CESS Vacancies
CESS Nuffield, Oxford
The Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences in Oxford is looking for Casual Research Assistants to join their team. The successful candidate will be working 5-10 hours per week, earning an hourly salary of £14.
As a part-time Research Assistant you will be required to, organise, maintain and update our datasets. Your responsibilities will be:
- Processing, consolidating, and transforming data sets within and between datasets.
- Carrying out statistical analyses using standard methods and more advanced techniques.
- Ensuring that all tasks relating to data collection and storage are carried out according to the relevant guidelines and regulations for each funder and in line with CESS policies.
The skills required for this job are:
- Being able to interpret and analyse data.
- Good analytical skills.
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Knowledge of Stata, R, and z-tree.
- IT literate with knowledge of Office Software (Word and Excel).
If you are interested in this job, please send us your CV to vacancies@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.
We are looking for a part-time Programming Assistant to join our team at the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS). The assistant will be working on programming various online experiments under the supervision of postdoctoral officers at CESS. The work will be compensated based on the hours work at the rate of £20-£35/hour. Our web-development projects include:
- Programming in Otree (http://www.otree.org), based on proficiency in Python and preferably Django;
- Programming in Javascript, Node.js and HTML.
As a part-time programmer you will be required to contribute to developing programs for laboratory and online experiments. You will have to report to the CESS Postdocs and CESS Director.
A successful candidate will possess the following skills and experience:
- Excellent knowledge of Python, Django, HTML, php and Javascript;
- Must apply good coding practice, e.g. commenting;
- Ideally, experience using github;
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills;
- Excellent organisational skills and timekeeping;
- Ability to communicate successfully and work effectively with other team members.
If you are interested in this position, please send us a covering letter and your CV to vacancies@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.
The CV must include a URL linked to relevant samples of work.
We are looking for one PHP Developer to join our team at the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS). The assistant(s) will be working on develop the back and front end of different CESS websites. The work will be compensated based on the hours work at the rate of £20-£35/hour. Our web-development projects include:
- Programming in PHP
- Programming in Ruby
A successful candidate will possess at the following skills and experience:
- Strong PHP and JavaScript programming experience.
- Strong database development experience.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Excellent organisational skills and timekeeping.
- Ability to communicate successfully and work effectively with other team members.
Other desirable qualities include:
- Experience with python and Django.
- Experience learning to work with new frameworks and APIs.
If you are interested in this position, please send us a covering letter and your CV to vacancies@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.
The CV should include a URL linked to relevant samples of work.
We are looking for one JavaScript programmer to join our team at the Nuffield Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS). The assistant(s) will be working on develop the back and front end of different CESS websites. The work will be compensated based on the hours work at the rate of £30-£35/hour. Our web-development projects require programming in JavaScript.
A successful candidate will possess at the following skills and experience:
- Strong JavaScript programming experience.
- Strong database development experience.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Excellent organisational skills and timekeeping.
- Ability to communicate successfully and work effectively with other team members.
Other desirable qualities include:
- Experience with python and Django.
- Experience learning to work with new frameworks and APIs.
- Experience programming in PHP.
- Experience programmin in Ruby.
If you are interested in this position, please send us a covering letter and your CV to vacancies@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.
The CV should include a URL linked to relevant samples of work.
Nuffield College exists to promote excellence in education and research, and is an equal opportunities employer committed to equality and valuing diversity. Applications are particularly welcome from women, from disabled people, and from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in posts in the College.
CESS India, Pune
Are you an early-stage PhD student focusing on social science experiments? If so, you may be able to take advantage of this unique opportunity to spend two months at CESS India designing and executing a lab or lab-in-the-field experiment (with villagers, factory workers, indigenous communities, etc.). We’re looking for exceptional candidates from any social science discipline and related, applied fields. This year, we are particularly interested in hearing proposals related to gender and competition, inter-ethnic cooperation, social norms, trust, behavior change, and regulation.
The two-month fellowship includes:
- Return fights to India
- Funds for subject payments
- Accommodation
Applications must be received by 30 September for fellowships taking place in December 2017 to February 2018. Rolling for later visits. To apply, send your CV and an early-stage design (including a brief literature review) to cess@flame.edu.in.
