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African Art E-commerce Company seeks Photographer/Generalist (Park Hill)
JOB DESCRIPTION: Photographer for eCommerce - Denver, CO
We are an affirmative action employer...and love having a diverse staff. Africa Direct is a 31-year-old home-based business. (Deceptive -- the basement where the inventory is, is huge.) We have a small staff. We are eBay's biggest seller of African Art, ethnic jewelry, and trade beads.
Our website is www.africadirect.com
We are great advocates of eBay Giving Works charity auctions and have contributed more than $175,000 to causes we believe in, through them. We have no “bricks and mortar” store. Our sales are virtually 100% internet-based, and we sell worldwide. Our eBay feedback is more than 60,000. This is a fairly big little business. The art is fascinating and varied-masks, carvings, textiles, baskets, beadwork, clay, metal, beads, and ethnic jewelry.
We buy from more than 100 African traders, who come to our driveway from both coasts. We are one of the biggest eBay sellers in Colorado. We seek a long-term person who will be a joy to work with. The biggest responsibilities will be packing, product photography, Adobe Photoshop/Lightroom, listing on Shopify and other platforms, order pulling, and customer service, plus a wide range of other duties requiring decent writing and computer skills.
In a small company such as this, some of the division of work depends on the interests and skills of the people we hire. One former staff member (now runnio9ng a Manhattan gallery after getting her MFA in New York) ) spent some of her time here as the second author of a book on Yoruba art, which we published.
**Overview:**
Duties:
* Order pulling and packing
Customers often often combine orders from ebay, etcsy and our website, international shipping poses its own challenges, and our inventory of more than 20,000 items is daunting.
* Physical labor!
Carvings, masks, etc need to be carried up and downstairs, the annual (ugh!) physical inventory involves loads of moving. It’s not unusual to be up and downstairs, carrying loads, ten times a day.
* Photography
We've come a long way from our first few years of using natural light on the dining room table. We have a studio (OK, it shares a room with inventory and the washer and dryer, but still) and generally "shoot" about 50 objects with 1-200 total images a day.
* Adobe Photoshop
Images need to be cleaned, cropped, tweaked, uploaded, stored, with the right photo codes applied to labels on the objects and a final "quality control" done to ensure color match, etc.
* Listing..the lifeblood of the business...
Our politics are liberal. The dress code is casual. Lunch is generally a sandwich you bring, but if you prefer a real lunch hour, that's fine; just adjust your hours worked accordingly to accommodate it. Full-time, Monday-Friday, 7 am - 3 pm. Workweeks are generally 40 hours, but we need someone willing to work a bit more when we have a huge order to assemble, owners are traveling, containers arrive from Africa, or I buy 100 pieces in the driveway from an African collector at 2:00, and rain is threatening!
Compensation: $20 per hour to start, review within 6 months, health insurance, dental available, sick time, and vacation earned. If this sounds like something that you would like, please email us and tell us a bit about yourself. Please include a cover letter and resume.
Elizabeth Bennett
Owner
Benefits:
Dental Insurance
Employee discount
Health insurance
Vacation
2891 Kearney St, Denver, CO 80207, USA
$20/hour
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