Professional Writing Specialist
Job in
West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, 47907, USA
Listed on 2026-07-17
Listing for:
Purdue University
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-17
Job specializations:
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Education / Teaching
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job Title:
Professional Writing Specialist
City:
West Lafayette
Job Description:
Job SummaryThe college of Liberal Arts is seeking a Professional Writing Specialist to join the Purdue OWL (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..
The Professional Writing Specialist will provide one-to-one or small group writing consultations to campus writers, primarily undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.
What You’ll Be Doing:- Using a collaborative, dialogic approach.
- Consultations will focus on planning ,drafting, revising, editing, and self-assessing.
- Facilitate clients understanding of rhetorical, genre, language, and document conventions.
- Develop, facilitate, promote, and assess writing workshops, whether focused on general audiences, on a variety of common topics, or targeted to specific disciplines or courses.
- Develop, research, assess website content related to writing.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in English, Writing, Rhetoric & Composition, Curriculum & Instruction, or related fields.
- Two years of experience mentoring writers in a writing center/student support/learning commons or related experience.
Skills Needed:
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with individuals from different viewpoints and backgrounds and teamwork in daily work activity.
- Experience with major word processing programs.
- Ability to model improvisational as well as “best practices” around issues that arise when assisting writers.
- Ability to understand the challenges and issues facing novice and expert writers.
- Understanding of rhetorical, genre, language, and document conventions.
What is Helpful:
- Experience with own graduate writing or supporting graduate writers.
- Purdue will not sponsor employment authorization for this position
- A background check will be required for employment in this position
- FLSA:
Exempt (Not Eligible For Overtime) - Retirement Eligibility:
Non-exempt Defined Contribution Plan
Purdue University is an EO/AA university.
Career StreamProfessional 2
Pay Band S065
Job Code #
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