Teaching Assistants Programming/digital Expertise - Amsterdam, Nederland - Universiteit van Amsterdam

Universiteit van Amsterdam

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Amsterdam, Nederland

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Geplaatst door:

Daan Van den Berg

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Beschrijving

Teaching Assistants Programming/Digital Expertise for BSc Computational Social Science

Faculteit/Dienst:
Faculteit der Maatschappij

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Opleidingsniveau:Universiteit
Functie type:Ondersteunend Beheer Personeel
Sluitingsdatum:19 May 2024
Vacaturenummer:12969In September 2022, a brand new Bachelor's programme at the UvA welcomed its first students: Computational Social Science. This interdisciplinary programme is a collaboration between the faculties of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG), Science (FNWI) and Humanities (FGw).

Students learn how to analyse 'real world' data on complex societal issues such as climate change, global health and digital surveillance to identify opportunities for (behavioural and systems) change and to design evidencebased intervention strategies. They will programme handson tools that support sustainable digital innovation and contribute to making the world a better place
Computational Social Science is an Englishtaught programme with a unique curriculum that is solely made up of project driven, semesterlong courses of 30 EC. More information can be found here.
What are you going to do

Digital Expertise (DE) plays an essential role in all teaching and learning within Computational Social Science. There will be guest lectures, practical sessions, and components of student group projects devoted to DE content.

As a Teaching Assistant for first year students and or second year students, you will mostly be:

providing feedback and grading weekly individual DE assignments

- supervising practical sessions answering digital expertise-related questions from students

Within our programme, each semesterlong course has a fixed weekly schedule for all lectures, workshops, practical sessions and deadlines.
Practical sessions in DE for the firstyear course (_Foundation: Appreciating the complexity of social challenges_) in (Python) programming are mostly scheduled on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Practical sessions in DE for the secondyear course (_Connections: Linking data for better interventions in health and mobility systems_) in ML, NLP and network analysis will mostly take place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and possibly Friday (afternoons).
You will be assigned to a fixed group of students for the duration of 20 weeks (i.e. one semester). Each group will consist of 1520 students.

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What do you offer

It would be a huge asset if you have (some) experience as a Teaching Assistant or in some form of individual or group supervision.
You have an excellent command of the English language (verbal & written)
Your schedule allows for quite some flexibility in working hours.
Furthermore:
For Year 1:
You are a senior year Bachelor's student or a Master's student, preferably enrolled in the University of Amsterdam;
You have successfully completed the courses _Scientific Programming 1_ and/or _Scientific Programming 2_ _
OR:
You have successfully completed courses that included (for a minimum of 12EC):1. "pandas" and data visualisation
2. programming, preferably in Python* _If you are not familiar with Python but are experienced in other programming languages, it will not be a deal breaker. You should be willing to study Python before the start of the next academic year. To this end, you could study materials from the courses Scientific Programming 1 and 2 in your own time. _
For Year 2:
You are a senior year Bachelor's student or a Master's student, preferably enrolled in the University of Amsterdam
You have successfully completed courses that included (for a minimum of 12EC):
Machine learning (supervised and unsupervised methods in Scikit-learn and Statsmodels)
Natural language processing (Gensim, nltk, spacy)
Network analysis (networkx)
Programming, preferably in Python
Scraping of static and dynamic websites (selenium, scrapy, Beautiful Soup)
API access and usage
Applicants should possess demonstrated expertise in a subset of the advertised skill areas and exhibit a strong willingness to learn and expand their knowledge in the remaining areas.
Please note: Current students of the BSc Computational Social Science cannot be considered for the role of Digital Expertise TA._

What do we offer you
The position is temporary for a period from 29 August 2024 until 2 February 2025. Depending on the year of study, the salary range is €2618;
- to €2846;
- gross per month (Student Assistant salary grade, pursuant to the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities) based on a full-time workweek.

For TAs in Year 1, the number of working hours per week is 810. For TAs in Year 2, the number of working hours per week is 1016, depending on your availability.
About us
The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest spectrum of degree programmes. It is an intellectual hub with 39,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 doctoral studen