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**About The Role**:
**Contract Dates** - 05/07/2024 - 12/08/2024

**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**

**SBC Canford Summer School **is located in the stunning campus of Canford School, near the seaside city of Bournemouth - which is the most popular city for learning English outside of London. SBC Canford's magnificent facilities are some of the best of any school in the country, offering students a chance to do a fantastic range of activities. SBC Canford is for students aged 11-15 and the capacity is approximately 290 students per week.

**Ways we support our **Photographer**s**:

- Fully paid DBS check
- Extensive, paid, on-site 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 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.
- Ensure that on a daily basis you capture images that represent the academic, social and activity-based events so that we can showcase these to our families.
- Ensure that we represent all children throughout their 2-week 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 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