Statistical Associate New Grad

University of Virginia; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 27,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

The University of Virginia Library StatLab seeks a Graduate Student Associate for the spring 2027 semester. The role collaborates with full‑time statisticians to provide statistical consulting, write instructional articles, and contribute to data analysis projects across disciplines.

Responsibilities include helping design studies, performing analyses, interpreting results, data wrangling, and contributing to open‑source materials.

Qualifications

• Graduate student standing.
• At least a year of statistical coursework and willingness to learn more methods.
• Proficiency in R and willingness to learn Stata, SPSS, or Python.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide statistical consultations to UVA students and faculty across disciplines.
• Write online instructional articles and contribute to data analysis projects.
• Collaborate with Library statisticians on internal and external projects.

Skills

Statistical consulting

Research design

Data wrangling

R programming

Python (basic)

Oral and written communication

Education

Graduate student standing

Statistics coursework (1+ year)

Tools

R

Stata

SPSS

Python

Job description

The UVA Library StatLab is seeking a Graduate Student Associate for the spring 2027 academic semester and beyond.

The StatLab Associate will work with the Library’s full-time statisticians to provide statistical consulting and support to UVA students and faculty across disciplines, write online instructional articles, and contribute to data analysis projects (internal to the Library or in collaboration with other organizations) as they arise.

Consultations

• Help students and faculty develop research designs, identify appropriate statistical analyses, interpret results, carry out data wrangling, and implement models in supported software environments.

Instructional articles

• Contribute to StatLab articles, a collection of highly-viewed articles and tutorials explaining common statistical methods, statistical programming, data visualization, and more.

Library projects

• The Library has increasing needs for data science expertise to analyze its own data, prepare new open-source materials, and collaborate on projects with other groups. StatLab contributes to these projects, and Associates will be brought in as new projects develop.

Associates will be paid hourly at $24/hour for up to 10 hours a week for 15 weeks each semester, with the possibility of project-based work over the summer.

Required Qualifications

• Graduate student standing
• At least a year of statistical coursework, and a willingness to learn more statistical methods
• Proficiency in R and a willingness to learn other programs and languages such as Stata, SPSS, or Python
• Strong oral and written communication skills

For questions about this position, please contact Clay Ford: [e-mail]

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