University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Data Specialist
🇺🇸 Hybrid - NC
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Data Science
🗓️ August 12th, 2025
Python
Edtech.com's Summary
UNC-Chapel Hill is hiring a Data Specialist to provide artificial intelligence (AI) and data support for the Mellon Foundation-funded On the Books: AI-Assisted Archives project. The specialist will develop coding and AI applications to create textual corpora, metadata, and use machine learning for identifying Jim Crow and Juan Crow laws while collaborating with scholars and special collections teams to ensure proper contextual application.
Highlights
- Provide AI and data support for archival research, including text corpora creation and handwritten-character recognition.
- Use coding and machine learning tools to analyze Jim Crow and Juan Crow era legal documents.
- Collaborate with scholars and special collections staff to apply AI work in legal and historical contexts.
- Work as a member of the Digital Research Services department and the On the Books project team.
- Required proficiency in Python and/or R for handling unstructured data and text analysis.
- Advanced data skills including data cleaning, normalization, regular expressions, and data reshaping.
- Preferred experience with AI tools, prompt engineering, APIs, version control, and predictive model development.
- Minimum education includes a bachelor's degree with 0-2 years experience or a master’s degree in related fields like Information Science, Data Science, or Computer Science.
- Commitment to teamwork, communication skills, and mentorship within a growth mindset environment.
- Full-time permanent position with potential eligibility for hybrid work arrangement.
