UAS Whalesong Media & Photography Lead Fall 2025 - Spring 2026

Juneau, AK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableIntern/New GradPart time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the visual storytelling for Whalesong across stories, podcasts, ads, and social, guiding photography and video that represent UAS narratives.

  • Media Ownership: Lead photography and videography for all Whalesong content and ensure consistent visual standards.
  • Tools & Workflow: Learn and operate camera equipment; maintain gear and meet deadlines.
  • Collaboration & Exposure: Attend weekly staff meetings; promote Whalesong at UAS and community events; respond to feedback.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Whalesong Media and Photography Lead will ensure Whalesong visuals, including photographs and videos for all written stories, podcasts, ads, and other information posted on the Whalesong website, social media, and print material distributed by Whalesong.
  • Responsibilities include visually representing UAS and its stories.
  • Ideal candidates will have excellent photography skills, knowledge of or ability to learn how to use various camera equipment, must keep equipment in good working order.
  • Understand basic marketing principles, adhere to deadlines, check and respond to Whalesong emails, be receptive to feedback, promote Whalesong at UAS and community events, and other duties as assigned.
  • The Media and Photography Lead is expected to attend weekly staff meetings and may occasionally work some evening and weekend hours.

Requirements

  • Must be enrolled as a UAS student taking a minimum of 6 credits with a minimum GPA of 2.0 or a newly enrolled student.

Preferred

  • team player with exceptional written and visual communication skills, who is passionate about design and/or photography and is detail oriented.
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University of Alaska

The university system started as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines in Fairbanks, later renamed the University of Alaska. That first year, the campus was a single two-story frame building and had just six students. The school was renamed the University of Alaska in 1935. In 1954, Anchorage Community College (now known as the University of Alaska Anchorage) was incorporated into the University of Alaska. That next year, Juneau Community College was established and was later named the University of Alaska Southeast. The UA system’s largest hubs (UAA, UAF and UAS) are separately accredited institutions, as is Prince William Sound Community College in Valdez. System-wide, nearly 33,000 full- and part-time students are enrolled, studying among 500 unique degree, certificate or endorsement programs. Study areas include short-course workforce training, associate degrees, bachelor’s and master’s degrees, as well as doctorates. Programs include a wide array of the sciences, engineering, teacher and early childhood education, business, journalism and communications, aviation, health occupations, history, English, the arts and humanities and many others. Per the Alaska Constitution, an 11-member board of regents governs the system. The system president serves as the board’s chief executive officer. Chancellors for each of the hubs—UAA, UAF and UAS--report to the president.

Founded in 1964
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
896 employees (23 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$7.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.2%
Direct
53.5%
Referral
5.6%
Social
1%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~896

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
23 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

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