Photo Operations Coordinator

TA001 Tennis Australia Limited; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Tennis Australia is seeking an experienced photography desk coordinator to support the Australian Open and Summer of Tennis. You will work with the Photography Manager and team to coordinate briefs, ensure accurate, timely imagery and deliver across operational, marketing, commercial and media needs.

This role oversees up to 40 freelance photographers, manages over 1,000 briefs, and helps caption, keyword and archive images while maintaining confidentiality and high editorial standards.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years’ experience on a photo desk in a sports body, agency or news media.
• Strong knowledge of photography workflows and asset management.
• Experience managing and delivering photography briefs.
• Excellent editorial skills, particularly in photo captioning.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong administrative capability.
• Ability to exercise sound judgement and perform under pressure.
• Experience within sport, media or event environments.
• Knowledge of tennis, players and the Australian Open.
• A collaborative, proactive and solutions-focused approach to work.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage photography briefs from stakeholders, ensuring requirements are accurate, clearly defined and successfully delivered.
• Work closely with the Photography Manager to support the delivery of captioned and keyworded imagery.
• Coordinate photographers and photo editors to ensure comprehensive event coverage across editorial, marketing and partnership requirements.
• Assist with image categorisation, archiving and digital asset management.
• Caption and keyword images for Tennis Australia's online archive and support quality control processes.
• Manage image uploads and workflows within content management systems.
• Adapt to changing priorities and photography requirements throughout the tournament period.
• Identify and suggest content themes, galleries and storytelling opportunities aligned to daily event activity.
• Maintain the highest levels of accuracy, organisation and confidentiality in all aspects of the role.

Skills

Photo desk coordination

Stakeholder management

Editorial captioning

Image asset management

Deadline pressure

Sports knowledge

Tennis Open knowledge

Collaborative approach

Tools

Content Management Systems

Job description

About the Role

As part of the Tennis Australia Photography team, this role supports the delivery of world-class photography services across the Australian Open and Summer of Tennis events. Working closely with the Photography Manager and photo team, the position is responsible for coordinating and managing photography briefs from across Tennis Australia, ensuring key stakeholders receive high-quality, timely imagery to meet their operational, marketing, commercial and media requirements. The Australian Open and Summer of Tennis photography operation is one of the largest sporting image services in Australia, engaging more than 40 freelance photographers, managing over 1,000 assignment briefs, and producing in excess of 150,000 images each season. Images are distributed to a broad range of stakeholders including sponsors, players, media organisations and internal departments. The role plays a critical part in ensuring all imagery is delivered to the requested brief from each stakeholder.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Coordinate and manage photography briefs from stakeholders, ensuring requirements are accurate, clearly defined and successfully delivered.
• Work closely with the Photography Manager to support the delivery of captioned and keyworded imagery.
• Coordinate photographers and photo editors to ensure comprehensive event coverage across editorial, marketing and partnership requirements.
• Assist with image categorisation, archiving and digital asset management.
• Caption and keyword images for Tennis Australia's online archive and support quality control processes.
• Manage image uploads and workflows within content management systems.
• Adapt to changing priorities and photography requirements throughout the tournament period.
• Identify and suggest content themes, galleries and storytelling opportunities aligned to daily event activity.
• Maintain the highest levels of accuracy, organisation and confidentiality in all aspects of the role.

What We’re Looking For

You’ll bring:

• 3-5 years’ experience working on a photo desk within a sports body, agency or news media organisation.
• Strong knowledge of photography workflows and asset management systems.
• Experience managing and delivering photography briefs.
• Excellent editorial skills, particularly in photo captioning.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong administrative capability.
• The ability to exercise sound judgement, make decisions and perform under pressure.
• Experience within sport, media or event environments.
• Knowledge of tennis, players and the Australian Open.
• A collaborative, proactive and solutions-focused approach to work.

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of the Australian Open and Summer of Tennis, supporting the delivery of iconic moments seen by fans around the world. You’ll work alongside a passionate photography team, contribute to world-class sporting events and play a key role in ensuring stakeholders receive the imagery they need to tell the stories of the tournament.

Required Checks

Current Police Check, or willingness to obtain one. Current Working with Children Check, or willingness to obtain one.

We believe playing makes life better and we are always on the lookout to talented people to join our team and help us create a playful world through tennis. Even if we are not currently advertising the position that you are looking for today, we may be tomorrow. There are a number of ways that you can keep up-to-date with new opportunities as they happen.

As one of the biggest sporting organisations in Australia, it takes more than just tennis experts to keep things running at Tennis Australia, our state-based Member Associations and all our tennis events. We employ passionate people from various fields including: sports administration, coaching, media, legal, finance, information technology, marketing, sponsorship, people and culture, broadcast, events and ticketing. If you are looking to take the next step in your career and want to put your skills on display in the best game, why not show us what you’re made of? The ball is in your court!