Graduate Assistant - LIbrary/OGRS - spring 2026

Seton Hall University•South Orange, NJ

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About The Position

Seton Hall University Libraries is pleased to seek an innovative Graduate Assistant (GA) for Research Data Services, University Libraries. In this position, the GA will be responsible for maintaining daily activities such assisting students and faculty with Data consultations, assigning software licenses, troubleshooting technical questions, and managing the workshop calendar. This position requires knowledge of research methods: quantitative and/or qualitative as well as two or more supporting programs. The GA position will conduct workshops and training for the SHU community.

Requirements

Applicant must have a Bachelor's degree and be admitted to a at Seton Hall University graduate degree before applying
Applicant must maintain complete confidentiality of students and scholars' data
Applicant must have knowledge with two or more data analysis programs (Excel, SPSS, STATA, R, Python, Atlas.ti, ArcGIS, PowerBI, Tableau, MATLAB,or other)
Experience with quantitative and/or qualitative research methods
Applicant must have excellent communication skills (writing, speaking, and listening)
Applicant must work 20 hours per week following the University Calendar, not the
Experience with quantitative and/or qualitative research methods
Experience teaching, tutoring, training, or mentoring (1-2 years)

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS
Experience with Shell scripting, Linux commands and Python
Experience with technical writing Experience with statistical analysis or Machine Learning.
IRB CITI training certificate

Responsibilities

Assist data services team in data consultations for students and scholars
Respond quickly to faculty and student support requests and handle (software requests should be handled in a timely manner
Prepare reports for workshops attendance and data consultations
Assist with administrative tasks such as scheduling classes, updating the RDS website and blog, coordinating scheduling and paperwork for student research projects
Create webpage content for data services webpage
Teach workshops and/or classes
Create outreach initiatives to promote data services.
Create flyers and marketing materials for data services.
Be able to consistently learn new data analysis tools
Collect and analyze data
Conduct literature reviews
Assist with tasks and projects as assigned by the supervisor as project priorities may shift over the semester
Maintain clear communication with supervisors regarding any issues that arise