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Boston College · 2 days ago

Data Services Librarian

Chestnut Hill, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$78K/yr - $97K/yr

2+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Collaborate on designing and driving initiatives within the Digital Scholarship Group (DSG).

Provide data gathering, manipulation, management, curation, documentation, and data skills training.

Consult on faculty and student data-driven projects.

Provide data skills training on data manipulation and management methods, best practices, and tools to faculty and staff.

Provide data skills instruction for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Drive library-based curricula development and resource creation/collection for data-centric and data science programs.

Qualification

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Data ManagementData CleaningData MiningNumeric Data AnalysisProblem-SolvingCommunicationAcademic LibrariesSurvey MicrodataSTEM BackgroundHealth Sciences BackgroundData Skills TrainingClassroom InstructionStatistical ToolsSPSSStataData VisualizationPythonR

Required

A master’s degree in Library and Information Science or a closely related, data-intensive research field.

2-3 years of relevant experience.

Demonstrated experience in providing data curation, management, cleaning, and mining services; using data and related technologies to support teaching or research.

Working with numeric data in an academic, scientific, or corporate environments.

The ability to engage with research across a variety of disciplines, including STEM and/or health sciences, and a range of audiences, from undergraduate and graduate students to faculty, instructors, and staff.

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Preferred

Experience working in academic libraries.

Experience working with survey microdata, restricted data, or similarly complex data.

A STEM and/or health sciences background, be it through education or work experience.

Demonstrated experience in proving data skills training and classroom instruction (oral, written, and video tutorials, etc.) using statistical tools, especially SPSS and Stata.

Data visualization experience.

Data cleaning, creation, and analysis using coding languages such as Python or R.

Benefits

Tuition remission for Employees

Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements

Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Low-Cost Life Insurance

Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans

Paid Holidays Annually

Generous Sick and Vacation Pay

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Boston College

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Boston College is a private Jesuit Catholic research university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Founded in 1863

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

http://www.bc.edu/

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