[Matthew K. Gold (he/him)]

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From: heather froehlich <hfroehlich.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:57 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Job: Text Analysis Instructor, ITHAKA
To: <institute@lists.uvic.ca>, <corpora@uib.no>

Dear all,

The folks at JSTORlabs are seeking a Text Analysis Instructor to support
their current quantitative methods offerings. See the below advertisement
for more information.

Best wishes,
Heather Froehlich

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*Title: *Text Analysis Instructor, ITHAKA

*Work Location: *Ann Arbor, MI or Remote

*The Role*

ITHAKA is seeking a Text Analysis Instructor to join the Constellate team (
https://constellate.org/). The team develops Constellate, an online
platform for teaching, learning, and research in text analysis using Python
and Jupyter notebooks. In this role, you will work on a cross-functional,
close-knit team to develop educational resources and teach training
workshops.

Constellate enables schools of all sizes to teach data and text analytics
with a platform that empowers faculty, librarians, and other instructors to
educate a new generation of learners in text and data analysis. Our
solution, centered on student and researcher success, provides text and
data analysis capabilities and access to content from some of the world’s
most respected databases in an open environment with a variety of teaching
materials that can be used, modified, and shared.

The role will be responsible for teaching regular courses in text analysis
to Constellate users, demonstrating features of the platform, increasing
user competency in text analysis, and building communities of practice. The
role will also work closely with the rest of the Constellate team, joining
in discussions around development and marketing.

This role is best performed by a person with a high level of natural
curiosity, that is eager to learn, and with an inclination to action. The
role will sometimes require moving forward on concepts that are only
loosely defined. A person that is self-motivated and able to work with
relatively high-level direction will do best in this role.

Our organization and this role are unique and will give you opportunities
few other places can offer including:

– Teach professional development courses for higher education
professionals with a worldwide reach
– Author open educational resources with opportunities for large-scale
adoption
– Build communities of practice and exchange around text analysis
pedagogy
– Access to corpora of rich content and associated “big data” in the
development of tools and applications (JSTOR, Portico, etc.)
– Ability to have a large impact, due to JSTOR’s high traffic and
visibility
– Participate in directional decisions and development for Constellate

As a member of the Constellate team and the ITHAKA organization, the Text
Analysis Instructor will have access to a diverse, knowledgeable, and
helpful group of colleagues. Occasional travel may be required (up to 2-3
times per year), most often to our Ann Arbor and New York City offices.

*Responsibilities*

As a Text Analysis Instructor on the Constellate team, this role will
provide opportunities to support the Constellate platform in several
fashions. The primary responsibility will be writing—and teaching
with—Jupyter notebooks for educators. A strong applicant will have
experience teaching Python, especially Natural Language Processing
libraries such as Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), Gensim, spaCy, TextBlob,
Word2Vec, and StanfordCoreNLP. Experience with Keras, TensorFlow, or
Sci-Kit Learn is a plus. Applicants will be assessed based on their ability
to create high-quality instruction materials and teach with those
materials. They should be prepared to teach face-to-face and in virtual
settings to audiences of various disciplines and skill levels, including
data science, social sciences, and the digital humanities.

*Experience and Skills*

This position requires an instructor with experience in rule-based and
data-based NLP. The instructor should be a life-time learner, driven to
learn new methods in response to current research and educational trends.
In addition to text analysis skills, the instructor should be prepared to
develop educational materials such as images, audio, and video where
appropriate.

Relevant skill areas are listed below in relative order of importance to
the role.

– Experience with text analysis to derive information from large text
corpora of unstructured data. Examples would include experience with word
vectorization and machine learning.
– Experience teaching technical classes or workshops (virtual or
face-to-face contexts). An ability to take technical, complex topics and
express them clearly. Image, audio, and video editing are significant
benefits.
– A background in Data Science, Social Sciences, or Digital Humanities
would be valuable in this role, especially with established connections to
the larger academic community. Community-building experience is a benefit.

*Work For ITHAKA*

At ITHAKA we believe in openness and equity. Part of living those values is
our commitment to clarity about salary, so candidates know what to expect.
The pay range for this position is ($65,000 – $75,000) per year. Base pay
may vary with job-related knowledge, skills, experience, market location,
and geography. Our total compensation package includes a no-cost health
insurance premium option, an employer-funded retirement plan, and a
generous paid time off program for all benefits-eligible staff.

We are committed to our organizational values of belonging, evidence,
speed, teamwork, and trust. Our team is passionate about our mission and
supporting one another. We enjoy working together to create opportunities
for people to learn and grow out in the world, and we bring that same
commitment to helping our teammates develop in our careers and our lives.
One of our core values is belonging. We embrace differences, and believe
that the things that make each of us unique are the things that help us see
new insights and build better solutions.

Learn more about Working at ITHAKA (https://www.ithaka.org/careers/).

*Apply Now:*

Interested candidates can submit their resume, a detailed cover letter, and
salary requirements at
https://recruiting.ultipro.com/ITH1000ITHAK/JobBoard/5fe90ad4-9e26-490b-9c45-6c9669d4dcd0/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=d2f815f8-cf53-42e5-a17c-fe67e234849e
.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All
qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to
race, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation,
age, religion, domestic violence victim status, veteran status, disability,
history of disability or perceived disability, or other status protected by
law.

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Dr Heather Froehlich
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