Colleagues, Emory University is now advertising to solicit applications
for Coordinator of its Social Science Computing Center. If you know
qualified and potentially interested individuals, please encourage them
to apply. (And feel free to forward this message as desired.) The job
advertisement is as follows:
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IT Specialist, Social Science Computing Center
Emory University
Job Requisition ID: 7923BR
http://www.emory.jobs
*General:* This position functions as Coordinator for the Social Science
Computing Center at Emory University, providing strategic direction and
managing all operations in the Center, as well as providing operational
support and strategic advice for statistical computing (and GIS) in
Emory College and the University Technology Services group.
*Specific Job Responsibilities: *
* Provides ongoing operational support for the Social Science
Computing Center.
* Primary liaison responsible for the technical needs of Political
Science and Sociology Departments in the Social Sciences Computing
Center.
* Provide strategic advice on the support of qualitative and
quantitative statistical software and pedagogy for Emory College,
UTS, and the University Libraries.
* Coordinate with other Centers for Educational Technology on
operations, training, strategy, and computer management.
* Some training sessions should be offered each year; possible
topics include using Stata or some other statistical package,
instruction on collaborative software, introduction to the LaTeX
typesetting language, and/or instruction on GIS in the social
sciences (with Michael Page from Woodruff Library).
* Serve as campus technical contact for SPSS
* Serve as campus distribution contact for Stata.
* Consult with faculty and students, as applicable, on statistical
methodology, research methods, qualitative methods, interpreting
statistical results, and similar support of research in the social
sciences.
* Oversee one undergraduate assistant.
* Coordinate with the University Libraries Electronic Data Services
Center and Geospatial Data Librarian on instructional or research
support tasks.
*Minimum Qualifications:*
A bachelor's degree and five years of experience evaluating, testing
and/or recommending technology or an equivalent combination of
education, training and experience. The applicant will have a strong
background in statistics; strong multiplatform skills with using,
diagnosing, and re-imaging computers (e.g. using Symantec Ghost, Carbon
Copy Cloner or LANDesk); and at least some background in social science
research methods.
The preferred applicant will also have some computer programming skills;
experience scripting Mac OS X and Unix or Linux; GIS experience;
specific experience with Stata, SPSS, and R; and an advanced degree in a
social science discipline.
*Please direct job inquiries to:*
Kim Braxton
Manager, Emory Centers for Educational Technology
Emory University
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Eric Reinhardt
Director of Graduate Admissions and Placement
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
Emory University
1555 Dickey Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
Voice: 404-727-4977, Fax: 404-727-4586
http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~erein/
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