Carpentries Clippings, 1 July 2021

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Community News & Updates from Our Committees / Task Forces

Director of Community Development and Engagement Transition
The Carpentries Director of Community Development and Engagement and Community Development Team lead, Serah Njambi Rono, is departing her position to pursue new opportunities. Her final working day at The Carpentries will be July 30. Erin Becker, the Associate Director of The Carpentries, will lead the Community Development team while we search for Serah’s successor. Read a message from Serah in this blog post. (Thank you Serah for all of your work with The Carpentries!) 

Announcing our New Curriculum Team Lead
Starting June 2021, Carpentries Curriculum Community Developer Toby Hodges has been the Curriculum Team lead. Please read this blog post by Toby and former Curriculum Team Lead Erin Becker for more information.

Registration for CarpentryConnect South Africa 2021 now open!

Apply for the current round of Carpentries Maintainer Onboarding!

The Carpentries is preparing to onboard the next round of Maintainers. Applications are open now. Learn more about the role and apply in this blog post. Applications due 16 July, 2021

Announcing Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award to advance The Carpentries Equity and Inclusion goals for training researchers of color.

The Carpentries has been awarded an 18-month grant to advance equitable outcomes in data literacy for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous researchers in the U.S. Learn more about this work in this recently published blog post.

What You May Have Missed on The Carpentries Blog

Carpentries Community Conversation with the Executive Council
This blog post is a summary of the two community conversations with the Carpentries Executive Council in February 2021, facilitated by Serah Rono and Dr. Kari L. Jordan.

Sharing our new Code of Conduct Facilitators Module
Code of Conduct facilitation is part of the Carpentries Community Facilitators Program. We welcome your review and suggestions on our new Carpentries Code of Conduct Facilitators module

First Software Carpentry Workshop in Japanese
This blog post highlights lessons learned from the first Software Carpentry workshop taught online in Japanese.

Community Opportunity Postings

• Grant Opportunity: The Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF) Women in Research Essential Grant Writing Skills Workshop. | Opportunities For Africans

• The Carpentries is looking for a contract UI Developer to work on the next iteration of the lesson template

• Code for Science & Society has several open positions including:

  • Event Fund Program Manager

  • Operations Manager

  • Technical Support Manager - OpenReview

• Open Research Funders Group seeks a Civic Science Fellow to help develop, launch, and oversee an Open & Equitable Model Funding Program to address inequities in the research community.

• Stanford University in the US is hiring a Cartographic Project Metadata Librarian

• Carnegie Mellon University in the US is hiring several Library Positions

• TU Delft in the Netherlands is hiring a Data Steward

• The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is hiring a Neutron Data and Computing Program Manager

• Data Dryad is looking for an Executive Director

• Clark Atlanta University in the US is hiring for the following positions:

  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Machine Learning(007-21)

  • Assistant/Associate Professor: Cyber Physical Systems(085-20)

  • Assistant Professor: Math(035-21)

  • Assistant Professor: Math II(036-21)

  • Assistant/Associate Professor of Decision Science and Supply Chain Management(022-20)

• Morehouse College in the US is hiring an Assistant Professor of Data Science/Analytics (Tenure Track)

• The Morehouse School of Medicine is hiring a Director I, Data Analytics and Integrity

• North Carolina State University in the US is hiring a Research Solutions Consultant.

• The Harvard University, School of Public Health is accepting applications for a Research Associate - Bioinformatics Trainer and Analyst.

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