Volunteer Learning and Community Events Photographer
Role Description
Role Title: |
Volunteer Learning and Community Events Photographer |
Role Summary: |
Alexandra Park & Palace Charitable Trust (APPCT) are looking for someone with a passion for taking photographs to capture images for our website and promotional material showing groups engaging with guides and the history of the Palace during the History Tours of the Palace - Saturday, 12th & Sunday, 13th April. It is hoped the Photographer will also be able support the Learning and Community team with future events. |
Organisation |
Alexandra Palace is a Grade II listed north London landmark built in 1873 as a leisure facility on a grand scale. During the First World War the Park and Palace were used to house Belgian refugees and enemy aliens before becoming the home of the BBC between 1935 and 1981. Alexandra Palace is setting out long term regeneration plans which both promote its heritage and widen public access to the most historically significant areas of the Park and Palace. As part of the wider plans our learning team now deliver cross curricular primary and secondary school workshops which both celebrate its rich heritage whilst enriching the national curriculum. Our programmes engage with audiences of different ages and abilities and celebrate the Park and Palace’s eclectic history through interactive and engaging workshops, art & craft activities and guided tours. |
Outline of tasks: |
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Commitment: |
We are looking for volunteers to commit to minimum of one day per event advanced notice will be given. For the purpose of supporting the History Tours for April the applicant would need to be free on either 12th/13th April. |
Reports to: |
Head of Learning and Community Programmes |
Skills, Qualifications and Personal Qualities Required (Essential): |
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Skills, Qualifications and Personal Qualities Required (Desirable) |
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Standards of behaviour: |
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What could you get out of volunteering with us: |
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How will you be helping us: |
This volunteer role will enable us to improve the service we provide to the local community whilst providing a high quality customer service and information to enhance their experience. |
Notes: |
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Next steps |
To apply please send a CV, examples of work and what interests you about the role, with the subject header Photographer to volunteering@alexandrapalace.com |
Closing date |
Wednesday, 9th April 2014 |
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Scroll to the end of this post for an example of what can happen if you get someone in who 'takes good pictures'. Mostly I feel so sorry for the photographer in this case, as they must have wanted to disappear into a hole in the ground and never emerge when they saw what they had done.
Missing from that impressive job description is the list of equipment this volunteer is expected to handle. I presume the Trust will supply them with the range of kit needed to successfully complete a job like this, with plenty of allowance for contingencies. A couple of SLR bodies, a range of lenses, flash, tripod?, lights? and a decent PC with appropriate legal software - the sort of kit a freelance is expected to provide within the day rate for a job. Can you let us know what's on offer please, and who will be providing the training on how to use it?
Yes, this is the second time that AP has recently asked for volunteers as opposed to offering an apprenticeship or a short-term contract.
Ally Pally needs loads of building work done. I see loads of builders hanging around outside Wickes whenever i shop there. Shall I ask them if they fancy going and doing a day's work in exchange for lunch? Win-win surely? Oh, but they are used to working for money. But they will be so grateful for the chance to enhance their portfolio, surely? That will keep their children fed.
At page 28 Appendix 13.3 within the report to the board of trustees last year
there is a proposed "Volunteer strategy and Policy for Alexandra Palace", not yet adopted as far as I know.
Thanks SC, that's helpful. Perhaps what reading that did for me was to contrast the spirit of that policy with what may well come across as a rather different spirit to the one in this volunteer request.
Perhaps this volunteer request comes across as somewhat more of a job ad seeking the highest possible skills, the most skilled photographer - which perhaps slants the feel to more of a 'what can you do for us and are you good enough to help us', in the same way that an employer would be seeking someone.
In contrast, the policy gives more of a sense of there being great mutual gain from the volunteering contract with a genuine focus on volunteer development in exchange for time.
I know there's a section in the ad on What could you get out of volunteering with us, but job ads also have a section like this and somehow it does little to dispel the spirit of the document as a whole being a precursor to the formation of an unequal contract where the contractee must be good enough to deliver a service to the contractor.
Whether this sense I get is the result of a certain style of communication or a genuinely different motivation to the one suggested by the policy, I am unclear.
What pushed my buttons so much here is indeed the style of the job description. It reads exactly like the sort of contract i have had in the past from Haringey, which would need to be negotiated before a (one-off, freelance) job, plus details of the agreed fee, at NUJ day rates.
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