Job Type: Part time
The UVA Library StatLab is seeking a Graduate Student Associate for the 2024-2025 academic year. The StatLab Associate will work with the Library’s full-time statisticians to provide statistical consulting and support to UVA students and faculty across disciplines, write online instructional articles, and contribute to data analysis projects (internal to the Library or in collaboration with other organizations) as they arise. Consultations: Help students and faculty develop research designs, identify appropriate statistical analyses, interpret results, carry out data wrangling, and implement models in supported software environments.  Instructional articles: Contribute to StatLab articles, a collection of highly-viewed articles and tutorials explaining common statistical methods, statistical programming, data visualization, and more. Library data science projects: The Library has increasing needs for data science expertise to analyze its own data, prepare new open-source materials, and collaborate on projects with other groups. StatLab contributes to these projects, and Associates will be brought in as new projects develop. Associates will be paid hourly at $24/hour for up to 10 hours a week for 15 weeks each semester, with the possibility of project-based work over the summer. We particularly encourage applications from women, people of color, LGBTQ students, first-generation college students, and students from other groups underrepresented in data science. Required Qualifications: Graduate student standing (at least one year into program)Proficiency in R and a willingness to learn other programs and languages such as Stata, SPSS, or PythonFamiliarity with a range of statistical methods acquired through at least a year of statistical coursework, and a willingness to learn othersStrong oral and written communication skills To apply, submit an application by April 30, 2024 for full consideration, including a resume and cover letter highlighting: Your experience with data analysis, statistical methods, data wrangling, and data visualization in research projects and/or in classworkYour experience with statistical and computational research tools (e.g., languages like R/Python and systems like GitHub)Your research interests and what you hope to gain as a StatLab AssociateFor questions about this position, please contact Jacob Goldstein-Greenwood:   jacobgg@virginia.eduAbout StatLab and Research Data Services at UVA LibraryThe Library’s Research Data Services (RDS) provides expertise around data discovery, data management, and data analysis. Within RDS, StatLab assists with a wide portfolio of quantitative research and contributes to data science education through consultations, collaboration, and training around data science and applied statistics; common challenges and needs include data wrangling and cleaning, analysis and visualization, and statistical inference. RDS/ StatLab staff collectively have expertise in open source programming languages like R and Python, in statistical environments like Stata and SPSS, and in computing technologies like Unix, GitHub, and Overleaf/LaTeX. You can learn more about the StatLab at our website.The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff.  We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences.  We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.