Position Number: GA2253-08
Date of Posting: 11/20/2008
Department: Gottesman Libraries
Reports To: Associate Director
Position Type: Graduate Assistant
Hours: Part time, 20-30 hours per week
Salary: Competitive, plus 3 tuition points/semester
Number of Positions: 1
Application Deadline: Until Filled
Start Date: ASAP
Job Description:
EdLab is a research, design, and development unit at the Gottesman Libraries that engages in work that contributes to the improvement of educational institutions. Graduate Assistants work alongside other EdLab staff on new and ongoing projects, and participate in many of EdLab’s innovative development activities.
Possible areas of focus include:
- Developing software applications. Maintaining and improving existing systems and software. Performing research, testing, and evaluation of potential new systems and software.
- Supporting consulting projects. Addressing the challenges of managing structural change and facilitating organizational innovation in education. Creating high intensity planning events that unleash creativity and accelerate change.
- Producing audio and video media about the future of education, including script writing, capturing, editing, publishing, and project outreach.
- Working on existing print and web publications, such as the Teachers College Record, and proposing and developing new publishing projects collaboratively and with the guidance of an experienced publishing group.
- Designing print and web-based products that enrich a variety of educational exhibitions. Supporting a variety of innovative projects through collaborative research and design processes.
Responsibilities:
- Collaboration on projects
- Project management and development
- Productive engagement of the open atelier environment innovative thinking about educational problems
Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate will have experience in educational research and development, as well as an interest in emerging educational technologies
- Strong skills in relevant software and technology
- Ability to work independently
- Creative, proactive, and responsible
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Applicant should be familiar with EdLab: http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu
Contact Information:
Send vita and cover letter via email only to:
Name: EdLab Recruiter
E-mail: edlabjobs@gmail.com
*If you are interested in more than one position at EdLab, please send only one application and describe all your areas of interest.
Questions may be directed to the Office of Human Resources at: hr@tc.columbia.edu.
Teachers College as an institution has long been committed to a policy of equal opportunity in employment.
Questions may be directed to the Office of Human Resources at: hr@tc.columbia.edu.
Teachers College as an institution has long been committed to a policy of equal opportunity in employment.
