Carpentries Clippings, 21 April 2021

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Community News & Updates from Our Committees / Task Forces

The Carpentries Year 1 Strategic Plan Update
In January of 2020, The Carpentries published our Strategic Plan for 2020-2025. Read our recently published update on progress towards the Strategic Plan

African Carpentries Community Monthly Meetups
The African Carpentries Community monthly meetups have been running since 2017. Here we discuss topics that are of interest to our instructors in the African context, including available resources, opportunities, events, and more. Join our first session, on 22 April 2021 12:00 - 13:00 SAST/10:00-11:00 UTC. You can signup on our Etherpad. To join the conversation about The Carpentries in Africa, sign up at Topicbox and join the Slack channel #african-carpentries.

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Carpentries Trainer Training May-July 2021
Apply to become an Instructor Trainer and shape the next generation of Carpentries Instructors!

Foundations of Astronomical Data Science - Call for Beta Pilot Applications
Apply to host or teach a beta pilot workshop for the newest Data Carpentry curriculum

Community Opportunity Postings

• Force11 is hosting an Open Science Training Community Call on 27 April at 10:00 UTC
• The Banbury Center will be hosting a conference later this year, and the nomination period is open now. Learn more in their announcement and information sheet.
• The Alan Turing Institute is hiring an Educational Technologist.

• Data for Black Lives, an organization “committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people” is hiring a Managing Director.

• Invest in Open Infrastructure, an organization “dedicated to improving funding and resourcing for open technologies and systems supporting research and scholarship” is hiring for a Research Data Analyst.

• The Software Sustainability Institute, an organization that “facilitates the advancement of software in research by cultivating better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research.” is hiring a Data Steward Content Creator and a Training Fellowship Coordinator. 

• Data Dryad is looking for an Executive Director and Data Curator.

• 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 for the following positions:

  • Assistant Professor of Data Science/Analytics (Tenure Track)

  • Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computational Physics/Data Science (Tenure Track)

• Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology (Statistics/ Data Analytics/Social Justice Tenure Track)

• The Morehouse School of Medicine is hiring for the following positions:

• Assistant/Associate Professor-Bioinformatician

• Director I, Data Analytics and Integrity

• Stanford Libraries is hiring a Head of Software and Services. 

• University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US is hiring a Director for the Data Science Institute.

• 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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