OPPORTUNITIES
- School Photography Assistant - Fall 2021
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Fun Love Photography is a Boutique, Full-Service Portrait Studio specializing in helping discerning families create beautiful heirloom portrait artwork to enjoy in their home, gift loved ones and pass down to future generations.
Boutique School Photography is one of three main areas of focus for the business. It is:
- An elevated approach to School Picture Day
- Modern images, lighting and backdrops
- More time with every child
- Natural expressions and smiles
- A fun and personable experience for children
- A full-service, seamless experience for schools and childcare centres
Fun Love Photography offers Boutique School Photography for select private and preschool-level Toronto schools and childcare centres.
Fun Love Photography is looking for an enthusiastic, fun-loving, empathetic and detail-oriented person for a 3-month contract extending from mid-September to mid-December 2021, mainly to assist in preparing for, photographing, processing images and orders from, and providing customer service for a number of School Portrait contracts. Work will be paid hourly based on timesheeting and will vary from 6 hours per day in-person on shoot days and 2-4 hours remotely or in-person on non-shoot days, with some degree of flexibility. There is potential for ongoing and/or future work.
The candidate should:
- Be a great and empathetic communicator and problem solver.
- Be organized and VERY detail-oriented.
- Love working with children.
- Have a tireless sense of humour!
- A working knowledge of photography and photographic equipment is a bonus but not required.
The candidate must:
- Be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and be cheerfully willing to wear a mask and practice physical distancing and other preventative measures on shoot days and when working with the team.
- Be available to work relatively early mornings in various Toronto locations on shoot days, and to work remotely, or occasionally together with the team, on other days.
- Provide their own computer for their own use loaded with Excel (and working knowledge of it’s use). Having, and having working knowledge of, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, and Lightroom is a bonus.
- Be able to provide their own transportation when needed.
- Be willing to sign a confidentiality agreement.
The candidate will:
- Manage communications with school directors.
- Develop detailed, minute-by-minute shoot day schedules.
- Prepare and circulate handouts for schools and school parents.
- Attend all shoot days from early morning to early/mid-afternoons (weekdays only).
- Assist in loading and unloading, and setting up and striking, photographic backdrops, lighting equipment and tents.
- Assist in managing and editing images and liaising with retouching services.
- Train in, and use, online gallery software to manage customer sales.
- Provide meticulous, kind and empathetic customer service via email and phone.
- Manage, process and package customer orders.
- Assist in marketing to school parents and other schools.
- Be required to make occasional outings to print outlets, post offices, etc.
Pay will be $22-$25 per hour.
If you meet the requirements for this position, please apply. Please send your resume, and a letter explaining your interest and suitability for the position to heather@funlovephotography.com, using the subject line School Photography Assistant, by September 2nd, 2021.
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Thank you!