Job o’ the Day: 2013 Summer Public Interest Projects & Publications Coordinator at the National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Want to spend your summer working at the greatest place on earth? No, it’s not the circus or Disneyworld, but it’s pretty close (in certain circles): work with us here at NALP and PSJD! If you’re looking for full-time summer employment, we’re hiring a Public Interest Projects & Publications Coordinator to help us edit and produce public interest law guides, in addition to managing social media content.
Here’s more information from the PSJD job posting:
NALP seeks a law or graduate student to work full-time this summer as its Public Interest Projects & Publications Coordinator. The coordinator’s primary responsibilities are threefold:
- editing and producing the 2013 PSJD Comprehensive Fellowship Guide;
- developing original content for the PSJD website and blog; and
- contributing to the 2013-14 PSJD Federal Legal Employment Opportunities Guide’s production.
The employment period is approximately 10 weeks and includes a $675 per week stipend. The position is ideal for a law or graduate student who has editing/publishing experience and is interested in public interest law and/or nonprofit administration. The coordinator serves as an integral part of the PSJD team, which has two full-time employees.
NALP is a nonprofit member association of law schools and legal employers. NALP is dedicated to facilitating legal career counseling and planning, recruitment and retention, and the professional development of law students and lawyers. NALP houses and administers PSJD, an online public interest job database and career center for law students and attorneys. PSJD contains listings of several hundred postgraduate public interest fellowships which are offered in the U.S. and abroad. Every year, this information is collected from the website and published in hard-copy form as The PSJD Comprehensive Fellowship Guide. The coordinator plays the lead role in the guide’s annual update, along with making original contributions to other PSJD online content and publications.
Specific responsibilities associated with the coordinator position include:
- Research and update all PSJD online fellowship listings for use in the hard-copy guide. This is accomplished through email and phone outreach to employer organizations.
- Search for new fellowship listings to be added to the guide.
- Edit content and layout for publication.
- Aggregate resources and produce original content for NALP’s annually published Federal Legal Employment Opportunities Guide.
- Aggregate resources and produce original content for the PSJD website and blog.
- Other tasks as assigned.
The deadline to apply is this Friday, March 8, 2013, so don’t hesitate to apply! For application instructions and more important information, view the full job listing at PSJD.org (log-in required).