Content Specialist

Position Title: Content Specialist

Department: Student Media

Advertised Pay: $11.00 per hour

Campus Location: Washburn University

Position Summary:

Content Specialists report within Student Media to write stories, take photos, create videos and podcasts for the Washburn Review newspaper, website, BodPod channel, and Indigo Magazine.

About Washburn University: 

Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition for its high-impact programs for first-generation students. Washburn has a student body of just over 7,000 students, a significant and growing number of whom are first-generation and Pell-Grant eligible. The University has created educational pathways for all students to be successful and achieve their educational goals.

Washburn is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a dynamic faculty, staff, and student body and cultivating a robust learning and working environment and curriculum. We employ more than one thousand faculty and staff on our campuses throughout Topeka and strive to offer competitive wages, an excellent benefits program, and a supportive culture and a healthy work/life balance. Washburn seeks to create an environment that reflects our core values for creating positive IMPACT: inclusion, modernization, partnership, achievement, community and transformation. In 2024, Washburn was recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to Great Colleges to Work For® program.

Essential Functions:
-Students arrange face-to-face interviews with students, faculty and staff on campus to report on the news and create content.
-Students attend campus events as working members of Student Media.
-Students write stories and create content for publication that adhere to journalistic standards, are factually correct and relevant to the campus community.
-Students complete a minimum of four content assignments per week.
-Students are available for the mandatory Student Media organization meeting on Mondays from 5:30 - 6:20 p.m., individual team meetings, and other coaching sessions to improve their writing and mandatory training sessions.
-Students work for a specific team and report to a specific Student Media executive leader.
-Perform additional job-related duties as assigned.

Non-Essential Functions:
Student Media will train students without previous journalism background.

Required Qualifications:
-Basic knowledge of computers required.
-Content Specialists are trained Reporters - Photographers - Videographers – Podcasters with at least two semesters of previous experience as Content Creators in Student Media.

Preferred Qualifications:
-Experience editing audio and/or video is preferred for podcasters and videographers.
-Experience working in a professional office environment preferred.
-Experience working with the English language preferred.

Special Instructions to Applicants: 

Stipend Monthly Exempt, Part time 
Background Check Not Required