Junior Stills & Video Specialist
Junior Stills & Video Specialist
Apply locations Reading area time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: March 20, 2025 (11 days left to apply) job requisition id R27127
If you’d like to be considered for this opportunity we encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment as if applications are high the role will close before the closing date given.
We are looking for a Junior Stills and Video Specialist to join our team at AWE Nuclear Security Technologies. This is a lovely opportunity for someone recently qualified looking for their first role within this profession.
Salary range: £28,280 to £32,000
Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke
AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application. Please note that due to the nature of the work you will be doing, there is a significant requirement to be on site although no specific working pattern.
Introducing the role:
We require a junior photographer with a keen interest in capturing technical components as well as being able to create visual imagery across multiple platforms. Using both photography and videography to inform, engage and entertain internal and external audiences and support the company’s communications and marketing goals.
A typical day could look like this:
* Photographing and optimising a range of work across different genres
* Gathering and proposing ideas and topics for photographic/video content, ensuring appropriate, cost-effective approach is taken to capturing stills and video
* Working in designated hazardous and explosives areas
* Initiating production meetings for new projects
* Collaborating and networking with stakeholders across the business
* Preparing content for external and internal channels
* The job will involve travel to various and varied UK and overseas locations
We’d like you to have some of the following experience or qualifications:
* Proficient with stills cameras and knowledge of videography
* Some experience of setting up a shoot including lighting, sound and other technical requirements
* Editing using [Adobe] software
* Agile with multi-media formats including web and other digital mediums
We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point below, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.
Some reasons we think you’ll love it here:
* 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work.
* 270 hours holiday
* Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions)
* A truly meaningful role where your hard work impacts on our mission to keep the nation safe and secure.
Important things you need to know:
* There will be one interview on TEAMs during working hours with a presentation to showcase your skills and experience.
* If it’s a really tough decision after first interviews, we may request a second informal meeting.
We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during your recruitment journey. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations.
Next steps:
Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.
Important things you need to know:
* We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
* You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
* We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
* Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.
Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.
About AWE
If you’re looking for a role with excitement, intrigue and something that really makes a difference then now is the time to join AWE. We are at the start of a once in a generation – possibly two generations – programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects – some of which have never been done before. Find out more on our website.
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