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# About the role

Purdue Hackers has gone through many eras over our 11-year lifespan, and has been radically transformed over the last two years. Our community has exploded—it's now the second-largest server under "Clubs" in the Purdue Discord student hub and the fifth-largest overall. Two years ago, the community had almost no activity; today, it has 2,000 weekly messages & 160 weekly active members, & a strong community identity.
Purdue Hackers has gone through many eras over our 11-year lifespan, and has been radically transformed over the last two years. Our community has exploded—it's now the largest server under "Clubs" in the Purdue Discord student hub and the fourth-largest overall. Two years ago, the community had almost no activity; today, it has 2,000 weekly messages & 160 weekly active members, & a strong community identity.

Hack Night is a symbol of our transformation: every Friday, 80 people show up to the Bechtel Center and hack on cool projects together—including an LED sign, Conway's Game of Life over SSH, [an alternative time system](https://blog.purduehackers.com/posts/lightning-time), a camera on a motor that tracks objects, and many others.

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- Write a monthly "VIP newsletter" that we send to current & prospective sponsors, Purdue faculty, and alumni, showing what Purdue Hackers has been working on
- Draft announcements for upcoming events to be posted on Discord and Instagram
- Write a post on [our blog](https://blog.purduehackers.com) roughly once every month
- Help send emails to professors, groups, and students to promote upcoming events
- Solicit [blog posts](https://blog.purduehackers.com) from community members about their projects, aiming to publish one post per month
- Send emails to professors, groups, and students to promote upcoming events

This is a PR role, but different from what you may have seen before: while many student orgs stop their PR efforts at event promotion, Purdue Hackers also writes articles and newsletters to keep in touch with important people and document our work for future generations. As such, this role primarily consists of _lots_ of writing.

You will own some very important projects—our blog posts have directly led to fundraising & mass awareness of Purdue Hackers, and we expect the VIP newsletter to do the same—but you will not be alone. Other team members already do public comms work and email professors; you will add extra capacity to these efforts and bring them together under one owner.
You will own some very important projects—our blog posts and VIP newsletters have directly led to fundraising & mass awareness of Purdue Hackers—but you will not be alone. Other team members already do public comms work and email professors; you will add extra capacity to these efforts and bring them together under one owner.

## About you

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