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Job Announcement: Half-Time Assistant for Digital Society Research

Duties and Essential Job Functions:

The Research Assistant (RA) will perform a variety of research duties and administrative tasks related to research on digital society and inequality by assisting a sociologist in the OSC at Sciences Po in Paris. Tasks to support the research may include (but not limited to) the following:

• Conduct literature searches
• Organize and recruit for interviews
• Assist with conducting interviews
• Code interview data
• Create and visualize descriptive statistics
• Maintain accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects, as necessary
• Translate social media data and other content from French to English
• Prepare research ethics applications and reports
• Collect and analyze descriptive data
• Summarize project results and prepare progress reports
• Assist with the preparation of scholarly reports, presentations and articles
• Organize public reporting of research including web, talks, travel logistics, etc.
• Prepare, maintain, and update website materials related to the research
• Manage and respond to project related email
• Attend seminars and meetings as necessary

Qualifications Required

• Attention to detail, as well as managing the big picture
• Bilingual in French and English
• Ability to work independently and a self-starter
• Willingness to “manage up”: communicating the project’s priorities and seeking feedback, anticipating the next steps needed, and ability to offer well-rounded help on a complex project
• Experience with collaborations and working in teams
• Willingness to learn and expand technical details
• Sophisticated online search skills

Qualifications Preferred

• Comfort working with and structuring messy digitized data, and translating digitized data to different formats (e.g., raw text, json, xml, csv files)
• Knowledge of text encoding and decoding (the machine kind, not the xml kind)
• Some knowledge of data and visualizations
• Data analysis: qualitative and/­or quantitative

Applicants should have either be in a master’s program or have completed one. Doctoral students also encouraged to apply. To apply, please submit a cover letter, CV, writing sample, and the contact information of three professional references as soon as possible to jen.schradie@sciencespo.fr. The position starts as soon as the position is filled. CDD (18 hours/week) for at least a year.