Careers

Willamette Week is a small team of hardworking folks who care deeply about making Portland a better place to live. We have an office in NW Portland with a hybrid work environment, asking all employees to be in the office a few days a week.

Each job we post has its own application process, please read descriptions carefully before applying. We embrace diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Our priority is to select the most suitable candidate for the position, and we recognize that excellence can come from various experiences and perspectives.

Willamette Week offers full time employees health insurance (and we pay 100% of the premium for the base plan), a 401k that provides a small employer match, two weeks of paid vacation, and 11 paid holidays.

Select the open position below to quickly get to the description and application details.


Healthcare Reporter

Oregon is unhealthy, and it needs a relentless reporter to help it get well. This state ranks 48th in the country for youth mental health, and our rate of deaths from alcohol is double the national average. The state’s psychiatric hospital has no room to accept even the most dangerously troubled people, vaccination rates are plummeting, and Portland’s two largest hospital systems are on the brink of a merger that could dramatically reduce options for patients. Willamette Week, the locally-owned, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper and media company in Portland, is seeking a healthcare reporter to cover everything from water fluoridation to medical bill-rigging. If you like stirring up trouble, can spot poor performers hidden in a government database, and have a knack for getting nurses to talk on background, you’re just the person we’re looking for. Come from a background that’s underrepresented in journalism? That’s even better. Send a resume and three clips to amesh@wweek.com.


Friends of Willamette Week (FOWW) Development Coordinator

Job Summary: Willamette Week, Portland’s most vital source for news and culture coverage, seeks a Development Coordinator for our Friends of Willamette Week (FOWW) program - a vital and growing revenue source for our journalism. In this role you will perform administrative duties that are essential for the program’s success. You will be providing excellent customer service to our contributors and readers, entering and maintaining crucial data, and sending thank-you mail to contributors.

Note: while FOWW operates very much like a nonprofit, we are not a nonprofit—we have a fiscal sponsorship established that allows for our supporters to give tax-deductible contributions.

Supervisor: Jamie Strickler, FOWW Manager

Location: In office on Tuesday or Thursday

Hours: 8 hours per week

Compensation: $22/hour

To Apply: Apply here (Google Form)

Be prepared to upload your resume (pdf only, under 10 mb) and answer these questions:

1. What data management experience do you have?

2. What nonprofit experience do you have?

3. Other than what you’ve described above, how have your professional, academic, or lived experiences prepared you to be successful in this role?

4. How do you like to be managed?

5. How do you track your tasks and stay focused?

Hiring Process: Review of applications will begin immediately. Interviews with both the FOWW Executive Director and Manager will follow. Final candidates will be asked for references (2 professional, 1 personal).

Position will remain open until filled. We hope to hire quickly.

We embrace diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. Our priority is to select the most suitable candidate for the position, and we recognize that excellence can come from various experiences and perspectives. We encourage people from all experience levels to apply for this role.

Responsibilities include:

  • Provide general donor support and customer service:
  1. Help donors with their failed transactions.
  2. Manage the membership email and voicemail; resolve requests
  3. Write and send thank you notes, packages
  • Enter and import data into our database with attention to detail
  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Google suite skills or ability to quickly learn (Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Forms, Meet)
  • Nonprofit experience, especially a fundraising background, is extremely helpful
  • Donor database or other CRM experience is extremely helpful

Our ideal candidate will prioritize kind, helpful, and responsive communication and maintaining an accurate, clean and comprehensive database. Other valuable traits include:

  • Willing to ask for help
  • Dependable and trustworthy
  • Self motivated and goal driven
  • Collaborative partnership but with an independent work ethic
  • Problem solve with transparency and positivity

About Willamette Week

About Willamette Week: Willamette Week is Portland’s go-to alternative media source for news, politics, arts and culture. WW produces a weekly newspaper, annual culture magazines, a podcast, major events and daily content across our website, newsletters and social channels. Each month we publish original content on wweek.com and in weekly print editions, keeping over 2 million unique readers consistently up to date, engaged and coming back for more through our newsletters, social channels, magazines, events and more. We also operate Give!Guide, a charitable effort that has raised more than $73 million for local nonprofits since 2004, and we are the only weekly newspaper ever to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.