Expert on U.S. Congress and public policy: VoterPunch needs an expert on the U.S. Congress & Public Policy to write Congressional vote descriptions for our searchable database of Congressional votes. To see what the job entails, the best thing to do is to visit ProgressivePunch.org, a licensee of ours, and drill down until you actually see paragraph long individual vote descriptions (one click past the 1 sentence vote description summaries). We’re looking for people who are very lucid and succinct expository writers (think magazine writing not theses.) You should also have a very comprehensive knowledge of the inner workings of the US Congress – e.g. parliamentary maneuverings such as motions to recommit, previous question motions etc. as well as a broad command of the range of policy issues confronting Congress and the politics that surround Congressional votes. We’re looking for someone who has this info down cold, not a first year Ph.D. student who’s just learning it. The two individuals who have written the descriptions currently posted on the site are Ph. D. candidates in political science at the University of California, Berkeley – one in fact is a second generation Congressional scholar – but you don’t have to be an academic, especially since we aim at a popular audience. Actual Capital Hill experience highly desirable, not absolutely mandatory. Decent pay. Send CV & (preferably non-academic) political writing sample to Jobs@VoterPunch.org. If academic writing is only thing available, send that.
(Posted 1/20/05)
