Writer

Months Per Year: 12 Work Model:
Onsite Seattle University will be one of the most innovative and progressive Jesuit and Catholic universities in the world, educating with excellence at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. We embrace an intersectional framework for defining diversity in its broadest sense, including differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, generational history, culture, socioeconomic class, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship status, political perspectives, geographic origin and physical ability.

Seattle University strives to be a welcome, open and safe campus climate for all who learn, live and work at Seattle University.

Effective Team

Collaboration:

Works harmoniously with others towards a common goal, leveraging individual strengths to achieve shared objectives.

Emotionally Intelligent Communication:
Engages in a skillful exchange of information, thoughts, and feelings, verbally and non-verbally.

Ethics and Integrity:
Demonstrates an unwavering commitment to honesty, professionalism, and alignment with our Jesuit mission in all actions and decisions.

Flexibility and Innovation:
Embraces change, approaching problems with curiosity adaptability, and is committed to making a positive impact.

Mindful Inclusion:
Fosters mindful inclusion by consciously creating a workplace that celebrates differences, embraces cultural humility, and empowers uniqueness.

Outcomes-Driven Orientation:
Sets clear objectives, pursues excellence, and delivers measurable outcomes while upholding Jesuit Catholic values.

• Identify and pitch story ideas that highlight the people, programs, partnerships, events and research of the university.
• Conduct interviews with faculty, students, alumni and industry partners.
• Write feature stories, profiles and other content for use across digital and print platforms including the university website, newsletters, our news site The Newsroom, Seattle University Magazine, email campaigns and social media.
• Collaborate with photographers, designers and videographers to supplement stories with images.
• Ensure content is consistent with the university's editorial voice and aligned with the university's strategic messaging.
• Develop sources within the university as well as alumni, donors and the community to inform relevant, timely storytelling.
• Coordinate storytelling ideas with the Assistant Director of Communications and Publishing, the Director of Strategic Communications.
• Drive organic visibility by creating search-optimized copy that reinforces SU's brand Write content that satisfies search intent and supports SU's subject-matter authority.
• Assist in editing or proofreading content as needed (in adherence to Seattle University's Editorial Style Guide).

• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, Marketing, English or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in journalism, writing, content creation or higher education communications.
• Exceptional writing, interviewing and storytelling skills.
• Strong understanding of journalistic ethics, fact-checking and AP style.
• Ability to translate complex topics into clear, engaging narratives.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, as well as in a team or collaborative environment, and manage multiple deadlines.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and basic content management systems.

• Experience working in a university or higher education institution.
• Familiarity with digital publishing tools (such as Content Management Systems) and social media storytelling.

$60,000 - $67,000 Seattle University has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, and not based on a candidate’s gender or any other protected status.