Dear Colleagues, I'm hiring a project manager (either pre- or post-doc) for an NSF-funded extension to the Digital Society Project (http://digitalsocietyproject.org/, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2121851). I have included the core job description below. You can find the full job description and application here: https://t.co/N354EzCiLo. The position is open until filled, but we'll start reviewing applications after March 18. This is a fully benefited position, currently funded for 3 years. Annual compensation for a pre-doc hire is $40-50k, depending on qualifications. A post-doc will make $50-$55k. Please do not hesitate to reach out with questions. Dan The Center for the Study of Digital Society (CSDS) invites applications for a Research Project Manager. Funded by a National Science Foundation Human Networks and Data Science Infrastructure (HNDS-I) grant, this is a full-time benefited position offering the exciting opportunity to launch a new data collection initiative with the objective of providing transparent and high-quality data about digital politics. Specifically, the goals of this NSF-funded project are to: 1. Cultivate a cross-national pool of internet governance, cybersecurity, digital privacy, and social media experts to provide cross-national indicators of internet governance and cybersecurity capacity and practice; 2. Collect expert assessments of internet governance and cyber-security practices across the world, going back about 20 years, and apply measurement modeling techniques to these data to produce high quality indicators, accompanied by estimates of measurement uncertainty; 3. Develop new statistical tools to improve the quality of large-scale cross-contextual expert surveys, focusing particularly on how to produce cross-contextually consistent measures of latent concepts at minimal cost; and 4. Expand a massive database of politically relevant geo-coded tweets and integrate it with our data on internet politics. The candidate who joins our team in this position will be play a critical role in building this NSF-funded project. The successful candidate will also assist PIs with data analysis and report writing and may help conduct outreach activities and conduct independent and/or collaborative research. We are interested in two types of applicants for this position. The first type of applicant will hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and meet at least the minimum qualifications for the position. If hired, such applicants would spend about 50% of their time conducting program management and outreach, and about 50% of their time assisting with data analysis, report writing, and other scientific tasks. The second type of applicant will hold a Ph.D., meet the minimum qualifications for the position, and demonstrate multiple preferred qualifications. If hired, such applicants would spend about 40% of their time on program management, and about 60% of their time designing, executing, and publishing collaborative and/or independent research products related to project. Exceptional communication and organizational skills are essential. Candidates holding a Ph.D. should demonstrate substantial expertise in digital politics research and/or quantitative methods. -- Dan Pemstein Associate Professor, Political Science & Public Policy North Dakota State University http://www.danpemstein.com