better voice-over, if necessary
• Communicate effectively with the course development team
• Maintain project documentation and course folders during the assignment
• Ensure assets/data security and integrity
• Perform other duties as agreed with ADPC .

Requirements

• The consultant should be a native speaker of English with a clear voice and accent
• The consultant should have relevant experience in doing voice-over for videos.
• Prior experience in working with the non-profit sector, especially in doing voice-over for online course is advantageous.
• The consultant should have excellent interpersonal and coordination skills, and ability to work with a team in a multicultural environment. • The consultant should be service-minded and detail-oriented.
• The consultant should have excellent organization skills.

Reporting

The consultant will work under the overall supervision of Director – Urban Resilience and under day-to-day coordination of the Project Coordinator for online course development. The consultant will also liaison with the ADPC Training Academy, whenever necessary.

Duration of the Contract

Maximum duration of assignment is 2 months

Commencing: 15 August 2020

Ending: 14 October 2020

As the consultancy is output based, the consultant may complete the deliverables prior to the deadline without any reduction to their total lump sum payment.

Remuneration and Terms of Payment

This is an all-inclusive lump sum contract for up to 2 hours of voice-over. Payment will be made at the conclusion of the consultancy service and submission and acceptance of the outputs by ADPC. Any additional minutes of voice-over will be paid as per the established per minute/second rates of both parties.

Selection

Method A consultant will be selected in accordance with ADPC’s recruitment and/or capacity assessment process. This will be combination of assessing key competencies, value for money and availability.