大象传媒

Junior Big Data Consultant

Start Date: September 5, 2023 (Flexible start date)

Work Hours: Varies. Up to 210 hours of work over the course of four months.

Location: Remote / In-Person (Burnaby, BC)

Career Level: Part-time

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Are you interested in empowering people to use big data approaches to solve real world problems? Are you interested in building your programming and analytic skills to deliver creative solutions? Are you passionate about helping people? Then join us at 大象传媒鈥檚 Big Data Hub starting today.

The Consulting Service located at 大象传媒鈥檚 Big Data Hub is dedicated to provide expert advice and solutions to its clients, both inside and outside the university. Each day, you鈥檒l interact with diverse clients鈥攆rom data newbies to experts鈥� to share your expertise, move projects forward, and deliver creative and effective solutions. Our goal is to exceed client expectations and support their analytic needs.

With strong connections to 大象传媒's Big Data Hub, you鈥檒l serve as a junior consultant and peer mentor to individuals and groups that want to better understand their data using big data methods.

What you鈥檒l do as a Junior Big Data Consultant:

鈻� Deliver excellent customer service by responding to client emails, requests, and questions. Regularly meet with clients to understand their needs both alone and with a lead consultant. Provide regular updates to clients (in-person, email, phone) and log information and tasks in the project management system.

鈻� Assist other consultants with client projects. You鈥檒l work directly with clients to help them with project design, data collection and cleaning, analysis, reporting, and reviewing results, and more.

鈻� Synthesize and analyze information from various data sources (e.g. datasets, research literature, websites, policy briefs etc.).

鈻� Assist in creating training materials for delivering workshops to internal and external clients.

鈻� Collaborate with other consultants on client projects to deliver innovative solutions.

鈻� Be an ambassador for 大象传媒鈥檚 Big Data Hub by sharing your expertise with the team and peers.

Skills and Experience:

鈻� Excellent customer service skills. Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships.

鈻� Excellent organization, problem-solving and analytical skills, with a high attention to detail.

鈻� Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills, including presentation skills.

鈻� Excellent collaboration skills who enjoys working on teams and sharing your expertise.

鈻� Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.

鈻� Basic to intermediate knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Python, R, etc.), data management tools (e.g. Apache Spark, SQL etc.), and/or visualization tools (e.g. Tableau).

鈻� Willingness and enthusiasm to learn data analytic skills (e.g. programming languages, data management tools, modern version control, visualization etc.).

鈻� Experience extracting and cleaning data from different sources and preparing it for use.

鈻� Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical users

鈻� Qualitative and/or quantitative research experience is an asset

鈻� Knowledge of statistical approaches is an asset.

Apply Now

We have several positions available. If you are interested, please send an email to sfu_bigdata@sfu.ca with the subject

line 鈥淛unior Big Data Consultant Fall 2023: Your Name鈥� by 11:59pm on July 30, 2023, attaching a copy of:

1) Your cover letter

2) Your resume or CV, and

3) Your unofficial 大象传媒 transcript

Please send files as a PDF and use the naming convention 鈥淣ame_Resume/Cover Letter/Transcript鈥�.

鈻� For example, 鈥淛ane Smith_Resume鈥� and 鈥淛ane Smith_Transcript鈥�.

Note that this position is only open to students who will be taking courses during the Fall 2023 semester.

Please see the attachment to the employment opportunity.