Research Assistants and Investigators

Public Safety
Industrial-Organization Analysis (educational industry)
Student Health

5–12 hr/wk
$14.00–$16.00/hr
Opportunities for bonuses, for advancement, and for awards from nationally recognized groups*

Stalcommpol Inc. is a 501c(3) public-service organization.  Currently we have positions available for university students and recent graduates.  On occasion we retain other university affiliates, primarily security staff, as consultants.

Group members meet once or twice weekly, at MIT or Harvard.  Hours are flexible.  Some of our currently available projects include:

• reviewing local police & fire dept. dispatch logs and incident reports; mapping crime patterns; raising community members’ awareness of high-risk locations and times.

• evaluating and improving on a safe, convenient, and apparently effective self-defense device designed and prototyped by our associates at the MIT Crime Club.  (Group members working on this project are required to sign a nondisclosure agreement.)

• educating legislators, student groups, and key opinion leaders about Mass. House Bill 3249, the Campus Crime Information Bill of 2007 [32K pdf], proposed and drafted by Stalcommpol members and associates at Safe Campus Initiative, Inc.

• evaluating various saliva-alcohol test strips that are represented by the manufacturers as valid for estimating Blood Alcohol Content; requesting official confirmation from the U.S. Dept. of Transp. (process description appears in Fed. Reg., 42K pdf); revising label design or instructions to facilitate self-administration by impaired users.

No specific experience is required.  Applicants must have sound interpersonal, analytical, and writing skills.  Resourcefulness, creativity, and empathic perception are essential.  A healthy indifference to personal criticism is naturally useful in project work that may lead to the discovery of organizational inefficiencies.

Send a short description of your specific interests and any relevant background information or a resume to J. Herms, Dir., jherms@stalcommpol.org.  You may also call or text (617) 835-2922.  Additional information is available on our projects page.

Part-Time Webmaster (content provider)

4–12 hr/wk
$26.00/hr and up

Create or edit simple HTML documents and images using Dreamweaver.  Maintain site infrastructure and links.  In addition, you may redesign aspects of our site as you see fit.

You will be reimbursed for all software purchases.

Copywriting, text-editing, and graphic-design skills are desirable but not essential.

Send a statement of qualifications or a resume to J. Herms, Dir., jherms@stalcommpol.org.  You may also call or text (617) 835-2922.

* Most recently given to two of our assistants by the Dru Campaign, an organization whose efforts the U.S. Dept. of Justice recognized when it named a public-safety website after Dru Sjodin.

Posted Aug. 18, 2007.