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Contract:   Full time, Fixed Term 

Location:   London 

Salary:   £26,959 per annum 

Hours of work:  Full time - 36 hours per week

Closing Date:  22 June at midnight 

Interview date: 

Job   Description (max 500 words):   

Are you a photographer with an interest and commitment to providing technically accurate, high quality and engaging images in a cultural heritage setting?

Do you have relevant, professional experience with a thorough understanding of photography from lighting to colour management and file formats?

Would you feel equally comfortable shooting in a fully equipped studio as you would be covering a busy event across Tate’s Galleries? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Experience in printing & conservation imaging is advantageous but not required; you should be able to capably adapt and transfer your knowledge to new processes, paying meticulous attention to detail. You’ll manage your work from capture to upload, ensuring images are delivered at the highest standards and to specified deadlines.

This position is offered on a 2-year fixed-term contract. 

Successful candidates will have access to a range of benefits, including 25 days annual leave entitlement, rising to 27 days pro rata after 3 years of service; an extra day off for your birthday each year; a cycle to work scheme; opportunities for blended and flexible working; free access to Tate exhibitions and other museums and galleries; Life Assurance; and a ‘Defined Contribution’ pension scheme with generous employer contributions. Successful candidates who are already members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme or have recently left the scheme may be eligible to remain as members of this scheme instead.

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Contract:  Full-time

Location:  Based at IWM Duxford, but serving all IWM sites

Salary:  £25,530 pa

Hours of work:  Full time - 36 hours per week

Closing Date: 09:00 28th June 2022

Interview date: Online TBA

As a part of the Visual Resources team, the photographer provides high quality professional imaging services to internal and external markets. The scope of the work will range from high end capture of 2d and 3d objects in the studio, to providing creative and conceptual work to keep the Museum stock images current and contemporary. 

The role includes the covering of IWM events and press calls, which need immediate turn around for delivery to IWM social media channels as well as external press outlets.  

The photographer is responsible for all post processing of their imagery using the Adobe imaging products or similar software on Apple Mac machines and proactively manages the data they keep for storage on the Museums server structures.  The post holder has a flexible attitude to working patterns as some travelling and out of hours work (including weekends) is required.

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Contract:  Full-time

Location:  Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN  

Salary:  £33,282 - £37,972 per annum, inclusive of LWA

Hours of work:  Full time, though job sharing will be considered.

Closing Date: Friday 17 June 2022

Interview date: Friday 7 July 2022

The Courtauld Institute of Art is the UK’s leading institution for teaching and research in the history of art and the conservation of paintings and is also home to one of the finest art museums in the world. The Courtauld seeks to appoint a full-time Digitisation Database and Cataloguing Manager to support the activities in the final year of the NHLF funded project to digitise and publish online The Conway Library and associated collections.

Reporting to the Head of Digital Media, the responsibilities of the Digitisation Database and Cataloguing Manager will include: setting priorities for digitisation and levels of detail for descriptive metadata, ensuring that images are uniquely identified, taking responsibility for the digital asset management, collections management and web publishing aspects of the project, assisting our volunteers with digital image capture (principally digital photography on a copy stand), processing of image files, and assisting our volunteers with remote cataloguing tasks, such as managing our crowdsourced cataloguing partnership with Zooniverse.

The successful candidate will have demonstrable previous experience of large format digital photography, collections management systems, together with knowledge of museum documentation standards and procedures, and excellent IT skills. They will also have experience or knowledge of working with volunteers, or undertaking voluntary work themselves. The post-holder should also have good organisational and communication skills and the ability to work unsupervised.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Oversee training and produce training materials;
• Manage the setup of the digitisation studio and cataloguing working spaces;
• Create robust digitisation workflows for our collections;
• Research and advise on file formats and storage;
• Implement innovative technical solutions to support digital curation and preservation. Line manage the Digitisation Assistant. Carry out official appraisals, training and development in line with the Courtauld Institute’s procedures and practices;
• Develop roles and tasks available to the equivalent of 12 to 18 full-time volunteer posts onsite per day covering photography, cataloguing, quality assurance, image processing and transcription.
• Coordinate the development and maintenance of the technical infrastructure of systems and services used for the creation, management, display and preservation of digitised resources, including testing, managing and supporting new software and tools. Produce documentation and instructions as needed. Troubleshoot and liaise with vendors and relevant communities;
• Establish levels of cataloguing and metadata standards appropriate to each collection for efficient image retrieval;
• Commit to continuously improving our digitisation and cataloguing processes and undertake further training as required for the role;
• Map digitised collections to the new Content Management System and oversee metadata and image ingest. Act as point of contact with our CMS and Website provider;
• Monitor digitisation and cataloguing progress. Keep a risk register and flag appropriately to the Head of Digital Media;
• Develop licensing solutions with staff responsible for commercial licensing for capturing appropriate rights metadata and displaying material appropriately;
• Oversee internal and external stakeholder engagement, coordinating the blog and social media presence for the project;
• Assist in organising hackathons, workshops and events for volunteers and the general public.

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Contract:  Full-time

Location:  National Collections Centre (NCC) in Wroughton   

Salary:  £30,180 

Hours of work:  35 hours/week 

Closing Date:  Sunday 26th June (23:59) 

Interview date: TBA

Role

Science Museum Group (SMG) is here to inspire futures and our Collection Services department underpin the care and management of our unique objects. Within Collection Services, the Photography team provide a professional, technical, and creative service making digital content for a diverse range of clients and stakeholders within SMG.  We are now looking for a Photographer to join us and establish a professional photography studio and service at the National Collections Centre (NCC) in Wroughton. This role is a permanent contract, working 35 hours per week.

Working in the photographic studio, on gallery locations and offsite, you will create enhanced photography of collection objects, copy 2D material from the museum’s archives and create on-brand communications photography for external affairs. You will carry out post-production and apply metadata making images accessible through our Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) for all users.  

You will work seamlessly with the Picture Library team (SSPL) to service commercial and non-commercial requests for internal and external clients. Produce communications and events photography, closely following briefs for on-brand photography. Due to the nature of the objects you will be working with, you will collaborate with conservation, registration, and curatorial teams to uphold collections care procedures, and foster excellent workflows within the collections services department.

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