Jobs & Internships
Employers: If you would like to add a job to this listing, send to Steve Rottinghaus at steve_rottinghaus@ku.edu.
| Job title | Description | Opportunity | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regional and marketing assistant (Lincoln, Nebraska) | KOLN/KGIN-TV: Assist the sales managers and local sales staff in the day-to-day operation | Job | Full time |
| Communications assistant (Topeka, Kansas) | Kansas Democratic Party: Attending events and assisting with research projects, including media collection and transcription. | Job | Full time |
| Digital and social media coordinator (Topeka, Kansas) | Kansas Democratic Party: Lead the state party’s digital operations and larger media output. | Job | Full time |
| Student assistant (Lawrence, Kansas) | Kansas Athletics: Assist with the day-to-day operations of the media relations office, including archiving articles, writing game program stories, and answering fan and media inquiries. | Internship | Part time |
| General assignment reporter (Kansas City) | KCUR: Brainstorm, research, photograph, record and report spot news. | Job | Full time |
| Communications intern (Kansas City) | Alzheimer's Association: Maintain social media platforms (including adding facebook events, sharing posts, creating potential content) and develop active media contact lists | Internship | Part time |
| Student office assistant/graphics designer (Lawrence, Kansas) | KU International Affairs: Graphic design projects, works with staff to design marketing materials, greets and assists visitors. | Job | Part time |
| Photojournalist (Victoria, Texas) | Victoria Advocate: Report and shoot for our print, digital and social platforms. | Internship | Full time |
| Assistant private events coordinator (Kansas City, Missouri) | Living Room: Assist private events team with event details | Job | Full time |
| Social media and publicity intern (Colorado Springs, Colorado) | Pro Football Camp: Publicity, social media and media relations. | Internship | Part time |
| Sales support specialist (Overland Park, Kansas) | Spectrum Reach: Plays a key role in translating customer advertising objectives into data driven and effective ad schedules. | Job | Full time |
| Social media intern (Lawrence, Kansas) | Girls Rock Lawrence: Create content and track analytics for social media accounts: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube | Internship | Part time |
| Multimedia journalist (Topeka, Kansas) | WIBW: Exceptional live reporter with the ability to cover politics and government. | Job | Full time |
| Education reporter (Fort Worth, Texas) | Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Cover the beat with eye toward problems, challenges, success stories and solutions. | Job | Full time |
| Summer internships (Kansas City, Missouri) | Bernstein-Rein: Account executive, digtal content creator, project manager, art director, graphic designer, social media, copywriter, media planner. | Internship | Part time |
| Marketing manager (Kansas City, Missouri) | Kauffman Center: Drive ticket sales, work with media buyer, develop and manage marketing messages. | Job | Full time |
| Report for America | Positions in criminal justice, education, environment, health care, local governments, rural issues, minority communities. | Job | Full time |
| World Journalism Institute (Sioux Center, Iowa) | World Journalism Institute: Learn how to report, develop skills, create feature stories in print, video and podcast form. | Internship | Part time |
| Digital assistants | USTA-Missouri Valley: Team with section marketing communications staff and district staff to identify opportunities to provide awareness of tennis locally, | Job | Part time |
| 2020 census taker | U.S. Census Bureau: Want to ensure an accurate and complete count of the local population of all communities in 2020 | Job | Part time |
| Social media coordinator (Kansas City) | Woodruff: Day-to-day social media work for assigned clients | Job | Full time |
| Marketing internship (Kansas City) | March of Dimes: Creating weekly reports; writing letters and/or emails to thank supporters; conduct research. | Internship | Part time |
| Summer 2020 interns (Wichita and Kansas City) | Signal Theory: Positions in account management, brand strategy, copywriting, design, media planning and buying, public relations, social media and content strategy. | Internship | Part time |
| Multimedia journalist (Columbia, Missouri) | ABC17 News: Live reporting in the field and bring enterprised story ideas to work every day and work within research-driven newsroom | Job | Full time |
| Social media intern (Kansas City, Missouri) | Gragg Advertising: Assist social media department by creating and posting creative content, and asset creation. | Internship | Part time |
| USGA/NGA communications intern (Omaha, Nebraska) | Nebraska Golf Association: Provide assistance to the NGA Staff, Board of Directors, and Committee Members in the day-to-day operations of association activities, with a focus on NGA digital communication efforts and social media. | Internship | Part time |
| Social media assistant (Lawrence, Kansas) | KU Marketing Communications: Listen to and engage in conversations happening in real time; maintain a consistent, single voice for the university on social media. | Job | Part time |
| Athletics communications graduate assistant (Normal, Illinois) | Illinois State University: Serve as a primary media contact for either football/baseball or soccer/softball. | Job | Full time |
| Reporter (Wichita, Kansas) | KAKE-TV: Perform active live shots in the field or studio as assigned by producer | Job | Full time |
| Anchor/reporter (Wichita, Kansas) | KAKE-TV: anchor the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts on KAKE-TV. | Job | Full time |
| Anchor/reporter (Wichita, Kansas) | KAKE-TV: anchor the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts on KAKE-TV. | Job | Full time |
| Reporter/producer (Wichita, Kansas) | KAKE-TV: Must be able to perform duties on all platforms, from on-air, to web publishing, and all other social media | Job | Full time |
| Producer (Wichita, Kansas) | KAKE-TV: Directing reporters and photographers to complete assigned tasks | Job | Full time |
| Account executive (Wichita, Kansas) | KAKE-TV: Develop and maintain direct relationships with agencies and clients while driving revenue to achieve monthly goals | Job | Full time |
| Sales assistant (Wichita, Kansas) | KAKE-TV: Process new sales orders placed by advertisers and assist with order revisions and modifications | Job | Full time |
| Social media intern (remote) | Veterans Voices Writing Project: Assist marketing committee by creating and implementing a social media marketing plan. | Internship | Part time |
| Sports director (Topeka, Kansas) | WIBW: Shoot, edit and produce sports reports, as well as keep the web page populated with interesting and important stories. | Job | Full time |
| Copy editor (Bismarck, North Dakota) | Bismarck Tribune: Editing, writing concise headlines, handling rewrites and managing pages through a design center. | Job | Full time |
| Reporter (Lawrence, Kansas) | Lawrence Journal-World: A desire to help residents better understand their community, commitment to accuracy and fairness. | Job | Full time |
| Revenue operations specialist (Kansas City) | CBIZ: Build, execute and leverage web forms, landing pages, webinars and other strategies focused on capturing new leads to nurture and pass off to sales teams. | Job | Full time |
| Graphic design intern (remote) | Albatross Ventures: Establish lead-generating and brand-building design across websites, social, sales materials and more. | Internship | Part time |
| Content writers | Longmire and Company: Possess a high level of creativity, as well as the ability to use data-driven insights to write enlightening material | Job | Part time |
| Strategic Communication Intern (Kansas City) | Central Exchange: Assist in executing key marketing and communication strategies. | Internship | Part time |
| Copy editor/page designer (Victoria, Texas) | Victoria Advocate: Coloring outside the lines with your design; staying inside them with your copy editing; experience with digital presentation; and a passion for storytelling. | Job | Full time |
| Kansas City Athletic Communications Intern (Kansas City, Missouri) | Kansas City Athletics Communications: Serve as primary communications contact with various sports; create content; promote student-athletes. | Internship | Part time |
| Communications intern (Kansas City, Missouri) | VML&R: Help create internal employee enewsletter; assist in event planning. | Internship | Part time |
| Health/environment reporter; writers and photographers; audience manager (Kansas City, Missouri) | The Beacon: Health/environment reporter; writing, photography; audience development | Job | Full time |
| Multimedia content generator (Kansas City, Kansas) | Community Housing of Wyandotte County: Create graphics, photos and videos for website and social media platforms. | Internship | Part time |
| Content specialist (virtual) | Kansas Youth Rugby: Collect and enter stats and scores; communicate with all coaches in the Kansas programs | Job | Part time |
| Campaign analyst (Overland Park, Kansas) | Informa: Enhance focus on quality assurance and quality control over web, app and newsletter advertising. | Job | Full time |
| Marketing and communications intern (Lawrence, Kansas) | Senior Resource Center: Assistance with management of SRC's social media strategies and content scheduling using Hootsuite | Internship | Part time |
| Communications intern (Lawrence, Kansas) | Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department: Help support internal and external communications. | Internship | Part time |
| Marketing intern (Overland Park, Kansas) | TLC Marketing Consultants: Assist in the areas of public relations, social media, digital media and traditional media platforms. | Internship | Part time |
| Communications intern (Topeka, Kansas) | Kansas Public Employees Retirement System: Develop content and graphics for multi-channel use, including web, video and print publications, as required for department projects. | Internship | Part time |
| Account executive (Hays, Kansas) | Eagle Radio: Arrange meetings with clients and prospects to develop marketing solutions for their business | Job | Full time |
| Marketing B2B summer intern (Fort Worth, Texas) | BNSF: Lead projects intended to enhance customer experience, identify market trends, improve or grow current business strategies. | Job | Full time |
| Content creation coordinator (Lawrence, Kansas) | Lawrence Humane Society: Craft amd host digital newscast; design and develop monthly digital magazine; secure sponsorships. | Job | Full time |
| Digital account executive (Wichita, Kansas) | KWCH/KSCW: Implementing online sales strategies with focus on increasing online revenue, planning, strategic growth of digital products. | Job | Full time |
| News anchor/producer (Denver, Colorado) | Univision: Day-to-day production of newscasts; determine content and flow of newscasts. | Job | Full time |
| Communications student assistant (Lawrence, Kansas) | Office of Research: Update websites, research and write news releases; write and schedule media posts. | Job | Part time |
| Photojournalist (Wichita, Kansas) | KAKE: Shoot live news footage as well as edit footage for news shows. | Job | Full time |
| Reporter (Wichita, Kansas) | KAKE: Perform active live shots in the field or studio | Job | Full time |
| Anchor/reporter (Wichita, Kansas) | KAKE: Strong writing, anchoring ability; able to interview live. | Job | Full time |
| Digital revenue manager (Topeka, Kansas) | WIBW: A progressive, creative thinker who can conceptualize, execute, and close revenue-producing ideas that connect our advertiser's goals to our digital-products. | Job | Full time |
| DC Internships (Washington, D.C.) | Academic Internship Program: Curriculum designed to complement DC experience with upper-level | Internship | Part time |
| Governor's Internship Program (Topeka, Kansas) | Governor's Internship Program: Work directly in state government and make valuable contributions. | Internship | Part time |
