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Data Ambassador Council (Undergraduate and Graduate)

Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science
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Connolly Alexander Institute for Data Science (CAIDS)

Data Ambassador Council 

Graduate or Undergraduate

Position Summary 

CAIDS seeks a diverse cohort of undergraduate and graduate students to serve on the Data Ambassador Council (DAC). This Council will communicate to the student body about CAIDS initiatives and student opportunities and act as a student-led focus group, providing insight to CAIDS about the needs of Tulane students around courses, programming, and initiatives related to data. When engaging with the student body about CAIDS initiatives, DAC ambassadors will create and explore opportunities for building accessible communities around data. 

 

Supervisor: 

This position reports to the Associate Director of Student Engagement and will work closely with the team’s product developer and CAIDS faculty and staff. 

 

Duration: 

Students will serve in this position from August to December with a possible opportunity to be invited back in the Spring.   

 

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Undergraduate students in this role will be paid $18.00 an hour and graduate students in this role will be paid $20.00 an hour. Students in this role will be asked to commit three (3) hours of scheduled work per week for at least 12 weeks per semester. Students are required to attend regularly (weekly) scheduled meetings with their supervisor and complete training as part of their hours. Students in this role are not expected to work during student holidays, breaks, and exam periods.

 

Job Duties

CAIDS Ambassadors will: 

  • Complete required training and engage through reading/viewing and discussion of required materials about data literacy, as requested from their faculty supervisor or the Associate Director of Student Engagement.
  • Attend twelve Data events on campus a year, representing CAIDS (as your schedule allows). 
  • Create and implement (after approval) a community engagement goal, working with CAIDS staff. 
  • Foster a positive community when brainstorming, storyboarding, and sharing ideas about CAIDS programming, outreach, curriculum, and initiatives. 
  • Attend in-person meetings twice a month as a whole group or in committees.  
  • Work 3 hours per week (30 hours per semester) to collaborate with others on the DAC and promote CAIDS initiatives across the student body. Duties may include:
    • Create and share promotional materials and information about CAIDS to the Tulane student body through outreach activities such as tabling, speaking to student groups, creating social media campaigns, promoting surveys, hosting meet-and-greets and screenings, creating and sharing swag, handbooks, posters, and promotional videos. 
    • Create, revise, implement, and collect data from student surveys. Encourage other students to take these surveys. 
    • Collaborate as a cohort to develop and implement a comprehensive data collection and outreach strategy for all students on campus. 
    • Create, coordinate, and deliver outreach presentations to undergraduates in classrooms, workshops, organization meetings, and campus events.
    • Help plan and attend events during “Data Week” as part of DAC. 
    • Design and complete a special outreach project.
    • Take on independent projects and communications with assigned liaison groups. 
    • Act as a focus group to regarding new and emerging student programming and professional hires. 
  • Actively document findings, collect and visualize data, assess DAC goals, and reflect on outreach and collaboration practices in retrospectives and reflections. 
  • Assist with set-up and attend CAIDS events as schedule allows. 
  • Other duties, as discussed with the DAC mentor.

 

Qualifications
We encourage students from all backgrounds and schools to apply, including international students. We encourage students with emerging interest in data topics to apply, as well as those who have successfully completed DATA-1010, or other data-focused courses, or have worked on data projects in the past. 

 

We do not expect CAIDS Ambassadors to be data experts. Instead, we are looking for students interested in thinking about how CAIDS can better serve the Tulane student body through equitable data programming. 

 

Applicants must:

  • Cultivate an accessible and kind community around data literacy for all Tulane community members. 
  • Demonstrate experience and interest in increasing access to or availability of programming or services, especially at is relates broadly to data science, and especially for group(s) that may face issues in access.
  • Collaborate on a team and actively ideate in meetings and asynchronous sessions and also complete work independently in an effective and consistent manner. 
  • Actively communicate with supervisor by scheduling a regularly occurring meeting each week, showing up on time to meetings, reporting on their work completed or reporting issues and impediments as they arise, and practice improving their interpersonal, organizational, and analytical skills.