Staff Photographer

Job Title: Staff Photographer

Location: Fort Worth, TX

Job Type: Full-time / Non-Exempt (hourly)

Department: Communications

Reports To: Creative Director

Date: 5/19/2026 Last Revision

Standard of Christian Commitment

The candidate must be a professing Christ follower who possesses a strong commitment to the mission and core values of Southwestern Seminary and Texas Baptist College, possess a clear understanding of Southern Baptist heritage and culture, and agrees to serve in accordance with and not contrary to the current edition of the Baptist Faith and Message.

Southwestern Seminary, an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, is a confessional institution. While the Seminary serves the larger evangelical Christian community, employees must embrace the values and standards the Seminary represents as it fulfills its mission of shaping Christian leaders within our denominational context.

Since duties of this position require the employee to represent the Seminary to prospective and current students, candidates must abide by the Seminary bylaws, the Employee Handbook, and the current edition of the Baptist Faith and Message as a condition of employment.

Job Description

Job Summary

The staff photographer at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is an organized, team-oriented candidate with photographic skills and creativity, to help promote the seminary, its mission and academic programs, to the world. The photographer helps plan, produce and implement a wide variety of highly creative and high-quality story-telling images of people, locations and events that showcase the distinctiveness of the school for use in marketing and promotional materials for websites, social media, printed and digital publications, advertising and other collateral.

Key Responsibilities

• Use originality, creativity, and imagination when collaborating with designers, videographers, editorial, web, social media teams to conceptualize and produce photos that support the goals and objectives of Southwestern Seminary.
• Ability to prioritize and self-manage photo projects, assignments, and stories given by the Creative Director, or other hierarchical superiors within the communications department. Adhering to project guidelines and deadlines, working within a fast-paced, quick-turnaround environment, while working alongside other part-time and full-time visual creatives within the same department, as well as working with other internal and external clients.
• Able to maintain the visual identity of Southwestern Seminary by creating photos that effectively communicate its desired message and supports the overall communication strategies of the seminary.
• Make artistic decisions regarding elements such as appropriate lighting, shooting angle, framing and placement when independently producing work that tells the story of the seminary.
• Be actively involved in the scheduling and coordinating of photo shoots and identifying people and locations for photo shoots. Perform photo editing, color correction, and archiving of created photography. Send photos when needed to be printed, to printer, and be able to pick them up and deliver.
• Ensure the safe and proper technical use and maintain good operational conditions of departmental equipment