Job Opportunities

The Center for Global Security and Democracy (CGSD) offers for-credit Internship and Independent Study opportunities, as well as volunteer positions. Students who qualify for Work Study should check CGSD’s job postings on the Work Study website. You can receive credit for your Work Study job.

Internship Requirements

Internships are open to students from all majors by permission of the Director of CGSD. Interns work on a CGSD project (see below). The minimum requirements for a 3-credit Internship are (1) 180 hours (12 hours per week) and (2) attendance at project staff meetings (included in work hours). Grading will reflect (1) completion of minimum requirements (P/F), (2) quality of work and (3) professionalism of performance as a CGSD employee.

Independent Study Requirements:

Independent Studies are open to students from all majors by permission of the Director of CGSD. Students enrolled in the Independent Study option serve as Research Assistants on a CGSD project (see below). The minimum requirements for a 3-credit Independent Study are (1) a 25 page research paper (or its research equivalent, to be determined by student and project director) and (2) attendance at project staff meetings. NOTE: Given the nature of CGSD projects, RAs are expected to work on-site at least 80 hours. Grading will reflect (1) completion of minimum requirements (P/F), (2) quality of paper (or alternative research product) and (3) professionalism of performance as a CGSD employee.

Types of Positions We Seek to Fill

PHP Programmer – Web Developer [Art Without Borders/FACE Human Rights]

CGSD seeks interns (4-6) with excellent PHP coding skills and website design experience. Platform is Drupaul; considerable programming with Ruby/Rails. Interns will work on either Art Without Borders or FACE Human Rights. (See below)

Requirements: Excellent PHP coding skills and previous experience (RUCS, Residential Networking, etc. a big plus); ability to see the big picture, work without close supervision and meet tight deadlines, self-starter with a strong work ethic and sense of responsibility; good teamwork and communications skills; punctual.

Journalist/Podcaster/Editor

CGSD seeks interns (4-6) to assist in the development of global podcasting network. Help to define and develop format, recruit the network, create the editorial standards, etc.

Requirements: Must be interested in global affairs. Journalism major and/or experience (Targum, WRUS) a big plus. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Excellent interviewing skills. Excellent editorial skills and rigorous attention to detail. Excellent presentation skills and a penchant for creativity. Ability to work in a team and individually with dedication to timely completion of top quality work. Highly proficient with MS Office and comfortable in a web environment.

Information Manager – Art Without Borders/FACE Human Rights.org

CGSD seeks interns (2-4) to assist in development and implementation of document and image handling systems for interactive, global websites, one for art from the non-Western world and one for grassroots human rights organizations. Research relevant information resources and develop linkage strategies.

Requirements: Major/Minor in Communication, Information Technology and Informatics, Journalism and Media, library experience all big pluses. Excellent editorial skills and rigorous attention to detail. Excellent presentation skills and a penchant for creativity. Ability to work in a team and individually with dedication to timely completion of top quality work. Highly proficient with MS Office and comfortable in a web environment.

Promotions Coordinator

CGSD seeks interns to create, develop outreach plans for and implement distribution of promotional materials for the Center and Center programs, communicate with the Center network, oversee the Center’s websites, work with the Center’s content developers and designers and provide overall supervision of the Center’s public image promotion.

Requirements: Mason Gross, SCILS, English-BusTech major/minor a big plus, as are previous experience with PR with student org or GA. Excellent written and oral skills. Excellent editorial skills and rigorous attention to detail. Excellent presentation skills and a penchant for creativity. Solid working knowledge of web design (PHP preferred) and graphic design packages. Ability to work in a team and individually with dedication to timely completion of top quality work. Highly proficient with MS Office and comfortable in a web environment.

Research Assistant

Conduct library and online research under supervision of the director of the Sectors Project. Develop SPSS dataset of global labor organization characteristics.

Requirements: Excellent research skills and strong academic orientation. Ideal for a student planning to do an honors thesis. Previous RAs in this position have written high and highest honors departmental and Henry Rutgers theses.

Grants Coordinator

Manage current CGSD grants, coordinate assembly of grant applications, write letters of inquiry to foundations, research and identify grants to the Director, maintain timeline of relevant grant applications, edit existing text and create new text about Center program for grant applications, write interim reports, assist the Director with project evaluation and final reports.

Requirements: Excellent written and oral skills. Excellent editorial skills and rigorous attention to detail. Excellent presentation skills and a penchant for creativity. Ability to work in a team and individually with dedication to timely completion of top quality work. Highly proficient with MS Office and comfortable in a web environment.

Project Coordinators – Art Without Borders/FACE Human Rights

CGSD seeks project coordinators to oversee the development and implementation of projects related to these global, interactive, web portals. Coordinate meetings and project activities. Conduct research, network with outside organizations, make AWB/FACE presentations at Rutgers and elsewhere. Manage correspondence with international network and partner organizations.

Requirements: AWB Project Coordinator – Knowledge of/interest in contemporary art, previous gallery, museum or related experience a big plus. FACE Project Coordinator – Knowledge of human rights/social justice essential, previous experience with human rights NGO a big plus. Excellent written and oral skills. Excellent editorial skills and rigorous attention to detail. Excellent presentation skills and a penchant for creativity. Ability to work in a team and individually with dedication to timely completion of top quality work. Highly proficient with MS Office and comfortable in a web environment.

Current Projects

Art Without Borders

Art Without Borders is an online, interactive, global art gallery featuring curated exhibitions of artists outside the North American and West European art scenes. Art Without Borders harnesses the power of the Internet to overcome geography and political barriers to create a virtual global ‘safe space’ in which artists and viewers can meet to share in a common struggle to understand the revolutionary impact of globalization in the 21 st century. Art Without Borders will offer multiple exhibitions simultaneously. Each will be curated by an expert and provide a downloadable catalog, artists’ statements, resumes and additional images of their work. Art Without Borders will make artists’ work available for sale, provide educational materials and opportunities for global electronic collaboration among schools, offer moderated electronic fora for artists, gallery owners and curators, and encourage individuals worldwide to mount exhibitions.

FACE Human Rights.org

Forum to Advocate, Communicate and Engage Human Rights is a multilingual, international, interactive human rights forum through which students can engage each other as global citizens. FACE Human Rights is also a powerful, decentralized network designed to serve the thousands of small, isolated, grassroots human rights organizations. FACE Human Rights provides a public Internet infrastructure that permits individuals and organizations around the world to connect, share information and organize and act in fluid combinations as the situational “market” requires. It is a bazaar in which individuals, teachers, organizers, funders, NGOs, and IOs can shop for the resources and partners to engage human rights.

Global PACT

Global Partnerships for Activism and Cross-Cultural Training is a grassroots organizing and citizenship education program developed and operated by Rutgers students. Using training experiences from Ulan Bator, Mongolia to Zagreb, Croatia, Global PACT prepares young people to be engaged and effective democratic participants, and equips them with the skills they need to transform their communities. With funding from, for example, the Open Society Institute and the United States Institute of Peace, Global PACT runs trainings help rebuild communities after conflict in areas such as the Balkans.

Sectors Project

The Sectors Project is a collaborative research project involving CGSD faculty with faculty from Central European University in Budapest and Yale. The project is an effort to develop a general theoretical explanation for the diverse development trajectories of the post-socialist states of Eastern Europe and the CIS and by extension to propose a general theory of late develop. It is our contention that it is the attributes of the leading sectors through which the national economy has been tied to the global economy that shape countries chances for efficient restructuring and sustainable development. The sectors project team’s current undertaking is the construction of a labor data set. The Labor dataset (Data Set II) will be a compendium of workforce statistics and labor union strength indicators drawn from over 100 countries from 1980 to the present. This data set is unique in its goal of providing possibly the most exhaustive collection of indicators of both workforce and union strength statistics from across the globe.

World Voices

World Voices is a weekly postcast reported, edited and produced by university students around the world led by a Rutgers team at CGSD. Using Skype, the free Internet telephone service, World Voices correspondents from different countries around the globe call other university students in still other countries around the world to interview them about big issues and just fun topics such as dating and favorite TV shows. The interviews are then edited and combined into a half hour podcast that is posted to iTunes and to the World Voices website. The World Voices website also features country information, profiles of correspondents, and correspondent blogs.