Job Description - Respond to briefs from different functions within the MCCU team for photography requirements.
- Take creative, engaging, professional quality photos of people, places and events as and when required.
- Perform retouching and image adjustments after shoots.
- Share high quality, creative photographs with team members quickly and efficiently in appropriate formats for social and digital media, print media, corporate collateral etc.
- Manage approvals process to ensure all content has necessary authorisation.
- Respond to briefs from different functions within the MCCU team for video requirements.
- Produce and edit content for required media channels (mainly social media, website, intranet).
- Build and maintain strong relationships with local/regional/international media to support Masdar’s communications objectives.
- Work with outsourced agencies as required to meet videography needs.
- Manage approvals process to ensure all content has necessary authorization.
- Liaise with Masdar’s ICT to utilise & develop an efficient & effective media library solution for Masdar’s media assets.
- Develop and update media library of approved imagery and video.
- Manage access to media content & ensure it’s readily available on the intranet and website.
Skills Preferred Qualifications: - Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Marketing, Business Administration or related fields
Preferred Experience: - At least 3 - 4 years of photographic/videography experience or equivalent in a challenging media environment
Job-Specific Skills:
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Creative, with a good eye for a picture
- Reliable and able to meet tight deadlines, occasionally at short notice, in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
- Motivated and determined
- Excellent technical and photographic skills
- Excellent computer skills for appropriate software, e.g. Photoshop
- Excellent understanding of needs of social media
- Confident and capable of organizing groups of people, including senior representatives from government and business
- Able to listen and interpret the needs of internal clients
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple on-going projects
- Able to work outside regular office hours as required, including public holidays and weekends.
- Able to work in a dynamic fast-paced, diverse environment
Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple on-going projects.
