Onsite Photographer

**About The Role**:
SBC Photographers are an integral part of a successful summer. Your role will be to capture first-hand the full summer school 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.

**Responsibilities**

Capture the summer school experience, producing high-quality 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, multi-activity 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.

Please consider the attached Job Descriptions for our Onsite Photographerposition for a more extensive list of the responsibilities of an Onsite Photographer at one of our sites.

We have photographer positions available at several of our Summer School sites. Dates for these sites are listed below.

Headington 14/07/2023 - 21/08/2023
- Canford 07/07/2023 - 14/08/2023

Twyford 12/07/2023 - 12/08/2023

Eton 07/07/2023 - 07/08/2023

Cambridge 06/07/2023 - 19/08/2023

Oxford College 28/06/2023 - 12/08/2023

Rochester 05/07/2023 - 05/08/2023
- (Shorter contracts may be possible)_

**About You**:
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
- Although _Onsite Photographers_ are not required to teach the English language lessons, we do expect them to be able to communicate effectively with our students, using an appropriate level of language to suit the group. _Onsite Photographer_**_s_**_ must demonstrate patience, empathy and an emotional awareness towards students both individually and in within a group setting. We expect _Onsite Photographers_ 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 multi-task 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

**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)

**About Us**:
Since 2009, SBC International (SBC) has welcomed Young Learners, aged between 8 and 17 years old, from **151 different countries** to study our courses in some of the most prestigious academic institutions in the UK, including Eton College and Oxford University.

SBC is committed to providing our students with an exceptional experience. To create the global citizens of tomorrow, we guarantee a truly multinational learning environment which encourages cross-cultural learning, collaboration and friendship.

SBC is the first, and currently only, summer school provider in the UK to have achieved a perfect 15 Areas of Strength in a British Council inspection. In the EL Gazette ranking tables for UK Junior Courses, SBC has been ranked Number 1 in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. We are very proud of this achievement and will continue to grow and develop our courses to offer students extraordinary experiences.

**Ways we support our Onsite Photographers**:

- Extensive, paid, on-site training prior to student arrival