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Gain professional work experience
Join a diverse and supportive group of students
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Earn Money
All Ensian positions are paid with a competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
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Find your community on campus with the Ensian! We host many social events throughout the year.
Gain Experience
Acquire new skills, build your portfolio, and have your work published professionally.
Job Descriptions
Michiganensian Writers create the skeleton for our publication through their creation of rich and descriptive prose that holistically encompasses each event we cover. Writers should expect to create copy that follows many different styles (headlines/news, opinion, etc.) but still adheres to the overarching expectations established by supervising editors. Writers also caption each picture we include in our book (complete with a title) and must thus be able to adapt to quickly approaching deadlines and collaboration with other members of staff. More often than not, writers accompany photographers to events and conduct interviews with members of organizations in order to create a story. Research and people skills are a must have. Our new Sports Writer position follows these same guidelines with a heavy emphasis on following the U-M athletic seasons.
All staff members are expected to work in our Grad Extravaganza event to fundraise for our printing costs. This requires a low time commitment of 4 hours per week, for 4 weeks per year. Shifts worked are generally paid with bonuses.
A Michiganensian Photographer provides the aesthetic substance of our book. Photographers must work on consistent time crunches in order to photograph community events, sports, student organizations, and various happenings across campus. Photographers must be able to edit their photos efficiently to provide content for social media and the print publication. At events, photographers are also responsible for documenting information in each picture including names, position titles, school affiliations, etc. of subjects in order to provide to writers. Prior camera experience is required; prior editing experience and the ability to photograph a wide variety of styles is highly encouraged.
All staff members are expected to work in our Grad Extravaganza event to fundraise for our printing costs. This requires a low time commitment of 4 hours per week, for 4 weeks per year. Shifts worked are generally paid with bonuses.
A Michiganensian Designer represents the final step in our editorial process. Designers use the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of apps to synthesize work from writers and photographers in an aesthetically pleasing and innovative fashion. Designers use a series of InDesign templates as starting points for their work and create vastly different designs for each assignment using our custom-made color palette, pre-selected families of fonts, and style guide. Applicants should have prior experience in graphic/web design to build from; knowledge of the Adobe Suite is highly encouraged.
All staff members are expected to work in our Grad Extravaganza event to fundraise for our printing costs. This requires a low time commitment of 4 hours per week, for 4 weeks per year. Shifts worked are generally paid with bonuses.
Join Us for 2023-2024
Apply Today
- The application for the 2023-2024 school year is now open
- Interviews will be granted on a rolling basis as spots open up throughout the school year
- Students of all graduating years, including incoming freshmen and Master’s students, are welcome and encouraged to apply
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- We will share applications for upcoming hiring cycles, opportunities to submit your work to our Student Media section, notifications about releases of our free online magazine, and more
- We will also have a table at FestiFall and WinterFest if you are interested in learning more