Photo Digital Technician

Staff
- Union Job Category CUPE 116 Job Profile CUPE 116 Salaried
- Research Assistant /Technician 4 Job Title Photo Digital Technician Department Program Administration | Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory Compensation Range $5,770.00 - $6,270.00 CAD Monthly Posting End Date August 10, 2026

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Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date. Job End Date Ongoing At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Photo Digital Technician contributes to the instruction, practice, and research of photography for the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory (AHVAT). Major responsibilities include:

• overseeing daily operations of photography facilities
• ensuring the safe use, maintenance, and supervision of photographic facilities and equipment, orienting students at all levels in studio, darkroom and digital imaging practices
• performance of highly skilled technical tasks requiring education, training and experience in the field of photography
• working collaboratively with colleagues to support delivery of the visual art curriculum with an emphasis on photography

The department is housed in several buildings at UBC Vancouver campus: the Frederic Lasserre Building, Auditorium Annex A, Wesbrook Building, B.C. Binning Studios, Dorothy Somerset Studios, and the Audain Art Centre. Based at BC Binning studios, the Technician interacts frequently with AHVA's Visual Art faculty, sessional lecturers, staff, undergraduate and graduate students.

• Oversees the operations of photographic facilities at BC Binning Studios
• Supervises darkrooms and maintains photography, film processing, darkroom, and computer digital lab imaging equipment, printers, scanners and work areas for student and faculty use
• Consults with individual course instructors on the technical and digital processes used in the design, development, and teaching of photography and lens-based media courses
• Supports the development of learning resources by initiating technical and digital processes for the design and delivery of courses
• Provides guidance and develops resources for faculty and sessional instructors to enable photographic and lens-based research, learning, and practice
• Prepares materials, chemicals, and equipment for demonstrations and practice
• Performs routine equipment maintenance and develops signage and usage guides
• Demonstrates studio photography, darkroom, and digital imaging techniques
• Demonstrates proper handling and use of photography equipment and digital imaging equipment
• Contributes to the development of safety standards through independent research and consultation with specialized resources
• Collaborates with colleagues to design equipment-handling and safety training for photographic facility and equipment users
• Ensures safety standards are met and complied with
• Is available outside of scheduled class time to assist students and faculty in photographic and imaging techniques
• Remains current with developments in photographic practices generally and with particular emphasis on photo digital applications, IT developments, related equipment and maintenance
• Researches and advises colleagues and students on new products and techniques in the areas of photography, digital imaging, and computer hard/software
• Arranges repairs of equipment when necessary
• Develops proposals for upgrades to photographic facilities and associated teaching and learning spaces
• Participates in ongoing reviews of long-term departmental instructional support needs and assists in coordinating applications for support
• Alerts Campus Security, Administration and/or Facilities Management immediately of core building concerns and/or security issues in the areas overseen
• Prepares budgets for areas overseen in collaboration with colleagues and faculty and on approval of the Administrator and Head
• Hires and manages student assistants to support facility and instructional needs
• Procures approved budgeted items, tracks expenditures, monitors stock inventories and cost recoveries, and work learn student staff hours, and meets periodically to review actuals with the Administrator and Manager
• Updates the online store and prepares receipts for photographic supplies and printing sales
• Reconciles purchases, according to established procedures, and submits to the department administrator
• Receives and safely stores supplies and equipment and maintains availability for distribution as required
• Manages and maintains the online equipment inventory
• Manages use of equipment from the equipment cage and photo digital supplies used by faculty and students, and supervises distribution and return of all equipment
• Photo documents departmental…