Highbury Media (Pty) Ltd is SA’s largest independent magazine and digital publishing company responsible for some of the country’s best-performing titles. We are currently looking for a recipe developer and food stylist for our Food department.

Are you skilled at creating recipes? Does food styling interest you? Do you want to excel in the exhilarating world of print and digital content creation? Have you gone to culinary school? Are you the kind of person that wakes up excited to eat breakfast? Do you live to eat? Then this is the position for you.

We look after a variety of award-winning magazines, ranging from focusing on full-blown delicious food trends to budget meals, fitness-inspired food and living a healthy life. We create all the food content and it is pure excitement.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Creating, testing and writing recipes 
• Keeping up to date with food trends 
• Assist senior food stylists on set 
• Creating briefs for internal and external clients 
• Propping for food shoots and videos 
• Styling food shoots and videos –
• Collaborate with the food team to organize shoots and create content
• Managing budgets and keeping within specific budgets 
• Tracking and handling invoices 
• Styling food on shoots, in restaurants and for video content
• Booking photographers, videographers and studios 
• The ideal candidate will be curious, with enthusiasm for generating food-related ideas
• This position reports to the food editor

Requirements:

• Culinary background or culinary school diploma 
• One to two years of working experience 
• Organised and able to work on different tasks at one time 
• Budgets and recons 
• Able to work in a high paced deadline driven environment on various platforms 
• Self-starter that is able to make decisions
• Must have a valid driver’s license and own car

Posted on 01 Oct 14:53