Photography Manager - 6605

Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a passionate, creative individual to join us as our Photography Managerin our Creative Content and Stories team.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.  When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave.  We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About you

As our Photography Manager, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality photography that showcases our brand, demonstrates impact, and inspires supporters to act. You will be confident processing, editing and researching images and ensuring effective dissemination of content packages and photography across the Organisation.

 You will have a keen eye for detail in writing captions and keywording and be methodical in your approach to archiving content. You will also have some experience managing the commissioning process, from planning and scheduling to briefing, negotiating rates and rights, and overseeing post-production. Working with the Photography Lead, you will play a key role in promoting best practices and ensuring we are following our image and brand guidelines, especially when it comes to the ethics of content gathering and image use.

In this role, you will:

• Support the Photography Lead in delivering high-quality imagery to fundraising, campaigning, and media teams.
• Edit image packages, ensuring compliance with brand, legal, child safeguarding, and consent requirements, and timely upload to our internal photo archive (Content Hub).
• Research and disseminate picture packages from our archive and online stock agencies for print and digital platforms.
• Distribute engaging images promptly to internal teams via various channels, especially during rapid onset emergencies.
• Commission freelance photographers, manage briefs, budgets, schedules, and post-production processes.
• Upload, keyword, and caption picture content to our in-house archive, negotiating usage fees and image rights.
• Collaborate with the Studio team and Creative Development Managers to identify photographic needs and prioritize commissions.

 To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Significant experience in photo editing, researching, cataloguing, basic retouching, and picture buying.
• Demonstrable budget management and negotiation skills with photographers and agencies.
• Advanced skills in image manipulation, understanding image reproduction and varying formats.
• Proven ability to interpret organizational needs, edit images to meet brand requirements, and pitch visual solutions.
• Strong knowledge of visual communications in the development sector and up-to-date legalities regarding image gathering and use.
• Proficient in both Macs and PCs, with expertise in Photoshop, Lightroom, and digital content platforms.
• Professional photography skills and experience in commissioning and delivering photo shoots.

What we offer you:

• Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.
• To have the best (and happiest) employees we focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
• You can find is our employment offer here.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

Closing Date: 29^th February 2024

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. 

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure: 

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-offer/

Interview Expenses: 

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employmentChecks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section here. For anything else you can email us on: careers@savethechildren.org.uk