Generic Job Description Photographer II Grade C

Representative Duties:

Photographs objects, materials and human subjects to produce black and white and color prints.

Selects and arranges angle, lighting, background, and objects. Selects photographic methods, materials, and procedures.

Employs specialized photographic techniques and procedures to ensure specific result.

Prepares various exhibits and visual aids.

Maintains and performs basic repairs on photographic equipment.

Performs additional functions incidental to photographic activities.

Family: Technical Support
Job Code: 735 Date: 2/89

The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.

Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 735 Photographer Grade C

Required Knowledge:
Specialized college-level coursework; detailed but narrow knowledge in one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of broader fields of learning.
Extensive knowledge of craft or trade.
Limited acquaintance with business, accounting, or commercial procedures.
Limited acquaintance with University organizational policies and procedures.

Required Skills
Copies data from standard or easily understandable formats.
Uses a dictionary.
Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical or chronological system.
Screens complex, technical, or specialized literature for referral.
Writes simple internal memoranda, fills out complex forms.
Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including word processors or personal computers; responsible for basic troubleshooting and repair or manipulation of data using published software.
Performs one or several simple laboratory or scientific procedures that require some training, but that can be reversed or duplicated inexpensively; records results as necessary.

Office and Administrative Skills
Keyboards letters, memos, and other moderately complex material.
Enters and retrieves data from semi-finished source documents on a personal computer, requiring both some interpretation of the source documents and a basic understanding of software parameters.
Schedules and coordinates appointments.
Advises, screens and refers callers and visitors.

Experience, Education, and Formal Training
Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and high school level education; or two years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.

Complexity and Organization
Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes/methods.
Occasionally coordinates or organizes the work of others.

Interpersonal Relations
Ongoing involvement outside immediate unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general matters.
Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex answers that may take time to give.

Supervisory Guidelines
Work may or may not be reviewed.
Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or work of others based on the understanding of broadly defined objectives and priorities, supervisor reviews work after completion.
Instruction provided only in new situations, methods, procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.

Independent Judgment
Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by using established procedures.

Leadership Responsibility
Occasionally provides work guidance or orientation for non-routine procedures/policies.
Sometimes distributes and monitors work.

Impact and Consequence of Error
Work has a significant impact both on more than one department and outside the University.
Errors are somewhat difficult to recognize and correct and can cause harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or to other individuals and groups.

Working Conditions
Ongoing possibility of safety risks.
Occasional conflicting demands, time, pressures, deadlines, or emergencies.
Regular sustained concentration.
Some physical effort or dexterity.