Co-Curricular Fellow

About the Job

The Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities invites nominations and applications for a part-time Curricular Development Fellow to assist educational initiatives that support student professional development. Specific responsibilities for the position will be negotiated with the director.

Responsibilities:

The role of the fellow is to support extracurricular educational initiatives for specific programs through administrative oversight and student engagement and mentoring in ways that align with the candidate's professional background.

Additional responsibilities may include:

* Advise students about professional career concerns both individually and collectively through group engagement.

* Contribute to the delivery of educational initiatives through professional interactions and standard-setting.

* Provide collaborative mentoring, as assigned, or substitute instructional support for educational initiative programing or engaged-learning activities.

* Participate in School colloquia and provide updates on developments and trends in the professional field through reading, participation in professional organizations, publications, public speaking and network development within the community.

* Support the unit's efforts to infuse professional competencies and principles in line with accreditation expectations.

This is a temporary, part-time position during fall semester 2026 (08/31/2026 to 01/13//2027), spring semester 2027 (01/14/2027 to 05/30/2027), or both. This does not constitute a posting for vacancies, but establishes a pool of applicants should openings be available during the Academic Year . Applications will be selected from this pool on an as-needed basis during the academic year. This position may be renewed, subject to satisfactory performance and available funding.

Compensation range: $2,000-$4,500 per semester dependent on experience, qualifications and project scope.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree and at least three years of documented professional achievement in a relevant journalism, advertising, public relations, or media industry field or equivalent. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrated professional experience relevant working on issues related to strategic communication, journalism, and media and information curriculum.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Professional experience at the national and local level in nonprofit, journalism, agency or corporate settings. Work experience in journalism to include significant regional and/or national reporting assignments, visual editing and/or reporting skills. Work experience in strategic communication to include management of significant communication budgets, public relations and advertising campaigns.

About the Department

About Hubbard School

The Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota is part of the College of Liberal Arts and is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Journalism and Mass Communication. The Hubbard School offers majors in Strategic Communication - Advertising and Public Relations, Professional Journalism, and Media and Information; and minors in Media and Information and Digital Media Studies.

The Hubbard School offers an academic M.A. and Ph.D. and a Professional M.A. in Strategic Communication.

Housed in Murphy Hall, a state-of-the-art facility for teaching and research of journalism, strategic communication, and emerging media studies, the Hubbard School is home to the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, the Minnesota Journalism Center, the Hubbard Digital Studios, and the Digital Information Research Center/Sevareid Library. Hubbard facilities also include the Murphy Hall conference center, multimedia classrooms, and psycho-physiological communication research labs, and a focus group room, which is used to support graduate-level experimental research.

For further information, please visit the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication's website, at: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./hsjmc

About the College of Liberal Arts

Home to the arts, social sciences and humanities disciplines and programs, the College of Liberal Arts is the largest college in the University of Minnesota and comprises 31 academic departments, and over 20 interdisciplinary research centers and administrative/support units. CLA has over 1,300 faculty and staff spanning research, teaching, advising, outreach, and administrative functions. CLA units reside in over twenty buildings on the East Bank and West Bank of the Twin Cities campus.

CLA enrolls nearly 13,000 undergraduate students, over 40% of the undergraduate enrollment on the Twin Cities campus, 1,400 graduate students, and has an annual all-funds budget of $290 million.

CLA is a destination for curious, compassionate individuals who are committed to making our increasingly interdependent and diverse global community…