Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,654 full-time undergraduates and 5,072 graduate and professional students. Ranked 37 among national universities, Boston College has 923 full-time and 1,336 FTE faculty, 2,822 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.9 billion.
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, throughout the Libraries, particularly in the cohort (which consists of the DSG, instruction team, and subject liaisons), and across campus.
The Data Services Librarian is primarily responsible for DSG collaborations and services related to data gathering, manipulation, management, curation, documentation, and skills training. Such activities include consulting on faculty and student data-driven projects; providing data skills instruction and training on data manipulation and management methods, best practices, and tools in person and through curriculum resource development, e.g., module and online resource creation. These responsibilities are heavily front-facing and involve a significant amount of one-on-one and classroom engagement with undergraduate and graduate students.
A large component of this position will involve working closely with a fellow Data Services Librarian and the DSG head on endeavors to grow existing data services and find new ways for the BC community to critically engage with data. It is important that the person in this role is comfortable working across disciplines with a range of data types, including economic and business-related data, which is in high demand from our Economics and Carroll School of Management students. It is also important that the person in this position is comfortable with relationship building and public communication, as everyone in the department contributes to outreach.
Please include BOTH a cover letter and resume. Boston College can not offer sponsorship for this position
Full-Time Equivalent Hiring Range: $82,100 to $102,650; salary commensurate with relevant experience.
A master’s degree in Library and Information Science or a closely related, data-intensive research field, plus 2-3 years of relevant experience
Demonstrated experience in
Providing data skills training and classroom instruction (oral, written, and video tutorials, etc.);
Providing research support for students and faculty through data consultations and curation, management, cleaning, and mining services;
Working with numeric data in academic, scientific, or corporate environments
The ability to engage with research across a variety of disciplines, including economics and business, and a range of audiences, from undergraduate and graduate students to faculty and staff
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Experience working in academic libraries;
Experience working with big data, survey microdata, text data, or similarly complex data;
Experience working with library data resources, data subscription platforms (like WRDS), and publicly available data (like FRED)
Demonstrated experience in
Data visualization and communication;
Data cleaning, creation, and analysis using coding languages such as Python or R;
Geospatial data and GIS technologies;
Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.
Boston College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected category, including disability and protected veteran status. Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination.
