Now hiring Python instructors!

 

Summary

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods is hiring a temporary instructor to teach Python lectures in each of its two three-week sessions. Each of the two three-week sessions are attended by a diverse, multidisciplinary, and international constituency including hundreds of students, faculty, and researchers from across the social sciences and beyond. 

 

The dates of the three-week sessions are:

  • First Session: Monday, June 19 - Friday, July 7, 2023
  • Second Session: Monday, July 17 - Friday, August 4, 2023

 

This Python lecture will be offered in a hybrid format, with both in-person and online participants synchronously, and asynchronous participants watching the lecture recordings. 

 

Course Description

This 3-week (1hr 30min per week-daily session) introductory workshop will first cover the basics of Python as a general-purpose programming language and then highlight some of the Python tools that are particularly useful in the social sciences and related disciplines, including topics like loading data, working with the data, some baseline analyses, creating visualizations, etc. Note that, unlike an introduction to Python that one might typically find in computer science courses, the “Introduction to Python” for the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods should be “applied” in approach, include many hands-on exercises, and emphasize introduction to the techniques, tools, and libraries most likely to be of interest to our participants, primarily graduate students but also faculty, researchers, and practitioners in the social sciences, public policy, public health, and nearby and related fields. 

 

The Python instructor will be expected to work in-person in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Applicants may apply for and be invited to teach the Python lecture in either or both Sessions and are encouraged to indicate their availability and preferences in this regard.

 

Responsibilities

  • Develop course content for 14-15 meeting sessions of approximately 1.5 hours each.
  • Hold daily office hours (virtual is OK, Zoom-accessible required) for Summer Program participants

 

Required Qualifications

  • Experience with quantitative research skills in the social sciences or closely related field
  • Experience with Python
  • Excellent communications skills, both oral and written, in the English language
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills

 

Desired Qualifications

  • PhD
  • Past experience, within the last 2 years, as an instructor in a statistics or relevant methodology course at least at college level
  • Experience teaching statistics/methodology in a multicultural environment
  • Experience with Zoom

 

Required Application Materials

Applicants should combine all of the following application materials into a single PDF document:

  • A one- or two-page cover letter addressing the following:
    • Your specific interest in this position
    • Your training, skills, and experience that directly relate to your qualifications for this position
    • An indication of a sustained commitment to diversity in the academic, professional, or civic realm through your work experience, volunteer engagement, or leadership of student or community organizations. By commitment to diversity, we mean efforts to reduce social, educational, or economic disparities based on race, ethnicity or gender, or to improve race relations.
    • Past ICPSR Summer Program experience as a participant or teaching assistant (if applicable)
  • Current curriculum vitae
  • Contact information for at least 2 references
  • Teaching evaluations (if available)

 

Applicants must upload their single PDF document via Dropbox here: https://www.dropbox.com/request/Zuj6s0eeB2XkvFQjCVRw

 

Application Deadline

February 28, 2023

 

Feb 2, 2023

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