Standard Job Description

A standard job description describes work at a high level and connects UW job titles to similar job titles in the market. It is a general set of responsibilities, without regard to any specific employee, that describes the work an employee performs and their role and impact to the organization.

Salary information for jobs outside of salary ranges 15-35 is located on the UW System Compensation Appendices webpage.

Title Details
Job TitlePhotographer
Job CodeCM019
Scaled JobNo
Salary Grade18
Family NameCommunications and Marketing
Sub Family NameMultimedia and Design
Job Overview
Job SummaryPlans, composes, captures, and edits photographs on behalf of the institution and its members, and makes visual content available for institutional projects, programs, and units.
Job Responsibilities
  • Schedules logistics and secures resources for photographic sessions to meet objectives according to established requirements and desired effects
  • Composes, processes, and edits photographs in various mediums utilizing specialized equipment and expertise
  • Adheres to institutional brand standards, guidelines, and policies regarding acceptable editing practices and uses of photographic visual assets
  • Serves as in-house expert on the effective use of photographic visual assets for advancing the goals of the institution, unit, and/or program
Additional Information
Employee CategoryAcademic Staff (AS)
Supervision RequiredNo
FLSA ExemptExempt
Education*Associate's Degree - Preferred Minimum
FLSA Threshold Exemption

*All preferred education can be fulfilled with comparable experience, unless education is listed as required for the job.

Scaled Jobs in the Library

The title and salary structure continues the idea of creating additional job titles for some jobs found systemwide or university-wide based on a small, medium, and large designation. We call this scaling. If there is a scaled job available, universities should choose that job for their employees.

  • Scaling is not title progression.
  • Scaling is a type of further refining the market pricing for a job.
  • For example,

    Title

    TTC Title

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/L

    Athletics Assoc Dir

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/M

    Athletics Assoc Dir (B)

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/S

    Athletics Assoc Dir (C)

Key

Institution Scale
System A – no ( )
Milwaukee A – no ( )
Eau Claire (B)
La Crosse (B)
Oshkosh (B)
Platteville (B)
Stevens Point (B)
Stout (B)
Whitewater (B)
Green Bay (C)
River Falls (C)
Parkside (C)
Superior (C)

Scale is based on the size and budget of a university.

(Inst)

(Inst) typically designates institution-wide or systemwide scope and a non-institution version of the same job title typically indicates use at a School/College/Division/Department-level.

Minimum Education Requirements

The minimum preferred education represent the systemwide shared minimum elements of each job description. When posting for an open position, universities can add additional requirements or preferences to their specific recruitment.