Club Photographer

Fulham Football Club is looking for a Club Photographer to support all club departments with photography and content.

This role will offer full-time support to the content and marketing teams as well as the broader organisation, delivering high-quality photography across men’s and women’s first teams, Academy, marketing and fan engagement events, as well as commercial activities. The successful will be responsible for expressing the Club’s brand and narrative through visual documentation.

The Club Photographer will be responsible for the preparation of shoots – including logistics concerning staging, subjects and location scouting – as well as editing and retouching of imagery, and management of assets. Where necessary, the role will also lead on liaision with outsourced agencies for additional photographic support.

Responsibilities

The Club Photographer must:

• Have an excellent can-do attitude
• Be a good communicator
• Have excellent creative skills
• Be willing to work as part of a team
• Be able to prioritise work and meet deadlines
• Have strong organisational and planning skills
• Have excellent time keeping
• Take initiative when working alone
• Be proactive
• Experience working with all Microsoft applications, Adobe Creative Cloud and photo editing programmes
• Ability to deal with high profile individuals
• Able to work flexibly in line with football season demands
• Knowledge of the football industry would be advantageous

Requirements

The following is a non-exhaustive list of the responsibilities of the role:

• Cover select Men’s, Women’s, and academy training sessions and matches
• Working predominantly with the Communications and Marketing departments on photo requirements.
• Possess essential photographic equipment
• Ensuring photos meet the Club’s brief in terms of images captured, tone and brand style.
• Working matchdays across all teams
• Liaising with other departments across the Club regularly on their requirements
• Proactively contributing to editorial and content planning meetings
• Preparing for shoots and developing comprehensive briefs
• Edit and grade imagery as appropriate, at times needs to work under tight turnarounds
• Management of photography – in-house or external – to ensure imagery is catalogued and readily accessible for departments and players

This role requires a commitment to working flexibility in line with the football calendar – i.e. matches on Saturday, Sunday, midweek evenings & various club events throughout the season. This role will also require a level of independent working at times.

Benefits

We expect to close applications on 22 September, but if we receive a high level of interest, we may close the vacancy sooner. To avoid disappointment, please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.