Employment

Uncover History While Shaping the Future.

America’s Main Street Party is employing college students to establish a “proof of concept” for a truly free and equal nominating system for United States Congress. Employment is concentrated in Philadelphia, PA.

Work is performed in compliance with FEC regulations. Interns are 1099 subcontractors and paid $25/hour. All content created is public domain.

  • The assignment is to:

    • Conduct market research

    • Identify target markets

    • Develop strategy and campaign plan

    • Raise funds for software development

    Status:

    • Market research survey and poster completed.

  • The assignment is to:

    • Define the free and equal nominating process for Constituents, Candidates and Nominating Committee.

    • Work with software engineering to develop and test the prototype.

    • Create a simulation to demonstrate how the system will operate.

    Status:

    • Requirements for Constituents have been defined and reviewed with software engineering.

    • Requirements definition for Candidates is 50% complete.

    • Requirements definition for the Nominating Committee has begun.

  • The assignment is to:

    • Spec and build development environment.

    • Review functional requirements

    • Develop and test software

    • Create simulations

    Skills:

    • Experience with HTML/CSS/JS

    • Experience with at least one front end JS framework

    • Experience deploying an application to a cloud environment

    • Full stack experience a plus

    Status:

    • Development environment created.

    • Requirements for Constituents have been reviewed.

    • Design of Constituents module has begun.

    Weekly Work Requirement: 20 hours.

  • The assignment is to:

    • Develop a detailed project plan identifying the steps necessary to raise money, develop software, get nominees on the general election ballots, and ultimately to become a national political party.

    Status:

    • Reviewing background information.

  • The intern will produce content in support of the campaign plan.

    Qualifications:

    • Enrolled second or third year undergraduate student.

    • Experience creating social media content.

    • Interest in politics or election reform.

    Duties:

    • Establish social media presence from scratch.

    • Stay informed on Party activities and adjacent current events.

    • Create and publish social media content.

    Workload: Up to 4 hours per week through the end of the academic year.

  • Political - Mariah Shaw Consulting LLC

    Technical - Ben Guise Consulting LLC

  • Tom Joseph: Founder & Treasurer - tsjoseph@mainstreetparty.org

    Lynne Schaefer: Recruiting, Technical & Administrative Support - lschaefer@mainstreetparty.org

Phase 1 Deliverables

Market Research

Survey Raw Data

Software Specs

Committee App

System Demos

Issue Indicator

KYC Login

Leader Board

Project Plans

Budget

Master Plan