Job Description

Job Summary

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods in hiring temporary teaching assistants to support instructors for courses in its 2025 General Sessions. The General Sessions are a comprehensive methods training program with a board curriculums ranging from introductory to advances courses in a variety of statistical and other quantitative methods and social research techniques.  All 2025 General Session courses will be offered in a dual-mode/hybrid format, with both in-person and online participants. Each of the two General Sessions are attended by a diverse, multidisciplinary, and international body of participants including hundreds of students, faculty, and practitioners. More Information abou the General Sessions is available here: https://myumi.ch/EkJbp

As a perk of the job, teaching assistants will also be able to enroll in up to three General Session methods Courses, intended for asynchronous review after the Session and their job responsibilities have ended.

Course Description

Teaching assistants will be assigned to assist with one methods Course and/or one math or computing Lecture per General Session. A list of eligible Courses and Lectures, dates and class descriptions are available here: https://myumi.ch/p7Gpr

Teaching assistants will be expected to work 40 hours per week of their class's instruction. All teaching assistants will be expected to work in-person in Ann Arbor, Michigan and will need to have their own laptop computer.

Responsibilities*

Responsibilities will include some one or more of the following:

Required Qualifications*

Desired Qualifications*

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Additional Information

Required Application Materials:

Applicants should combine all of the following application materials into a single PDF document:

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, part of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the diverse people of Michigan, to maintain the excellence of the university, and to ground our research in varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.

Background Screening

The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background checks.  Background checks are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period had ended.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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