Jonathan Perfect MCIPRSelected work & stories

Stories & case studies

The decisions behind the work.

What the problem was, how I approached it and what it took to make the work useful.

Digital leadership.

Setting priorities, governing content and helping people through change.

UNHCR / Digital leadership

Running a global intranet.

Editorial direction, a small central team and 250+ publishing focal points: how I helped a global staff platform work as a service.

UNHCR / Digital transformation & change communications

Making digital change useful to people.

Communications for the Business Transformation Programme and Workday rollout, helping staff understand what was changing and what to do next.

UNHCR / UNHCR Manual retirement

Retiring the UNHCR Manual.

A search problem led to a deeper question about authority. The work of finding owners, securing agreement and retiring outdated policy content.

UNHCR / Content governance

Where should the information live?

Working with colleagues on platform choices, publishing responsibilities and guidance that a distributed contributor network could use.

Editorial & visual storytelling.

Explaining institutions through clear narratives, films and field reporting.

OSCE / Ukraine communications

Explaining the monitors’ mission.

Establishing a digital presence and explaining the role of unarmed civilian monitors during intense international scrutiny.

OSCE / Stories, Real Lives

Stories from the field.

Developing a human-centred film series: field interviews, filming, scripting and multilingual production in Kyrgyzstan, followed by work in Serbia.

OSCE / Railway reportage

Confidence back on track.

A railway journey from Chişinău to Odesa, told through photographs and the everyday lives along a reopened route.