Job opening: Professor of Data Science
Salary: $90 730 - 146 476 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Sep 13 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Position: This is a full-time faculty position as provided under Title 10 USC. Initial appointment may be up to three years, the first of which may be a trial period. Appointment may be renewed in one- to five-year increments thereafter. Academic rank and salary will be based on academic credentials, experience, and professional accomplishments.
Duties
Assist and advise faculty in integrating data science across all courses, programs, and curricula to improve the data literacy of senior decision makers and advisors.
Develop and lead faculty development activities to increase faculty skills to more effectively teach data science.
Increase student data literacy to enable them to leverage data in senior-level decision making.
Serve as a US Army War College expert on data analytics, big data, artificial intelligence, and business intelligence.
Incorporate data analytics, big data, artificial intelligence, and business intelligence into exercises and gaming efforts.
Teach, conduct research, and provide internal/external service relating to the items described above.
Engage in outreach; identify best practices; connect and develop relationships with academic, civilian, and military institutions.
Advise faculty and student research efforts.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret security clearance.
- Must comply with the Drug Testing Program requirements (pre-employment testing and random testing after being appointed).
- This position has a travel requirement up to 20% of the time.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
This is a full-time term appointment in the excepted service not to exceed 3 years starting on or about summer 2025. Must be available to begin employment no later than 1 July 2025. Appointment may be extended in up to five-year increments thereafter. As a term employee you will be eligible for medical insurance, life insurance, retirement, dental and vision. You will be eligible earn annual leave and sick leave.
Qualification Requirements:
Degree: behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position; or Combination of education and experience that provided the applicant with knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field; or Four years of appropriate experience that demonstrated that the applicant has acquired knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field.
In addition to meeting the Qualification Requirements above, applicants will be rated on the following:
SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR/KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Applicants will be rated on the criteria listed below:
1. Graduate degree in a discipline relating to data science and data literacy with a PhD or equivalent strongly preferred.
2. Skill in all aspects of data science, to include collection, storage, access, analysis and presentation/visualization. Practical experience applying these processes for senior decision makers at the enterprise level is strongly desired.
3. Demonstrated ability to present data and analysis into formats meaningful and impactful to the target audience. Ability to articulate to senior decision makers the strengths and weaknesses of various methods and approaches.
4. Teaching at the undergraduate, graduate or Senior Service College (SSC) level. Experience at the graduate or SSC level is preferred. Sustained practitioner experience may be substituted with demonstrated potential for graduate level teaching.
5. Record of scholarship in areas relevant to data science or senior leader data literacy.
6. Demonstrated ability and willingness to form and lead collective cross-functional research & analysis project teams. Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work collegially with diverse (military, civilian, foreign) graduate students, and faculty. Extensive professional network is desired.
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Contacts
- Address BR-W2H6AA US ARMY WAR COLLEGE
DO NOT MAIL
Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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