Contract Dates
28/06/2023 - 12/08/2023
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.
Ways we support our Onsite Photographers:
- Extensive, paid, on-site training prior to student arrival
- All meals and accommodation included
- CPD and Appraisals
- Staff Wellbeing Initiative
- Continual support for all staff from the Head Office Team, both on the ground and via phone/email
- Online safeguarding and working with international children training
- Professional, fun and supportive environment
- Fully paid DBS check
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.
Please see our website for more information. https://summerboardingcourses.com/work-for-us/
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 Photographers 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)
Applications for onsite photographer should include an uploaded link to view a photography portfolio if possible. If you are unable to upload a link to your portfolio you can send a selection of examples of your work to [email protected] but a link would be preferred.
Since 2008, Summer Boarding Courses (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.
As a small and growing office we are expanding year on year and where possible we aim to recruit from our short term summer staff before seeking external candidates. A large percentage of our Head Office staff worked at our summer sites before joining us for their full-time careers. As a part of Dukes Education we also have links to many other schools which occasionally offer up employment opportunities to our staff.
Whilst international travel restrictions have been in place, we have worked closely with a number of boarding schools to provide holiday courses for their students who have been unable to return home. We look forward to utilising this experience to provide a safe, secure, and enjoyable experience for all of our students and staff in the coming year.
SBC SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT
Summer Boarding Courses is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We have a comprehensive Child Protection Policy and procedures in place which all employees, volunteers and contractors are expected to adhere to.
SBC EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSIVITY STATEMENT
We operate a policy of equal opportunities and welcome applications from candidates irrespective of sex, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin or disability.
- Please note that given the short-term nature of these contracts at SBC and the duty of care we have to our students, holiday will only be authorised in exceptional circumstances and must be requested at least one month prior to taking leave. At the end of your contract, you will receive a payment for any holiday you are owed. If you take any holiday during your contract, then this will be deducted from your holiday allowance.