PAID RESEARCH INTERN (REMOTE OPPORTUNITY)
The Honorable Mary Bush is seeking one or two paid research interns up to 10 hours per week from UMBC to monitor and analyze current events. This is truly an opportunity of a lifetime for an aspiring policy expert. This can be an opportunity for a graduate student and/or a a very astute undergraduate student. Mary Bush has served in both national and international roles in government, from the International Monetary Fund to the Department of Treasury. Her full impressive bio is attached.
This paid opportunity can be done remotely and can begin right away for the right candidates.
IF INTERESTED, please submit your resume and cover letter via UMBCworks (position 9311414) by Thursday, October 24th. If your resume is not approved in the system, please post it to UMBCworks and let Christine Routzahn at routzahn@umbc.edu know. She will review and approve it right away.
Honorable Mary K. Bush
The components of the work would be:
1. Reading and researching various publications and websites, which would be the bulk of the work.
2. Summarizing the readings in digest or bullet point format. The summaries/digests should be approximately 50 words for each article.
3. One call of 30 minutes (perhaps occasionally more) per week talking with Mary Bush and offering further explanation of the articles that the digest covers.
4. An open email exchange with the student. This can be used, for example, if the student thinks that something should be called quickly to attention. Another example: if Mary Bush would like to prompt the student to locate articles or opinion pieces that offer further clarification or an alternative point of view.
Mary Bush will provide a list of publications and institutions whose output should be regularly reviewed. This position can be a great learning experience for the collaborator(s) as it will give them the opportunity to also help interpret events and speculate about potential effects on the specific industries mentioned above, the US economy, etc.
