Beacon Living Section Editor

This is not a Student Employment Position. This is a student volunteer experience. Volunteer experience participants receive monthly stipend payments.

The ideal candidate

Has excellent writing and critical thinking skills

Is insatiably curious, creative, and proactive about learning

Is a good listener as well as a natural leader

Is dependable, considerate, ethical, and emotionally mature

Does not shy away from a challenge

Can manage peers in a professional setting, holding them accountable

Must be able to handle stress well, including short deadlines

Reads journalistic media for fun and curiosity

Keeps up with current events, pop culture, and UP student culture

Is excited about multimedia as well as writing

Has a good sense of humor, knows how to generate “fun” content

Is a go-getter, strives for excellence, naturally goes above and beyond what’s expected

Collaborates and communicates well in a team setting

Is open to instruction

Has at least one year of reporting experience

Attends staff meetings Mondays and Thursdays at 5:45 p.m. unless there is a conflict with a class and the editor-in-chief approves the absence in advance. Beacon staffers are strongly discouraged from registering for classes that meet during those times.

Serves on Editorial Board and attends Ed Board meetings on Wednesday nights.

Plays leadership role as directed by adviser and editor-in-chief during Beacon Boot Camp training in August.

Assigns reporters to feature stories including multimedia, enforcing deadlines.

Ensures coverage is accurate, fair, ethical and allows for a wide range of representation of the campus community.

Edits and posts Living section content throughout the week.

Reports and writes stories for the Living section regularly (at least twice a month).

Posts at least one multimedia piece (ie: video, slideshow, graphic) in the Living section per week.

Coaches reporters on interviewing, reporting, and writing with assistance from the adviser.

Is available to reporters via phone, Slack, text, and email and scheduled one-on-one meetings.

Tags faith-related Living stories in the Faith & Fellowship section as well as in Living.

Encourages and executes innovation in multi-platform storytelling.

Monitors Living section content for accuracy and promptly posts all corrections and clarifications in the Living section when warranted.

Oversees all recorded (podcasts, video) and live content for the Living section.

Generates content ideas and coverage strategies for the Living section.

Directs Community Engagement Editor on Living content in Beacon social media.

Coordinates with Multimedia Editor in assigning Living section videos, photos, infographics.

Encourages and executes innovation in multi-platform storytelling.

Contributes two story ideas each week.

Manages time well; thrives on a busy schedule.

Must be able to handle stress well, including short deadlines.

May be required to report and write occasional news stories.

Serves on editorial board and attends its weekly meetings.

May not be employed by UP Marketing or UP Athletics or on ASUP

You must have at least a 3.0 GPA

Preferred Qualifications
Has worked previously for The Beacon

Supplemental Questions
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Contact
University of Portland
5000 N. Willamette Blvd
Portland, Oregon
97203-5798
503.943.8484
recruitment@up.edu

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