Opportunities

This page is intended to provide information for fellowships, internships, awards, and other opportunities of interest to the Harvard survey research community.

If you offer a similar opportunity, please contact us to submit your position for this page.

Kids Survey Network Research Mentors Sought for Local Schools

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone

This is a call for Research Mentors for the Kids Survey Network Kids Survey Network (KSN), a major educational research and development project funded by the National Science Foundation. KSN’s educational mission is to promote data literacy, engaging young people in the power and interest of inquiry and reasoning with data, and preparing them for responsible and successful use of data in citizenshipand work.

Internships

JPSM Junior Fellowship Program

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Date of Deadline: 
January 15, 2009
Link: 
http://www.jpsm.org/fellows/internprog.htm
The JPSM junior fellow program is a cooperative venture of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology.  The Joint Program in Survey Methodology is funded primarily by the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy to provide graduate educational programs for the next generation of technical staff in the Federal Statistical System.  Its graduate faculty devote their

Division of Research and Statistics Project Internship

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Link: 
http://www.federalreserve.gov/careers/internsrsma.cfm

Paid internship for the summer for undergraduate and graduate students.

Work on projects previously discovered by economists.

Available to students majoring in economics, finance, statistics, mathematics, or computer science.

Candidates should e-mail the following application material to projectinterns@frb.gov or fax to 202-736-1919:

  • cover letter
  • resume (indicating citizenship and visa status)
  • college transcript
  • FRB employment application
  • three letters of academic reference directly from professors.

US Census Bureau

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Link: 
http://www.census.gov/hrd/www/jobs/stu_temp.html

OPENINGS FOR STUDENT INTERN JOBS

Economic Research Division Internship: Dissertation Internship

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Link: 
http://www.federalreserve.gov/careers/internsrsma.cfm

The Divisions of International Finance, Monetary Affairs, and Research and Statistics, offer paid internships for graduate students to conduct research at the Federal Reserve Board.

Internships are offered in the spring, summer, and fall.

Economic Research Division Internship: Dissertation Internship

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Link: 
http://www.federalreserve.gov/careers/internsrsma.cfm

The Divisions of International Finance, Monetary Affairs, and Research and Statistics, offer paid internships for graduate students to conduct research at the Federal Reserve Board.

Internships are offered in the spring, summer, and fall.

Division of Research and Statistics: Unpaid Internship

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Link: 
http://www.federalreserve.gov/careers/internsrsma.cfm

Throughout the year, the Division of Research and Statistics occasionally offers opportunities for students to work on projects as unpaid interns. The duration of the internship is generally ten to twelve weeks, depending on the assigned projects.

Summer unpaid internships selections are based solely on academic records and references. On-site interviews are not conducted.

Candidates should e-mail the following application material to projectinterns@frb.gov or fax to 202-736-1919:

Other Opportunities

Call for Research Mentors for the Kids Survey Network

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Date of Deadline: 
March 3, 2009

Kids Survey Network (KSN) is a major educational research and development project funded by the National Science Foundation. KSN’s educational mission is to promote data literacy, engaging young people in the power and interest of inquiry and reasoningwith data, and preparing them for responsible and successful use of data in citizenshipand work. More broadly, KSN represents a new kind of learning environment—an “apprenticeship network”—that aims for an improved synthesis of depth, rigor, and enjoyment in informal learning.

Summer Undergraduate Fellowship in Survey Methodology

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Date of Deadline: 
December 1, 2008

The Joint Program in Survey Methods at the University of Maryland offers a summer fellowship to undergraduates interested in a career in survey methods.

The fellowship, located in Washington DC, provides a job at a federal statistical agency, courses and training, housing, and a stipend.  The deadline for applications is December 1, 2008.

http://www.jpsm.umd.edu/fellows/

Professor Robert Putnam Seeks Post-Docs or Quantitative R.A for Interesting Projects on Social Religion and Equality

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Subject: PROFESSOR ROBERT PUTNAM SEEKS POST-DOCS AND/OR QUANTITATIVE
R.A FOR INTERESTING PROJECTS ON SOCIAL RELIGION AND EQUALITY

Prof. Robert D. Putnam seeks 1-2 skilled quantitative R.A.s and 1-2
able Post-Docs for various large applied research projects:

The topics include

(a) The changing role of religion in American communities;
(b) A comparison of the role of religion in the US, the UK, and Ireland;
(c) Trends in American social inequality, especially among youth, over
the last half century; and

US Census Bureau: Student Career Experience Program

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Link: 
http://www.census.gov/hrd/www/jobs/stu_care.html

Opportunities to Earn and Learn in the Student Career Experience Program:

  • Positions in related field of study
  • Salary based on education and experience
  • Duty location: Suitland, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, D.C.)
  • Applications currently accepted

Positions Available:

TESS Proposal Opportunities

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Link: 
http://www.experimentcentral.org
TESS is an NSF-funded infrastructure project called Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) that offers researchers opportunities to test their experimental ideas on large, diverse, randomly-selected subject populations.
Submit proposals on the website.
Fellowships and Grants

US Census Bureau: Presidential Management Fellows Program

This opportunity is available to: 
Anyone
Link: 
http://www.census.gov/hrd/www/jobs/pmip.html

For the past 27 years, the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program and its predecessor, the Presidential Management Intern (PMI) Program, have been attracting outstanding masters, law, and doctoral-level students to the Federal service. The PMF Program seeks candidates who display excellent communication, interpersonal, planning and analytical skills, decision-making ability, and the potential to perform in leadership positions. This rigorous two-year paid program includes 80-hours of training each year, rotational opportunities,