Photography Apprentice – Houston Astros

Department: Marketing and Communications

Supervisor: Manager, Photography

Classification: Part-time/Non-exempt 

The Photography Apprentice position will help the Manager of Photography and the Team Photographer with enterprise initiatives, video games, and occasions all through the time period of the apprenticeship. The objective is to offer an area to study from an skilled content material group throughout the Marketing workforce and develop each technically and throughout the workplace house. Opportunities to work arms on with gameday duties, occasion protection, and the archiving processes together with different initiatives all year long.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Reasonable lodging could also be made to allow people with disabilities to carry out the important capabilities.

• Assist with the archive keywording course of, photographing activations, group occasions, studio tasks and sport days.
• Fulfill sport day wants together with occasions earlier than and after video games.
• Live enhancing throughout video games to transmit to mandatory stakeholders.
• Participate in manufacturing shoots at Daikin Park and presumably off-site.
• Performing different duties assigned by the Content Director and Photography Manager because the place modifications all year long.
• Performs different associated duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• At least two years of faculty or relevant pictures and enhancing expertise, ideally inside sports activities or occasion protection.
• Experience throughout the Adobe Creative Suite – particularly Lightroom and Photoshop.
• Familiarity with PhotoShelter or one other Digital Asset Management instrument.
• Excellent written and verbal communication expertise to collaborate with stakeholders and workforce members.
• Baseball information is required.
• Flexibility and willingness to work prolonged hours, evenings and weekends.
• High degree of demonstrated professionalism, integrity and decorum.
• Creative, energetic and proactive strategy to work.
• Ability to anticipate and make suggestions primarily based on the wants of supervisor and/or mission
• Strong relationship constructing expertise.
• Innovative and proactive thinker.
• Game day duties required.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Work Environment

This job operates in an workplace, clerical setting. This position routinely makes use of normal workplace tools akin to computer systems, telephones, and photocopiers.  The noise degree is normally average however will be loud throughout the stadium setting.

Physical Demands

The bodily calls for described listed here are consultant of people who have to be met by an worker to efficiently carry out the important capabilities of this job. This is a largely sedentary position. Specific imaginative and prescient talents required by this job embody shut and targeted imaginative and prescient.

While performing the duties of this job, the worker is recurrently required to see and listen to.  The worker is required to sit down for lengthy intervals of time, use arms/fingers to make the most of numerous digital platforms.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

Ability to work a versatile schedule, together with prolonged hours, evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Travel

Rare journey possibly anticipated on this position.

Other Duties

Please word this job description shouldn’t be designed to cowl or include a complete itemizing of actions, duties or duties which might be required of the worker for this job. Duties, duties and actions might change at any time with or with out discover.

We are an equal alternative employer and all certified candidates will obtain consideration for employment with out regard to race, coloration, faith, intercourse, nationwide origin, incapacity standing, protected veteran standing, or some other attribute protected by legislation. 

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