Administrative Assistant and Accountant for Communities of Hope
Job Description
The Communities of Hope program, a community news service under the Journalism Program in the Department of Media + Design + Communication, is looking for a student worker with administrative and accounting skills to assist with managing the program.
Communities of Hope is a community-driven solutions journalism news service working with specific groups of people who have been erased, marginalized, underrepresented, misrepresented and maligned by mainstream media outlets.
Our mission is to empower people in those communities through training, paid work, information gathering, and educational storytelling to participate in the public conversations about the issues that affect them, about their histories, and about their roles in society, making them a central part of the decision-making process.
The student working in this position will be expected to:
- Assist with managing workflows, budgets, payments and other administrative work necessary to run the Communities of Hope program.
- Assist with planning, coordinating, and executing strategic items, projects, events, and people related to the development of Communities of Hope.
- Assist with maintaining a consistent and professional flow of communication between all internal and external groups working with Communities of Hope.
- Contribute to projects by assisting with budgeting, grant writing, project development, and assessment.
The student will receive production credit (bylines) and hold shared copyrights of every distributed product.
Special Skills Needed:
Basic administration, accounting, budgeting, planning, management and organization of projects and small organizations.
Academic Major Preferred:
Management, Accounting, Business or any students with nonprofit management and organizational skills and a general understanding of news media may apply.
Starting Date:
Applications will stay open until the position is filled.
*Students are prohibited from driving during work-study employment with the limited exception of authorized work-study driver positions.
** All employees, including student employees, are required to participate in a short online training that will prepare you with the new protocols for working on campus. Please click on the following link to complete your training: http://rwu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a4aBCUkcc7Vl7QF