Darden Technical Research Assistant - Remote (Student Wage)

Darden is hiring research assistants for the academic year who will report directly to Darden faculty or the Office of Research Services. This posting is for multiple positions. Work may include cleaning and parsing data, web scraping, data engineering and data documentation. Potential topics include marketing, economics/finance, leadership characteristics, entrepreneurship, and other topics relevant to faculty research initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create/engineer data sets by utilizing publicly available information
• Assist with preparation and storage of large datasets
• Provide documentation on created datasets
• Pull data from reports, the web, and other sources
• Manipulate and prepare datasets for analysis.
• Other duties as assigned

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to read through multiple reports, mine public databases, and distill information into a database (excel spreadsheet or other data formats).
• Familiarity with big datasets
• Experience with Python, Java, SQL, and/or Solidity
• Very strong written and verbal communication
• Strong synthesis skills (reading and summarizing arguments)
• Strong attention to detail
• Able to work independently while balancing multiple projects
• Willing to attack a problem from different angles when the first approach does not work
• Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Position is open to students in business, accounting, economics, social sciences, humanities, statistics, math, computer science, data science, or other disciplines with strong programming and computational skills.

Hourly pay rate depends on level of education. Students pursing a:

• 4-year degree: $16.00/hour
• MA Degree: $19.00/hour
• Ph.D. Degree: $25/hour

Positions offers 10-20 hours/week. Position is remote, but student must physically reside in the United States.

Please include a resume and cover letter with your application.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Current UVA student
Experience: None
Licensure: None

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This is primarily a sedentary job involving extensive use of desktop computers. The job does occasionally require traveling some distance to attend meetings, and programs.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff.  We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences.  We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, and family medical or genetic information.