Photographer and Multimedia Specialist

South Sudan continues to face a protracted and highly volatile humanitarian crisis driven by conflict, climate shocks, economic instability, and weak health systems. Recurrent flooding, sudden displacement, and disease outbreaks have severely disrupted access to essential services in hard-to-reach areas. Humanitarian needs remain highly unpredictable and are expected to persist into 2027–2028 due to climate variability, localized insecurity, and limited system capacity.

According to South Sudan Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan, 9.9 people remain in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, with women and girls disproportionately affected. Limited access to quality health services, including sexual and reproductive health (SRH), contributes to high maternal mortality, unmet need for family planning, and preventable complications. At the same time, gender-based violence (GBV) remains widespread and acute, exacerbated by conflict, displacement, and weakened protection systems.

Climate-induced shocks, including flooding in Upper Nile, Jonglei, and Unity states, continue to damage infrastructure, disrupt supply chains, and isolate communities. These sudden and recurrent shocks increase risks of GBV, including early marriage, and negative coping mechanisms, while generating urgent and unpredictable surges in demand for lifesaving SRH and GBV services. At the same time, increasing cross-border movements, including returnees and refugees, are placing additional and unforeseen pressure on overstretched systems. This underscores the need for flexible, rapid, and integrated interventions. UNFPA has a clear comparative advantage as the lead agency for SRH and GBV coordination, with strong field presence and partnerships to deliver integrated, life-saving services.

This United Nations Volunteers (UNV) assignment is part of UNFPA’s humanitarian preparedness and response project in priority states and counties which involves field program monitoring, field coordination, community engagement and Accountability to the Affected Populations.

Under the direct supervision of the Resource Mobilization, Partnership and Communications Specialist, the UN Volunteer will support the production of high-quality photos, videos, the dissemination of human-interest stories and best practices, as well as contributing to the design and content creation and campaign UNFPA’s digital channels in South Sudan. Specifically, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

Assist in the production and dissemination of photos, short videos and digital contents and campaigns for the website and the social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram).

Assist in the design and dissemination of communication outlets, featuring UNFPA, donors and partners work in South Sudan

Facilitate the identification of profiles for human-interested stories and take beneficiaries quotes during activities in Juba and in the field.

Assist in the liaison with local media and engage them to advance the UNFPA mandate in South Sudan. Provide technical support for UNFPA-led events.
  
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to:

Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day);
Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country;

Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities;

Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; autonomies énergétiquement les centres de santé frontaliers de Bounkani et Tchologo par l’énergie solaire

Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers;

Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.