Job Title: Lead Photographer
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Compensation: £38,018.26 + Benefits (Full Time Salary of 40 hours)
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67941
Capture the Extraordinary – Frame the Future
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Lead Photographer at our Shawbury site, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
The role
As our Lead Photographer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of documenting life in the RAF, from ceremonial events and graduations to technical photography and PR campaigns. This is a rare opportunity for you to highlight the RAF by using Social Media platforms to combine creative storytelling with a meaningful mission, supporting defence operations and showcasing the incredible work of our armed forces.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Capturing high-quality photography and videography at RAF events, engineering incidents, and official ceremonies
- Managing and maintaining image libraries and digital content systems
- Editing and enhancing images to meet professional standards and creative briefs
- Liaising with stakeholders to ensure media is cleared and compliant for publication
- Supporting aerial photography tasks, including emergency response documentation
This role is full time, working between 32 – 40 hours per week (hours to be discussed) based onsite at Shawbury.
Essential experience of the Lead Photographer:
- Passionate and dynamic individual with a strong creative eye
- Proven ability to produce engaging content for social media and PR
- Skilled in digital photography and videography across various formats
- Confident working independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
Qualifications for the Lead Photographer:
- Full UK Driving Licence
- You’ll either have completed Defence Photographer (CN5300) Phase 2 training at the Defence School of Photography (DSOP), with Phase 3 training in Digital Video Professional Techniques (DVPT) and Defence Media Operations Photography (DMOP), or be able to demonstrate suitable and appropriate civilian equivalents
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 08/10/2025
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