Work with the Digital Skills Lab

Part-time Opportunity: Digital Skills Trainer - Data Science

 

  •  £27.73 - £33.14 / hour (depending on experience)
  • This is a fixed term contract until 31 July 2025 (possible extension to 31 July 2026)

  • Candidates must be residing in the UK for this role
  • The Digital Skills Lab is seeking an experienced trainer to deliver effective and engaging technical training to LSE students and staff. Workshops are currently delivered in person and training takes place on campus. Each workshop will last between 1 to 3 hours and will have up to 16 participants. Trainers will be expected to work between 5 to 10 hours per week.  
  • Successful candidates will have experience in delivering training in Python, R, SPSS, Stata, Tableau or NVivo and be able to re-purpose existing learning content to deliver short, high-quality training courses. Experience of any of the following technologies listed is also desirable:  

  • Git/GitHub, LaTeX,
  • Web scraping
  • LaTex
  • MatLab 
  • Machine Learning techniques 
  • Database design and SQL
  • Text Analysis
  • Markdown , particularly R Markdown
  • To apply, please email your CV and a short statement outlining how your skills and experience meet the job description and requirements outlined in the person specification  to digital.skills.lab@lse.ac.uk no later than 11.59 pm GMT, Sunday 23 February 2025.

Please be sure to indicate which additional software/tools you would be willing to teach.  

 We are seeking Six trainers. We will review applications and interviews until the positions have been filled.