Professional Aide Project Pay

Position Summary(Basic Job Function)
This is a project pay position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other professional support functions.
Unit Position Summary
Major responsibilities as editor of Great Lakes Echo:

Overseeing student writers:


+ Recruitment

+ Training, skills-building and guest speakers

+ Mentoring

+ Organizing one (sometimes two) staff meetings a week


Editing:


+ Researching story ideas

+ Proposing and assigning stories and rejecting/modifying/focusing student-generated story ideas

+ Editing multiple drafts (usually at least three per story) of each story, including at least one-on-one in-person edit

+ Re-editing (for Great Lakes Echo style and format) stories repurposed from Environmental Reporting (JRN 472), Capital News Service (JRN 420) and other JRN classes such as JRN 300

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