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Boston College Data Services Librarian in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Boston College Introduction
Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.
Job Description
Boston College Libraries are seeking a Data Services Librarian to join our Digital Scholarship Group (DSG). As a member of the DSG, the Data Services Librarian collaborates on designing and driving initiatives, providing current services, and is a valued voice in DSG strategic planning. This position is highly collaborative within the DSG, across the Libraries, and across campus and will be a major contributor to department outreach efforts and relationship building.
A large component of this position will involve working closely with a fellow Data Services Specialist and the DSG head on endeavors to grow existing data services and find new ways for the BC community to engage with data critically. While this position works across disciplines, the disciplinary emphasis is STEM and/or Health Sciences so that the Libraries can better meet the growing needs of Boston College’s programs and the interdisciplinary work being conducted in The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.
The Data Services Librarian is primarily responsible for DSG collaborations and services related to data gathering, manipulation, management, curation, documentation, and data skills training. Such activities include consulting on faculty and student data-driven projects; providing data skills training on data manipulation and management methods, best practices, and tools to faculty and staff; providing data skills instruction for undergraduate and graduate courses, and driving library-based curricula development (i.e., library instruction and modules) and resource creation/collection for data-centric and data science programs.
Please submit BOTH a cover letter and resume with your application.
Full-Time Equivalent Hiring Range: $77,800 to $97,250; salary commensurate with relevant experience.
Requirements
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
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.
Boston College Libraries operate in accordance with our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion values statement (http://library.bc.edu/edi), which is central to our mission. We acknowledge historical, structural, and systemic injustices and are actively working to build a culture that recognizes, values, and empowers all people and provides space for discourse and growth. We expect applicants for this position to demonstrate a commitment to sustaining a respectful, accountable, and intentionally inclusive culture.
Closing Statement
Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
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
Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook
Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.
Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/diversity .
Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .