Photographer - Oxford, United Kingdom - Summer Boarding Courses

Summer Boarding Courses

Verified Company

Oxford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

About The Role:

Contract Dates - 27/06/ /08/2024

The Role
SBC Photographers are an integral part of a successful summer.

Your role will be to capture first-hand the full summer school or college experience and bring it to life for our parents through our blogs which are updated daily.

Your images will also be used across our marketing channels to promote future summer experiences to new families.

As a photographer, you'll take photos in a non-obtrusive manner to capture the natural essence of the summer experience but must also possess the ability to engage with students and make them feel at ease to secure specific shots outlined in our photography brief and shot list.

The Site

The Site

SBC at Oxford College is based over Wadham College and St Hughs colleges each of which will have it's own staff team.

Students on the college programme are 15-17 and the capacity is 160 students over both sites each week.

Ways we support our Photographer
s:

Fully paid DBS check
Extensive, paid, onsite training prior to student arrival
All meals and accommodation included
CPD and Appraisals
Staff Wellbeing Initiative
Access to Employee Assist Programme (EAP)
Online safeguarding and prevent training
Professional, fun and supportive environment

_Remuneration_:
Paid weekly, one week in arrears. The weekly rate received for Photographers is £540 PLUS any accrued holiday to be paid at the end of contract)* Food and accommodation are included for all residential SBC staff.

_ Working Hours:

_ **A normal working week for Photographers will consist of up to 50 hours per week over six working days.

Main Duties:

Capture the summer school experience, producing highquality images to be used for our daily summer blogs which will be accessed by students' parents and guardians.
Follow a varied brief throughout the summer which will involve photographing staff training sessions for recruitment promotion, academic sessions, multiactivity programmes, accommodation, excursions and more as required in the brief.
Manage your time sufficiently within your allocated sessions to capture, edit and upload images to a private shared folder in One Drive.
Take responsibility for promptly uploading images daily to One Drive for the digital team to select and add them into the daily blog.
Be proactive, take initiative and control of the daily schedule, discuss with the school management team any changes to the school day, understand changes and challenges which may mean things change and adapt to these, i.e. the weather, changes to the activity timetable.
Ensure that on a daily basis you capture images that represent the academic, social and activitybased events so that we can showcase these to our families.
Ensure that we represent all children throughout their 2week course in our photography, organising and capturing large group shots.
Work closely with the onsite content creator to capture relevant images for online content.
Equipment
You will be expected to provide the following list of equipment
Digital SLR Camera
A lens that is capable of capturing photos at a distance
Laptop with editing software
Cables required for transferring images
Tripod (optional)

_Please see the attached Job description for a more complete list of the duties associated with the Photographer role._

About You:

SBC PERSON SPECIFICATION
All members of staff employed by SBC will be expected to bring certain key qualities to the operation. There must be a professional interest in working with young people and particularly international children.

Safety and welfare of the students is of paramount importance at SBC and a practical enforcing of this belief should be a quality exhibited by all staff.

We look for staff who are:

Approachable & empathic to the needs of students
Enthusiastic & engaging
Diplomatic, responsible & motivated
Flexible within the summer school environment
We expect all SBC staff to be able to communicate effectively with our students, using an appropriate level of language to suit the group. SBC staff must demonstrate patience, empathy and an emotional awareness towards students both individually and in within a group setting. We expect all staff to take control of students and to manage discipline and behavioural issues in a firm, positive and constructive manner._

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Essential

Confident to take charge of situations and set up shots
Works well under pressure and is adaptable
Can multitask and is good at their own time management

Desirable

Experience working with young people
Experience working in a school, summer school or similar environment
Experience of the UK boarding environment
Experience working within the education sector

About Us:

Founded in 2008, Summer Boarding Courses have united students from around the world through education. Delivering award-winning, future-focuse