Adjunct Associate Faculty, SQL and Relational Databases (On-Campus)

Company Description

Columbia University has been a leader in higher education in the nation and around the world for more than 250 years. At the core of our wide range of academic inquiry is the commitment to attract and engage the best minds in pursuit of greater human understanding, pioneering new discoveries, and service to society.

The School of Professional Studies at Columbia University offers innovative and rigorous programs that integrate knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, combine theory with practice, leverage the expertise of our students and faculty, and connect global constituencies. Through fourteen professional master's degrees, courses for advancement and graduate school preparation, certificate programs, summer courses, high school programs, and a program for learning English as a second language, the School of Professional Studies transforms knowledge and understanding in service of the greater good.

Job Description

Seeking analytics professionals to serve as a part-time Associate for a graduate level course on SQL (structured query language). An Associate is a faculty line junior to a Lecturer, that provides subject matter expertise and supports the instructional process for a couse section. Serving as an Associate is an outstanding way to gain exposure to graduate level teaching at Columbia University.

Responsibilities

• Attend all class sessions, assist with instruction, lead breakout sessions, facilitate discussions.
• Lead class lectures, instructional activities, and classroom discussion. Attend all class sessions.
• Evaluate, grade student work and assessments as requested by the course Lecturer.
• Monitor and address student concerns and inquiries.

Qualifications

Columbia University SPS operates under a scholar-practitioner faculty model, which enables students to learn from faculty that have outstanding academic training as well as a record of accomplishment as practitioners in an applied industry setting. 

Requirements

• Graduate degree in an area related to applied analytics, data science or another discipline which provided rigorous training in quantitative analytics.
• Proficient in SQL.
• Profocient with either R programming or Python.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Skilled with data visualization techniques and tools.
• Proficient in NoSQL (MongoDB), Apache Spark SQL.
• Experience with data warehousing.
• University teaching experience.

Additional Information

Salary: $3,343.74 per semester-length course

• Please submit a resume inclusive of university teaching experience.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.