The communications team at CITRIS’s headquarters at UC Berkeley is seeking a student writer for the 2025–26 academic year. The position is available to currently enrolled UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students.
As the technology writer, you’ll work alongside experts and leaders across our four campuses to distill complex information into compelling stories. You’ll help produce content in multiple formats such as feature articles, announcements and more.
You’ll also play an essential role in monitoring our success stories, maintaining a database of news media mentions that reference the institution and affiliated researchers. You will also draft summaries of featured coverage for publication on the CITRIS website.
Typical tasks include interviewing a researcher about their groundbreaking technology, drafting an announcement to announce a new industry partnership, developing engaging social media copy to promote longform stories, working with department staff to develop media designed to promote our unique capabilities and successes, as well as monitoring daily media clips reports from various sources such as Google Alerts and RSS feeds, entering media mentions into an Airtable database, drafting news briefs (50–150 words) that highlight coverage of interest to the CITRIS community, and adding news briefs to a WordPress website.
Required qualifications include a minimum of one to two years of experience writing and editing published content in a science- or technology-related environment, and the ability to work independently and meet deadlines with minimal supervision. The expected schedule is 10–15 hours per week, with availability throughout academic year.
Please apply through Handshake (#10116331) or the Work-Study website (#1189323159), or by emailing a cover letter, resume and the full text of three writing samples (preferably published) in a single PDF file to kwaller@berkeley.edu.