University of Toronto Mississauga

Deadline: October 1, 2019

Candidates must have a PhD in a related discipline with a curricular emphasis in marketing, management, business administration, communications/media, or information, or a related discipline by the time of appointment (or shortly thereafter). Candidates must have a demonstrated record of excellence in research and teaching. They must demonstrate an active and excellent research program emphasizing the role of technology in marketing; an emerging reputation in a marketing-related field with a demonstrated ability to attract research funding; and a good publication record in top-ranked and field relevant scholarly journals; as well as through strong endorsements from referees of high standing. Excellence in teaching can be demonstrated by the teaching dossier outlining experience and accomplishments, a statement of teaching philosophy, sample syllabi, and teaching evaluations, as well as strong letters of reference is also required. The successful candidate will have a graduate appointment in one of the University of Toronto's tri-campus graduate departments.

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University of Michigan School of Information

Deadline: August 11, 2019

The University of Michigan School of Information seeks qualified individuals as Lecturer III to provide instruction in Python programming and data science skills and techniques to students in our new Master of Applied Data Science degree as well as in our other academic programs. We expect the applicant to be able to support courses such as data manipulation, exploratory data analysis, data mining, and natural language processing. We seek candidates who are passionate about teaching and using computation and data science to build a better world. Students in the online degree program take four-week classes on the Coursera platform. Under direction of the instructor of record the successful candidate will serve as front line instructional and student support, and participate in the continuous process of program improvement. This person may be assigned course development duties. Given the online degree program structure, there will be a variety of classes that change from month to month. Course assignments are made in advance giving teaching faculty ample time to prepare. However, these responsibilities will be very fast paced and sometimes evolving quickly. Thus, it will be critical to have strong organizational skills and the willingness and ability to work in a dynamic environment.

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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Library and Information Science

Deadline: August 1, 2019

The Junior Professorship will research the impact of information infrastructures and information systems on the digital transformation. Library and Information Science researches these topics both from a social science oriented perspective (community-based and ethical issues, use of information technology) as well as information technology oriented perspective (data and information analytical research on the digital transformation, design and development of information systems and information infrastructures).

Memory institutions (above all libraries) and public information infrastructures constitute a major research and teaching area at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science, as they are responsible for the organization, management and preservation of information flows in a society. We welcome qualified applications from scholars whose research addresses important and innovative areas of research especially in the fields of Library and Information Science and related disciplines. Focused research areas should be one or more of the following: Information / Data / Digital Literacy; Information Didactics; Computational Thinking; Information Governance; Information Ethics; Algorithmic Transparency, Computational Fairness, Bias and similar approaches; Socio-technical Systems / Social Informatics.

The professorship will strengthen the existing research and teaching areas of Information Behavior, Information Management, Information Retrieval and Information Processing and Analytics at the school.

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University of South Florida School of Information
Deadline: April 30, 2019

The School of Information at the University of South Florida seeks to fill a 9 month, full-time Instructor position with opportunities to move up in the instructor career path. The appointment is nine-month with summer teaching opportunities possible.

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University of California, Berkeley, School of Information
Deadline: July 17, 2019

The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a pool of part-time, non-tenure track lecturers to teach courses in the Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program. Screening of applicants is ongoing and will continue as needed.

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National Taiwan University, Dept. of Library and Information Science
Deadline: Aug. 31, 2019

The Department of Library and Information Science at National Taiwan University is seeking to employ one new full-time faculty member.

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Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Deadline: May 31, 2019

The Wolbach Library at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) is seeking a Metadata Architecture Fellow. The successful applicant will work with CfA library staff and our project partners at the Libre Space Foundation to conduct research that will inform the design of a metadata schema to link together data, software, and hardware from small satellite missions.

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University of Sheffield iSchool
Deadline: May 20, 2019

The Faculty of Social Science, Information School, University of Sheffield seeks applications from inspirational leaders who can play a key role in advancing the School’s competitive position in research, teaching excellence, and innovation. Research expertise in the following areas would be of particular, although not exclusive, interest: digital innovation and its impact on organisations and society; digital inequalities and the digital society; information behaviour in different organisational and societal contexts, e.g., business, education, healthcare; information, knowledge and innovation management; information systems; delivery of information and digital services; digital scholarship and ‘research on research’; computational social science.

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University of Strathclyde iSchool
Deadline: May 19, 2019

The Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) at the University of Strathclyde seeks to appoint a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Asst Professor/Associate Professor) in Information Science. The successful applicant will have primary research interests and expertise in information and library studies. Search on job #206557 for more information.

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University at Buffalo iSchool
Deadline: May 25, 2019

The University at Buffalo seeks an adjunct instructor to teach a senior-level undergraduate course in Applied Information Management. Development and teaching of the course in spring 2020 (January 27, 2020 through May 8, 2020).

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