Professional Aide Project Pay
Michigan State University • East Lansing, MI • Posted June 29, 2026
Position Overview
Position Summary(Basic Job Function)
This is a project pay position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other professional support functions.
Unit Position Summary
Major responsibilities as editor of Great Lakes Echo:
Overseeing student writers:
+ Recruitment
+ Training, skills-building and guest speakers
+ Mentoring
+ Organizing one (sometimes two) staff meetings a week
Editing:
+ Researching story ideas
+ Proposing and assigning stories and rejecting/modifying/focusing student-generated story ideas
+ Editing multiple drafts (usually at least three per story) of each story, including at least one-on-one in-person edit
+ Re-editing (for Great Lakes Echo style and format) stories repurposed from Environmental Reporting (JRN 472), Capital News Service (JRN 420) and other JRN classes such as JRN 300
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This is a project pay position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other professional support functions.
Unit Position Summary
Major responsibilities as editor of Great Lakes Echo:
Overseeing student writers:
+ Recruitment
+ Training, skills-building and guest speakers
+ Mentoring
+ Organizing one (sometimes two) staff meetings a week
Editing:
+ Researching story ideas
+ Proposing and assigning stories and rejecting/modifying/focusing student-generated story ideas
+ Editing multiple drafts (usually at least three per story) of each story, including at least one-on-one in-person edit
+ Re-editing (for Great Lakes Echo style and format) stories repurposed from Environmental Reporting (JRN 472), Capital News Service (JRN 420) and other JRN classes such as JRN 300
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