Job Summary

The college of Liberal Arts is seeking a Professional Writing Specialist to join the Purdue OWL https://owl.purdue.edu/.

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.

What We’re Looking For:

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.

Additional Information:

• 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 Stream

Professional 2

Pay Band S065
Job Code #20003609