Photographer

at  Summer Boarding Courses

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

ABOUT US

Founded in 2008, Summer Boarding Courses have united students from around the world through education. Delivering award-winning, future-focused courses that strike the perfect balance between academic and social enrichment.
Our courses unlock potential and ignite a spark for long-term success.
Our residential summer courses take place at some of the UK’s top boarding schools and university college campuses, including Eton College, Oxford University Colleges and Headington School. We carefully select our campuses to ensure that they provide the perfect environment for our students to live and study.
Over 15,800 students from 152 nationalities have been welcomed to study with us to date.
Whether it’s preparing for future studies, developing 21st–century skills or building confidence, the knowledge gained on an SBC course allows students to go forward and apply what they have learnt to other areas of their education and beyond; giving them the necessary skills to achieve their future goals.
The EL Gazette publishes a league table based on British Council inspections, and SBC have been ranked Number 1 from 2018 to 2023. We are very proud of this achievement and will continue to grow and develop our courses to offer students extraordinary experiences.
SBC is the only multi-campus summer school provider in the UK to have achieved a perfect 15/15 areas of strength by the British Council. A true hallmark of educational quality.

THE ROLE

SBC Photographers are an integral part of a successful summer. Your role will be to capture first-hand the full summer school or college 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.

MAIN DUTIES:

• 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.
• Ensure that on a daily basis you capture images that represent the academic, social and activity-based events so that we can showcase these to our families.
• Ensure that we represent all children throughout their 2-week course in our photography, organising and capturing large group shots.
• Work closely with the onsite content creator to capture relevant images for online content.
• 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)