You will join a tight-knit team of highly skilled photographers and will work alongside the video and design teams within the creative department of Defence Public Affairs (DPA). Your tasks will mainly support public affairs activities by documenting real-time activity or setting up scenes to meet a specific brief (such as recruitment collateral). You will attend ceremonies, military parades and sporting events to capture images for use online or by external agencies.

You’ll support digital media activity, processing your images quickly for use within our websites and social media channels. You will also be required to accurately caption and archive your work, recording detailed meta-data.

At times, you may work on more technical projects with other Defence Force units capturing, processing and presenting images that document technical component defects, equipment repairs and specifications for component and equipment modification. Your technical skills are also required to record aircraft and vehicle incidents, document evidence at fire and crime scenes, and capture medical and dental information.

You will be tasked with capturing our operational activity. As a result, you’ll need to maintain flexibility for frequent late night or early morning activity. You will respond at short notice to natural disasters and local emergencies showcasing the humanitarian aid and disaster relief provided by the NZDF. You will be required to photograph our personnel in the field and capture aerial images of the ground, other aircraft, ships and vehicles.

This role provides a unique opportunity to interact with members across the NZDF, of all ranks, trades and units. You will be trained in how the many and varied parts of the wider NZDF operate, and you will constantly need to effectively combine excellent communication, creative and technical skills in order to get the best results from within often challenging environments.

Operational images captured by Air Force Photographers are often released by the Defence Force to external media, so your work will be published both nationally and internationally.