Associate Director

Job Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between the ERC and the undergraduate student body
• Recruit and train help desk and instructional staff, including undergraduate fellows and graduate assistants.
• Oversee the scheduling and supervision of ERC lab staff and dedicated ERC Fellows
• With the SAD, provide instructional services including:
• Workshops for Barnard faculty and students on data analysis, with programs such as (but not limited to): Excel/Google sheets; R/STATA; ArcGIS/QGIS, etc.
• One-on-one or small group consultations with faculty and students on those same topics; or with faculty to more carefully assess and implement appropriate data analysis technologies available that will achieve desired learning outcomes and goals.
• Individual and group consultations to guide students and faculty through basic research design and data analysis to interpreting and visualizing results.
• Develop instructional and training material for workshops and the ERC’s website including online video recordings of training sessions
• Maintain inventory of workshop materials to ensure access and quality
• Create and maintain a library of additional, accessible online training materials
• Collect and analyze relevant assessment data and present/report on results for strategic planning and scholarly contributions
• Lead/support the ERC initiative to migrate all of Barnard statistics/data analysis courses to open-access and open-source software.
• Perform additional administrative duties and responsibilities as needed to ensure efficient office operations.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, social justice, and inclusive excellence
• Graduate degree (master’s level or higher) with 1 to 3 years’ work experience in a relevant subject/field area or a bachelor’s degree with 3 to 5 years’ work experience
• Understanding of the research process as demonstrated by academic or work experience.
• Advanced knowledge of or experience with Excel/Google sheets and one or more of the following: Stata, ArcGIS/QGIS, R, Python, Tableau, PowerBI, Qualtrics.
• Demonstrated knowledge or willingness to become familiar with the concepts, pedagogy, research, and scholarly trends in empirical research.
• An aptitude for or experience in teaching or training and developing instructional content and documentation
• Knowledge of statistical methods, data analysis, and data visualization