Role OverviewThe Undergraduate Communications Assistant (Storyteller) will help tell the story of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Sustainability Studies Program's work in sustainability, resilience, and regeneration. The role involves building relationships with students, faculty, and community partners, and creating original content to communicate their work.
What You Will Do
Responsibilities include developing original content, building relationships, drafting social media posts, photographing and recording video, designing materials, maintaining website content, interviewing and writing profiles, contributing to a broader communications strategy, and providing general administrative support.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate will have curiosity about sustainability and environmental work, a good eye, comfort writing for a general audience, and the excitement to strike up a conversation with someone they have not met. Experience with photography, video, design, or writing is welcome, but a willingness to learn matters more than a finished portfolio.
Requirements
- Curiosity about sustainability and environmental work
- Good eye
- Comfort writing for a general audience
- Excitement to strike up a conversation with someone they have not met
- Experience with photography, video, design, or writing (welcome but not required)
Benefits
- Paid position
- Opportunity to learn and grow in a creative role
- Real latitude to propose formats, series, and ideas
- Genuine relationships with classmates, faculty, and community partners
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