New York, NY - Media Consultant, Worldwide Communications

Job Description:

• Manage physical collection and electronic database of contemporary and historical photographs and other graphics owned by the company
• Maintain subject releases for photos, whenever relevant
• Assist members of the media seeking photographs or video for print, television, video, and internet use
• Work with graphic designers, filmmakers, web designers, publishers, and writers seeking images for a variety of internal and external communications and marketing projects
• Assist users of the online version of the company’s Photo Archive
• Work with the company’s Legal to obtain permissions for use of an image by outside parties, as appropriate
• Receive new images and upload image files to online database; append relevant, searchable text data to these files
• Select and purchase images from stock agencies as needed
• Act as liaison between photographers and project managers who commission photography for a specific use, as needed: book photographers; schedule Studio shoots; relay resulting images from photographer to appropriate colleagues
• Assist colleagues who need help utilizing photos/placing them in communications pieces in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, etc.
• Create a weekly compilation of all the company’s stories using InDesign; send PDF version to Board Relations for distribution to BoD
• Work with outside photo lab to create prints, scans, etc., for colleagues as needed
• Work with outside video lab to duplicate or reformat videos for colleagues as needed
• Scan photographs as needed

REQUIREMENTS:

• Undergraduate Degree Required
• Candidate should have extensive knowledge of photo file formats and functionalities and a basic knowledge of video formats
• Candidate should be familiar with traditional photo media (negatives, prints, 35 mm slides, transparencies, internegs) and moderately experienced in handling/working with them

Candidate should be comfortable in:

• Database management
• Using FTP sites to send and retrieve data
• The Microsoft Office Suite
• Adobe PhotoShop
• Adobe Acrobat Professional
• Adobe InDesign

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