Photo Editor Weather

Academic Posting

Background

The Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) is the UK’s Professional and Learned Society for weather and climate and its mission is to promote meteorology as a science, profession, and interest.

RMetS publishes eight international science journals; Weather has been published monthly since May and is the 'house journal' of the Society, meaning that it is a free publication for our members. It is one of the main membership benefits and acts as a communication channel between the Society and its members. It is also read outside of our membership and publishes articles written for a broad audience, including those having a professional and a general interest in the weather, as well as those working in related fields such as climate science, oceanography, hydrometeorology and other related atmospheric and environmental sciences. It is a full colour, peer-reviewed journal, with a range of article types published to satisfy the interests of its wide readership.

The Role

The Photo Editor should ideally be someone who is a keen photographer, but also, importantly, someone with a good eye as to what makes a photograph suitable for inclusion in Weather – in terms of its quality and content. The candidate needs to be capable of working from a cloud database (Google Drive) and should also possess good communication skills when liaising with the editorial and publishing teams of Weather. Some experience of working with a digital photo editing platform would also be of use.

Main Responsibilities

1. Selecting one front cover image and three inside cover images for monthly issues of Weather (12 per year)

2. Selecting six photos (along a similar theme, if possible) for the photo page in seven of the twelve issues per year

3. Writing short captions to accompany the selected photos, based primarily on information provided by the photographer

4. Maintaining an online repository of photos: members submit photos by email – these are normally held in an online repository so that they can be considered for publication in future issues

5. Liaising with photographers when images are selected for publication – seeking permission to publish if not already given, and obtaining details for the caption if not already supplied with the image.

6. Sending images and captions to the publishers for preparation of each issue (normally this is done about two months in advance of publication, ideally by the first week of each month)

7. Attending Weather Board meetings (annual, remote)

There is also the possibility of acting as an occasional reviewer of manuscripts submitted to Weather and being a member of the judging panel for the Weather Photographer of the Year competition

This is a voluntary role and provides an opportunity to contribute to and influence the success of the journal, which can be very rewarding.

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