PHOTOGRAPHER (TEMP) | U-M Careers

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How to Apply

Please add a single doc that features your resume/CV and a quick cowl letter that outlines your particular curiosity within the place and the way your expertise and experiences instantly relate to this place.

Please additionally embody a hyperlink in your cowl letter or resume to a portfolio that includes your images, or add images as extra pages to your single uploaded doc.

An preferrred portfolio will showcase your creativity, robust composition expertise, a superb understanding of sunshine and the flexibility to seize robust moments. We are in search of expertise in portrait, editorial, occasion, and/or business/inventive images. Portfolio hyperlinks can go to a doc, a portfolio web site, or a social media profile (so long as it options solely your images). 

Job Summary

We are in search of a part-time photographer to affix and assist our staff from January 2026 by means of June 2026, working 20 hours per week. There is a risk of extending the place by means of December 2026, relying on efficiency and departmental funds.

The mode of labor for this place is hybrid, requiring a stability of in-person and distant work. We will work with the photographer to develop a schedule for this place, however some nights and weekends might be required.

As a photographer, you’ll work inside a collaborative staff inside the Michigan Engineering Office of Communications and Marketing (C&M), which incorporates different photographers and video producers, writers, designers, a social media staff, content material and advertising strategists, internet builders, and many others.

Individual shoots will typically be the only real accountability of the photographer, although you could be paired with a author or videographer occasionally. Assignments might are available in from our weekly pitch assembly, requests from different items across the College, or through different present tasks, tales or campaigns. Project administration and communication instruments are used day by day to maintain monitor of assignments and talk with staff members.

This place will report on to the Multimedia Manager at C&M.

Our staff’s present images collections might be discovered right here to your reference:
https://flickr.com/michigan-engineering
https://flickr.com/eng-portraits

Responsibilities*

• Capturing skilled, compelling images throughout quite a lot of assignments, together with:
  • Official college, employees or scholar portraits
  • Event protection, together with candid images and group photographs
  • Editorial-style protection of analysis developments, instructional improvements, or different college or scholar actions
  • Marketing-style photograph shoots
• Processing and modifying images and including required metadata
• Uploading and managing images inside a digital asset administration system
• Engaging with college, college students, employees, alumni, and different stakeholders inside assignments
• Maintaining a robust working data of images tools and modifying software program (Our workplace primarily makes use of Canon / Adobe / Photo Mechanic)
• Collaborate with different communications and advertising employees by means of in-person or hybrid conferences, Slack, Asana, Google Drive, e mail and different communication and challenge administration instruments

Position Breakdown:
85%    Taking, modifying and distributing images
15%    Team conferences, collaborating on tasks, speaking with teammates

Required Qualifications*

• 2+ years of related expertise in images inside a communications, advertising, journalism or associated area.
• Can set and handle priorities, deal with a number of assignments and deadlines, and function in a versatile, skilled method.
• Open to receiving and giving suggestions.
• Skilled utilizing quite a lot of images tools and software program, and in a position to adapt and study new instruments.
• Some flexibility in work schedule to accommodate occasional night or weekend assignments.

Desired Qualifications*

• An energetic driver’s license for the choice of journey to photograph shoots.

Modes of Work

Positions which are eligible for hybrid or cellular/distant work mode are on the discretion of the hiring division. Work agreements are reviewed yearly at a minimal and are topic to vary at any time, and for any cause, all through the course of employment. Learn extra in regards to the work modes.

Additional Information

• This is a short lived place by means of June, 31, 2026 with attainable renewal primarily based on funding extension.
• Physical Demands/Work Environment:
  • Routinely strikes audio/visible tools weighing as much as 50 kilos throughout campus for numerous classroom and occasion wants
  • Requires the flexibility to journey to numerous places to conduct work
  • May require work throughout early mornings, nights, and/or weekends.

Background Screening

The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent supply and should use a 3rd social gathering administrator to conduct background checks.  Background checks are carried out in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for at least seven calendar days.  The evaluation and choice course of might start as early because the eighth day after posting. This opening could also be faraway from posting boards and stuffed anytime after the minimal posting interval has ended.

U-M EEO Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal employment alternative employer.