At KU Marketing, we tell the world how the University of Kansas inspires Jayhawks to their full potential, fuels discovery and ambition, revels in the tradition-rich Jayhawk spirit, and cares for our students, our state, and the greater good. Our strategic, creative team focuses its expertise on meeting recruitment and brand-development objectives. We find stories of curiosity, resolve, and triumph from the KU community, and we share those with prospective students of many ages and interests. We help define every day what it means to be a Jayhawk—and we know that crimson and blue will look good on you.

The photographer produces photographs that support KU's communication and marketing goals and portrays the University as vibrant, diverse, and supportive. Responsibilities include setting up shoots, initiating new projects, shooting, editing, record keeping and related activities.

The photographer works independently setting up shoots, producing exceptional photography at all hours of the day, and supports Marketing objectives to improve recruitment efforts at the University of Kansas.

If you are looking for a rewarding and dynamic career, look no further than the University of Kansas. In addition to a competitive salary, KU offers great benefits to employees with up to 176 hours of paid vacation per year, 96 hours of sick leave earned per year, 9 paid holidays plus one discretionary day, a great retirement program, medical and dental insurance, life and disability insurance, other benefit plan options and state of Kansas discounts offered by various vendors. KU also offers employees educational opportunities for employees. KU is a great place to work!

About Lawrence, KS

The University of Kansas is located in Lawrence, a community of about 95,000. Only 35 miles west of Kansas City and 20 miles east of Topeka, you will never be far from barbecue, jazz, museum culture, and more. Lawrence has a lively downtown and a thriving arts and music scene, and its local government has enacted ordinances supporting equality for all members of its population. Lawrence locals covet the numerous sports and recreational opportunities, local shops, and a wide range of locally-owned restaurants.

40% Produce photographs

• Produce photographs that support KU’s communication and marketing goals and portray the University as vibrant, diverse, and supportive.
• Research photo ops, scouting locations, prepping equipment for fieldwork, and restoring communal equipment.

30% Editing Routinely

• Edit, re-name, serialize, embed (meta-data), and deposit raw format image files in a timely manner.
• When photographing speeches, press conferences, performances, and events, provide color-corrected jpegs of the very best frames for immediate Web posting. For daytime events, deliver by 9 a.m. on the following day. For nighttime events, deliver by noon of the following day. In special circumstances or emergencies, quicker turn-around will be required and will be decided on an event-by-event basis.
• Whenever possible, color-correct and widely distribute a very few of the very best frames immediately, to pre-empt the arrival of galleries of un-corrected proofs.

20% Creative Planning and Strategy

• Contribute to the strategic, conceptual, stylistic direction for campaigns based on client objectives, understanding core constituencies, maintaining the University brand, and utilizing creative expertise to ensure top quality communications.
• Work toward office-wide recruitment goals to determine the best creative strategy to reach key objectives.

10% Other duties

• Attend staff and client meetings.
• Plan, strategize, trouble-shoot and review needs and solutions for wide range of clients.
• Work collegially with staff and clients in a team environment.
• Occasional preparation of cost estimates, shooting agendas, and job status reports.
• Provide in-house expertise for editing/color-correcting image files and for effective use of industry software.
• Provide photo selects to and occasionally maintain photography for social media sites.
• Occasionally, conduct file searches for clients/staff and prepare duplication orders to outside vendors.
• Occasionally, scan file negatives or optimize image files for rush jobs, when part-time scanning technician is absent.

• Some evening and weekend hours required.
• This position is hybrid. Incumbent works on-site and remote based on a set schedule.

• Associate’s Degree in photography or relevant field PLUS three (3) years of full-time experience producing professional photographs.
• Excellent written communication skills, as evidenced by application materials.

• Experience using the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience with color correction.
• Experience with high-resolution image management.
• Experience producing digital photographs for institution of higher learning, non-profit or charitable foundation.
• Experience in reportage style photography as well as stylized, art-directed shoots.
• Customer service experience.
• Experience multi-tasking in deadline driven environment.
• Experience trouble shooting/solving problems.
• Project management experience.

A complete online application includes:

• Cover letter addressing how you meet the required qualifications.
• Resume.
• Contact information for three professional references (including at least one previous or current supervisor).
• A link to an online portfolio with samples demonstrating professional photography skills and techniques.

• Application review begins Tuesday, May 2, 2023 and continues until a pool of qualified applicants is identified.

Tim Seley, timseley@ku.edu

$50,000 - $52,000, final determination commensurate with experience

Monday - Friday, 8 am - 5 pm. Some evening and weekend hours required.

Tuesday May 2, 2023

Monday June 5, 2023

Apply to Job