Strategic communications · Narratives · Multimedia

I help experts say what matters.

I find the angle, shape the communications and make the work—from the first interview to the final cut.

01 Question 02 Strategy 03 Narrative 04 Production 05 Delivery

Selected work

The thinking and the making belong together.

A selection of work across international partnerships, research organisations and national institutions. Each project started with a different problem: too much history, dense evidence, a message that needed focus or specialist ideas that deserved a wider audience.

Giving 25 years a point of view

25-year anniversary narrative · Institutional positioning

Currently in production Anniversary narrative film

The challenge: turn a quarter-century of institutional history into one clear argument about why the organisation still matters.

My contribution: restructured the story around a recurring “crossroads” idea, challenged jargon and moved the narrative from a catalogue of achievements to a sharper point of view: the data landscape has changed, but the need for country-led systems has not.

Narrative strategy Script development Institutional messaging

Turning principles into conversations

Trusting the Numbers · Podcast and editorial platform

The challenge: create a format in which senior statisticians and data thinkers could explore trust, transparency and relevance without sounding like a conference panel.

My contribution: shaped the “From Principles to Agency” concept, developed episode angles, helped structure expert conversations and built each episode into an editorial campaign across long-form audio, video shorts, quotations and social content.

Editorial development Expert communications Multimedia campaigns

Taking commitments from pledge to action

Commit to Data · Global campaign and promotional film

The challenge: move beyond declarations and explain a practical proposition: voluntary, time-bound commitments that can turn global data discussions into visible progress ahead of the 2026 UN World Data Forum in Riyadh.

My contribution: researched the campaign and its existing materials, sharpened the narrative for a wider audience and developed a promotional film. The concept used footage from the 2024 Forum in Medellín to show momentum, then shifted the story from discussion to concrete action.

Campaign narrative Video scripting Visual treatment

Preparing a statistics office for a major launch

NISR Rwanda · Five-day communications workshop

The challenge: help the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda prepare communications around its December 2025 Demographic and Health Survey launch—and strengthen the team’s practice beyond one event.

My contribution: reviewed the communications strategy and launch plan, developed survey narratives for video, social and traditional media, and delivered practical training in public speaking and press-release writing. The workshop also addressed calendars, metrics, roles and repeatable workflows.

Training Communications advisory Workflow design

Making a network visible on the global stage

Gender Data Network · UN World Data Forum film

The challenge: capture the first time members of the Gender Data Network appeared together at the UN World Data Forum—and make the result more useful than a conventional event recap.

My contribution: developed the narrative around the people behind the partnership and produced a short film that connected their presence at the Forum to the wider purpose of stronger gender data systems. The work brought together voices from Data2X, Open Data Watch, PARIS21, UNECA and UNESCAP.

Narrative development Multimedia production Partner communications

How I can help

From the first question to the finished piece.

I can enter at the advisory, editorial or production stage. The strongest work usually connects all three.

Communications advisory

Audit messages, channels and workflows; identify what is not working; and establish a more useful direction.

Narrative & messaging

Clarify what an organisation needs to say, why it matters and how the message should change across audiences.

Complex-content translation

Turn research, policy, data and specialist material into useful communications without losing the substance.

Campaigns & launches

Build a coherent communications sequence around a report, initiative, event or new body of work.

Expert communications

Help specialists communicate in their own voice through interviews, talking points, presentations and coaching.

Multimedia production

Develop and produce interviews, short films, podcasts and social video—from the editorial concept and field capture to the final cut.

About

A communicator who can think and make.

My background spans journalism, media production, branding and international communications. It taught me to ask better questions before choosing a format.

My recent work spans climate, gender, development finance, public-sector capacity and official statistics—often alongside governments, research organisations, national institutions and international partners.

Earlier work in the private sector helped me build the range I now bring to independent assignments. Experience across corporate, consumer, B2B and digital-service environments taught me to adapt across sectors, markets and audiences—and to take work from strategy and messaging through to production and delivery.

I write, edit, interview, film and produce. But the part I value most is the judgement before production: finding the argument, testing the framing and helping people communicate what they actually need to say.

3 languagesEnglish, French and Spanish

Multi-partnerWork across institutions, research and international networks

End to endStrategy, editorial and production

Selected organisations

Organisations I’ve worked with.

Bring me in when something complicated needs to be understood.

Available for selected advisory, editorial, campaign and multimedia projects.

Email me rodrigo.ortize@gmail.com Draft portfolio