Department of Art and Design, Dotphotozine - Student Assistant

Job Summary:

The Department of Art & Design for Dotphotozine. This full-color hard-copy magazine publishes a new volume every year featuring photography in a variety of formats and subjects.

The Dotphotozine Student Assistants will support the publication by assisting in the pre and post production of the magazine.

Responsibilities:

Under direct supervision, duties include but not limited to:
- Attend editorial meetings with Editor and Design Director
- Assist Editor-in-Chief with gathering images
- Resizing and retouching and color correcting images
- Ensuring proper titles/crediting
- Writing image captions
- Assist the Editor with image sequencing
- Assemble contents page
- Check magazine pagination and copyright/disclaimer statements.
- Create contributor contact page.
- Update mailing list
- Managing social media posts
- Printing mailing labels
- Assembling packets and delivering copies to mailroom.
- Other duties as they arise to facilitate magazine production and distribution.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ability to learn and perform assigned work; follow oral instructions; work cooperatively with faculty, staff, and other students; communicate effectively with all levels; and read and write English at a level appropriate to the position.

• Special Qualification: Admission or registration as a CSU student.

Required Qualifications:

• Maintain a 2.0 G.P.A. or greater per semester and cumulative.
• Students must be enrolled in at least halftime units at CSUSB (6 units undergraduate; 3 units graduate)
• International students must have full-time enrollment at CSUSB. (12 units undergraduate; 6 units graduate)
• Eligible to work in the United States
• Payroll Requirement: Social Security Card

Preferred Qualifications:

Ability to communicate and write proficiently.
Ability to learn quickly and complete assignments in a timely manner.
Ability to multitask.
Incumbent must be detail-oriented, punctual, and reliable.
Ability to work both in a team or individual environment.
Interpersonal skills.
Ability to work cooperatively with a diverse group of people.
Experience using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and other applications.
Completion of Intro Photography and/or Graphics Design Classes preferred
Maintain a preferred 2.5 G.P.A.

Compensation and Benefits:

Student Employment Anticipated Hiring Range: $16.90 per hour.

The compensation offered will consider internal equity and experience among other factors.

Position Information:

Work status: Part-Time, Temporary, Seasonal

Academic year available hours: Monday through Friday (8:00 am – 5:00 pm).

Summer available hours: Monday through Thursday (7:00 am - 5:30 pm).

The application deadline is: May 18, 2026; however, the position may close when an adequate number of qualified applications are received. 

This is an 'On-Campus Only' position. Student Employees are not eligible to telecommute at any time.

California State University, San Bernardino, as part of the CSU system, is a State of California Employer. As such, the University requires all employees upon date of hire to reside in the State of California. As of January 1, 2022 the CSU Out-of-State Employment Policy prohibits the hiring of employees to perform CSU-related work outside the state of California.

California State University, San Bernardino in not a sponsoring agency for staff or management positions (i.e. H1-B Visas).

Conditions of Employment

Background Check
Satisfactory completion of a background check (including a criminal records check) may be required for student employment purposes. CSU will make a conditional offer of employment, which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information, and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information.  Failure to satisfactorily complete the bac