Assistant Photo Editor, Temp

New York Post; New York (NY); On-site; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

401(k) plan

Child care support

Job summary

The New York Post seeks a Temporary Photo Researcher for its Alexa Magazine team, focusing on luxury lifestyle trends. Responsibilities include curating images, managing databases, and supporting photo shoots. Ideal candidates have a passion for fashion and strong research skills with at least 2 years of experience.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience in a multi-platform media brand.
• Excellent news judgment with knowledge of luxury fashion and entertainment.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Curate images spanning celebrity, fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle.
• Source images and negotiate licensing agreements.
• Support Photo Editor with shoot production tasks.

Skills

Time Management

Visual Storytelling

Research Skills

Collaborative

Multi-tasking

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Google Docs

Wordpress

Airtable

Job description

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Base pay range

$25.00/hr - $35.00/hr

The New York Post provides readers with the best in News, Sports, Pop Culture, and Entertainment – with signature wit, irreverence, and authority averaging 90 million unique monthly viewers. Over the past 224 years, The Post has evolved into a multi-platform media company spanning print, digital, video, audio, app, television, and commerce.

The New York Post is currently seeking an experienced FT (10AM-6PM M-F) Temporary Photo Researcher to to support its Alexa Magazine team. Alexa is published 10+ times a year in an upscale broadsheet format and inserted into the New York Post, Alexa showcases luxury lifestyle trends and celebrity exclusives.

The ideal candidate has a passion for fashion, luxury, lifestyle and entertainment. They have a keen eye for visual storytelling and vast knowledge of current events in the industry.

We're looking for a highly motivated focused individual who can juggle multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously. We place a very strong emphasis on time management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks by urgency and time to completion. An editorial background is preferable. A self-starter mindset is essential.

The position is 5 days/week starting in August through December

Note: This is NOT a photography based role. This is a desk-based support position.

Responsibilities include:

• A precise technical quality and visual presentation of images and information
• Curate images spanning celebrity, fashion, entertainment and lifestyle
• Source images from various sources (photo agencies, publicists, archives, online databases, cold calls), negotiating licensing agreements, and managing image databases
• Promptly process and deliver a large #s of images with the utmost efficiency to our cross functional teams - this includes but is not limited to batch resizing, renaming or logging thorough metadata within the files for others to utilize
• Effectively prepare images for the digital grid with metadata; create project folders, maintain and re-organize accordingly as we progress
• Support the Photo Editor with shoot production on an administrative level, as follows:
• Facilitate catering and car services
• Provide direct support on photoshoots in a Production Assistant capacity, including but not limited to coffee runs, miscellaneous pickups and arriving first to set
• Gather + format crew credits for print; handles for social
• Maintain Google Docs to support Photo Editor and team: spreadsheets, callsheets, decks, drives, shared asset deliveries + credits, and so on
• Collect all photo credits for Print Issues, ensuring accurate spelling and notation for their placement on page; actively monitor photos and credits on the print layouts from beginning to end
• Ability to communicate clearly and punctually with the team on a daily basis, keeping track of varied conversations, updates and adjustments happening simultaneously and on varying platforms

The ideal candidate has:

• At least 2 years of experience with a multi-platform media digital/print brand
• Excellent news judgment with knowledge of luxury fashion, news, entertainment and lifestyle
• Collaborative, solution-oriented, and energized by industry breaking news
• Strong research skills, knowledge of image licensing, and ability to work with digital asset management systems, newsgathering and social media tools
• Keen ability to multi-task, and independently problem solve: if something is not readily available, how else are you able to source it
• Self starter attitude; intuitively pursue out-of-the-box resources, research and fact-check your work frequently
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment under pressure
• Adobe Photoshop, Photo Mechanic, CHP (Photo Grid), Google Docs, Wordpress, Airtable

At The New York Post we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, our ranges reflect our good faith estimate to pay fairly as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

In addition to compensation, the company provides eligible employees a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including “elective” benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

As an equal opportunity employer, the New York Post does not discriminate in hiring or the terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The New York Post will consider the provision of reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental disabilities of otherwise qualified applicants to enable them to participate in our application process and to effectively perform the essential functions of the job, unless doing so would impose an undue financial or operational hardship.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Temporary

Job function

• Job function

  Production, Public Relations, and Administrative

• Industries

  Media Production, Writing and Editing, and Photography

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