Student Job Openings

Blog host/producer position in The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
September 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 Associate 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).

Please submit application files through Bullseye-Handshake. You may email BaldyCenter@buffalo.edu with any questions. If you have blog experience, you are welcome to submit relevant links as part of your application. 

Pursuant to University policy, The University at Buffalo is committed to ensuring equal employment, educational opportunity, and equal access to services, programs, and activities without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, gender, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, or ex-offender status. Employees, students, applicants or other members of the University community (including but not limited to vendors, visitors, and guests) may not be subjected to harassment that is prohibited by law or treated adversely based upon a protected characteristic.

Podcast host/producer position in The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
September 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 podcast 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 podcast 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 podcast producer works with Baldy Center leadership to define possible guests from faculty within and outside of UB. The producer will contact potential guests with invitations to interview. The producer is responsible for tracking all communications and deadlines with faculty interviewees. The producer will edit podcast offerings to produce one 20–30-minute podcast every two weeks or once a month during the fall and spring semesters. The producer will develop roughly 10 podcasts 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 podcast 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 podcast theme, a rising 3L may be ideal.

For examples, please refer to previous podcast 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 producer must have capacities for engaging with law, legal institutions, and social policy research.

2.     Experience in producing audio recordings, editing large audio files, and file management.

3.     Experience interviewing.

4.     Ability or willingness to learn how to determine trending topics on social media.

5.     Ability to communicate clearly and at a professional level with scholars and Baldy Center staff and ability to maintain a record of communications.

6.     Ability to work independently and consistently on a tight production schedule.

Preferred

1.     Knowledge law, social policy, or other non-fictional scholarly podcast styles.

2.     Experience in Law and Social Policy topics.

3.     Actively enjoy the nature and process of podcast interviews and producing.

The position will require reporting in-person to The Baldy Center in O’Brian Hall and/or meetings via Zoom. The podcast producer will be supervised by the Associate 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).

Please submit application files through Bullseye-Handshake. You may email BaldyCenter@buffalo.edu with any questions. If you have media production experience, you are welcome to submit relevant links as part of your application. 

Pursuant to University policy, The University at Buffalo is committed to ensuring equal employment, educational opportunity, and equal access to services, programs, and activities without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, gender, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, or ex-offender status. Employees, students, applicants or other members of the University community (including but not limited to vendors, visitors, and guests) may not be subjected to harassment that is prohibited by law or treated adversely based upon a protected characteristic.

Hiring Now: Office and events student assistant position in The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
September 2024-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, online knowledge mobilization through blogs and podcasts, and other initiatives.

The Baldy Center is seeking an office assistant who can assist in the administrative and clerical tasks necessary to support The Baldy Center’s programs. The position begins in August and extends through the 2023-2024 academic year for 10-20 hours per week, depending on class scheduling and academic load for the office assistant. The pay rate is $15-$18 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.

The office assistant works with The Baldy Center Assistant Director and cooperates with all other staff to:

·       support Baldy Center events by being present at all Baldy Center campus events (held on campus on Fridays during the academic year), and by making hotel reservations, posting flyers around campus, and setting up and clearing the event coffee supplies.

·       possibly write content for our online products and/or support our social media content.

·       complete office tasks including responding to email and phone calls, scanning, completing paperwork, maintaining/organizing Baldy Center spaces.

The position is in-person, on campus, during normal business hours (8:30am- 4:30pm) or as needed for events.

Applicants must be a UB student, enrolled in any undergraduate or graduate program and eligible to work on campus (see the Student Employment Policy on the University at Buffalo website) through May 2025.

Qualifications include required and preferred skills and experience.

Required:
1. Proficiency in Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
2. Experience in a professional office environment.
3. The ability to be organized, adaptive, and reliable.
4. Strong spoken and written communication skills, which will be used in professional communication with faculty, staff, and outside guests and vendors such as hotels and caterers.
5. Ability to work collaboratively with the team and independently on assigned tasks, while pivoting according to dynamic office support needs.

Preferred:

1.     Some experience in a broad array of office apps (e.g. Teams, Adobe, project management apps, basic graphics editing apps).

2.     Some experience in managing a professional/UB social media account.

3.     An interest in interdisciplinary studies.

Hiring paperwork will include UBF HR 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).

Please submit application files through Bullseye-Handshake. You may email BaldyCenter@buffalo.edu with any questions. The application deadline is August 31, 2024, decisions will be made within two weeks and the position will begin ASAP.

Pursuant to University policy, The University at Buffalo is committed to ensuring equal employment, educational opportunity, and equal access to services, programs, and activities without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, gender, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, or ex-offender status. Employees, students, applicants or other members of the University community (including but not limited to vendors, visitors, and guests) may not be subjected to harassment that is prohibited by law or treated adversely based upon a protected characteristic.