Blog host/producer position in The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy | August 2024 to May 2025
The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo School of Law is an endowed academic center for interdisciplinary research. The mission of The Baldy Center is to advance interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions, and social policy. It does so by supporting research projects, conferences, workshops, fellowships, visiting scholars, speakers, and other initiatives. The Baldy Center blog presents the research and viewpoints of UB and other scholars whose research is law and social policy focused.
The Baldy Center is hiring a new blog producer for the 2024-2025 season. The position continues through the 2024-2025 academic year, and possibly beyond, for up to 9 hours per week. The rate is $15- $19 per hour, dependent on qualifications and experience. This is a position which requires a high degree of independent activity, partnered with periods of intense collaboration with center staff and scholars.
The blog producer works with Baldy Center leadership to define possible blog authors from faculty within and outside of UB. The producer will contact potential blog writers with invitations to write. The producer is responsible for tracking all communications and deadlines with faculty blog authors. The producer will edit blog offerings to produce one approximately 750 word blog every two weeks during the fall and spring semesters, including an introductory blog or statement for the website. The producer will develop roughly 10- 20 blogs during the 2024-2025 academic year. Supporting tasks such as online posting and promotion are performed by collaborating center staff. The producer is responsible for utilizing the shared project Teams for raw and edited files, for researching trending topics in media, and actively sharing the blog posts on social media networks.
Applicants must be a UB student, enrolled in a graduate program (Law, CAS, PhD, or other appropriate professional degree program preferred), and eligible to work on campus (Student Employment Policy – Administrative Services Gateway – University at Buffalo). International students and domestic students are welcome to apply. Given the interdisciplinary law focused blog theme, a rising 3L may be ideal.
For examples, please refer to previous blog topics on The Baldy Center website.
Qualifications include required and preferred skills and experience.
Required:
1. Fundamental interest in interdisciplinary research. Our research center is dedicated to supporting interdisciplinary research. The blog producer must have capacities for engaging with law, legal institutions, and social policy research.
3. Ability or willingness to learn how to determine trending topics on social media.
3. Ability to communicate clearly and at a professional level with scholars and Baldy Center staff and ability to maintain a record of communications.
4. Ability to work independently and consistently on a tight production schedule.
Preferred
1. Knowledge law, social policy, or other non-fictional scholarly blog styles.
2. Experience in Law and Social Policy topics.
3. Actively enjoy the nature and process of blogging.
4. Experience in writing, editing, and copyediting anything, but blogs specifically.
The position will require reporting in-person to The Baldy Center in O’Brian Hall and/or meetings via Zoom. The blog producer will be supervised by the Assistant Director and the Director, who serve as executive producers, and work closely with the Website Managing Editor. The producer will be expected to join staff meetings as needed.
Hiring paperwork will include UBF forms, tax forms, and the I-9 form, which calls for specific documentation (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9). You must have these documents on hand at time of hiring. Time sheets are submitted via UBBox biweekly. Payroll follows the UBF hourly payroll calendar (http://www.buffalo.edu/administrative-services/managing-people/payroll-calendars.html).
To apply, please submit a letter of application, your resume, and class schedule. If you have blog experience, you are welcome to submit relevant links as part of your application. Please submit application files through Bullseye-Handshake. You may email BaldyCenter@buffalo.edu with any questions. The application deadline is September 1, 2024, decisions will be made within two weeks and the position will begin ASAP.
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