Data Scientist, Humanities and Social Sciences
- Employer
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Closing date
- 22 Oct 2019
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- Academic Discipline
- Art, Performing Arts & Design, Education, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
- Job Type
- Professional Services, IT Services
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Salary: $72,083 - $97,812 (Level A)
Role & Superannuation rate: Academic - Full time - 9.5% super
Indigenous Australians seeking support to apply for a vacancy are encouraged to contact the Faculty of Arts Human Resources team by emailing their contact details and position number to arts-hr@unimelb.edu.au
The Faculty of Arts and the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne are seeking to appoint two Data Scientists. This unique and new opportunity for data scientists to be embedded with Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) researchers will be responsible for delivering computing, visualisation and informatics expertise across a range of digital research projects at the University.
Working as a member of the SCIP team, each Data Scientist will have specialist information technology expertise to support projects which may include: data science and analysis; digital ethnography, archeology and heritage; data and information visualisation; metadata specification and modelling for diverse media including text, AV and VR; social media scraping; web design; research tool design, training and documentation; needs assessment; and data curation methods to assure sustainability. We will seek complementary skills in the Data Scientists, ranging from user interface design and data visualisation to software engineering.
The Humanities and Social Sciences Data Scientist will be based within the Social & Cultural Informatics Platform under the direct report and supervision of the Platform Manager, and the team will be housed in the two supporting Faculties. SCIP is a University of Melbourne initiative to support digital scholarship, strategic partnerships and engagement between HASS academics and the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, Scholarly Services, Research Platform Services; as well as to support the University’s participation in the national research infrastructure landscape.
Position Description
Applications close: 22 Oct 2019 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Company
The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.
Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.
Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.
Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.
The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.
In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.
More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.
For more information please visit: http://www.unimelb.edu.au
*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015
- Mini-site
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
- Telephone
- +61 (3) 8344 4000
- Location
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Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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