No10 Senior Photographer
| Posting date: | 14 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £44,500 to £48,243 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 August 2024 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 365997/1 |
Summary
This role offers an experienced photographer an exciting new challenge, playing a critical role in capturing the daily activities of the Prime Minister, cabinet ministers and events in 10 Downing Street.
Your work will be seen by millions of people and has the potential to make a huge impact on their lives. Through visual story telling your work will help communicate the government’s key messages and will cover events at the forefront of the news agenda.
You will promote the work of ministers and the wider government visually, helping to stop the scroll and grab the attention across 10 Downing Street social media channels.
You will need to come up with creative ways of telling the stories of how the work of government impacts people’s lives and simplifying complex policies to cut through with the general public.
You will work with a range of internal and external stakeholders including ministers, press officers and Special Advisors.
About you
You are a talented Photographer - with a portfolio to match and experience working in media, whether in news, television, sports, social media, PR, or a similar role.
You are a creative, flexible and a self-starter, able to work independently and use your initiative to make sure deadlines are met.
You have a solid understanding of how images work across different social media platforms work.
A good understanding of politics is desirable, although it is more important that you can translate complex communications into relatable digital content that people want to engage with, often within very short timescales.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Head of Digital Communications to ensure that we capture and promote the work of the Prime Minister and Ministers, as well as the government more widely through visual means.
- Take the lead on capturing imagery during domestic and overseas visits, ensuring imagery is of a high quality.
- Develop and manage relationships with press officers, special advisers, private office and events teams to ensure that imagery and digital content is an integral part of all media planning.
- Play a leading role in upskilling the digital communications community across government, working with other Heads of Digital to ensure consistent high standards.
- Maintaining the Prime Minister’s photographic Archive.
- Manage junior members of the team and upskill them in photographic best practise.