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Job Posting: TA in Health Informatics

Posted by Computer Science on July 21, 2015 in Job Postings

Teaching Assistant for HINF 6030: Statistics for Health Informatics

Application Deadline: August 10th, 2015
Position: Teaching Assistant (September-December 2015)
Department/Location: Health Informatics (Computer Science)
Pay Rate: $931 (TA 45, in accordance with CUPE CA)

Duties include, but are not limited to:

1.         Conducting 1 tutorial a week, time and place TBD
2.         Course administration. e.g. Blackboard
3.         Assist Instructor when needed
4.         Meeting with students for assistance, when needed
5.         Be available to assist with invigilating examinations

Requirements of Position:

The TA will be required to prepare and conduct introductory R tutorials once a week.  The tutorials will cover the basics of data handling and data manipulation, basic descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing and model fitting.  Some support will be provided by the instructor, but the TA is expected to prepare material to present to the students, therefore expertise in R is a must.

If you are interested in the above position, please apply in writing by the application deadline to:

Sam Stewart
sam.stewart@dal.ca
(902) 494-6287

All offers of employment are conditional upon sufficient student enrollment in the course and approval by the University.