Photographer - Office of Communications & Marketing - UTK

Knoxville, TN (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

A Photographer role at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, centers on creating brand-consistent visuals, planning shoots, and collaborating with campus partners. Requirements emphasize strong photography skills, editing, metadata, and digital asset management, with higher education experience preferred. The position offers a competitive benefits package and requires coordinating across multiple teams to support university communications.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Works with the manager of photography, art directors, and other team members across the division to ensure consistent adherence to the university's brand guidelines and visual identity in all photography assignments.
  • Makes technical and creative decisions about which angles, positions, times of day/year, and equipment would best achieve goals of the assignment.
  • Orchestrates photo shoots, including managing the environment and timeline.
  • Takes photographs on location and in the studio.
  • Stays current with latest photography trends, styles, and techniques.
  • Networks with campus partners to find story and visual ideas to generate content in support of internal and external communication and marketing goals.
  • Assists manager of photography for high profile, high production shoots.
  • Edits, manipulates, and alters images with industry standard photo editing software to ensure best possible photographs are produced and delivered.
  • Uses industry standard software to ensure proper and appropriate metadata is embedded in all images.
  • Archives photographs in the university's digital asset management (DAM) system.

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