[sigCR] Illinois iSchool Faculty Opportunities

[Kathryn La Barre]

The School of Information Sciences (iSchool) seeks to hire up to four
outstanding full-time faculty members (rank open) to join our dynamic and
collegial School. Preference will be given to the following
specializations, but strong candidates in any area are encouraged to apply.

.       Information retrieval & data analytics--natural language
processing, machine learning, and data visualization in application domains
such as health, science, and business
.       Information, technology & society--legal and regulatory
environment; political economy of information; responsible and ethical uses
of information in a global context; technology and civic contexts
.       Digital youth--understanding, supporting and enhancing the
interactions of youth with digital information and technology
.       Knowledge organization--information architecture, metadata
standards, linked data, cataloging and classification, taxonomy, ontology,
indexing, digital asset management, records management
.       Cultural heritage informatics--contemporary archival research and
practice including digital archives; community archives and archiving;
convergence of libraries, archives and museums; digital preservation
.       User experience/Human-computer interaction--social computing,
crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, social media, computer-supported
cooperative work, interaction design, and multi-disciplinary study of the
design, use and effects of ICTs

The iSchool is an established national leader in both groundbreaking
information science research and the preparation of leading information
professionals. Innovative research in a wide variety of areas is carried
out by faculty and doctoral students and supported by three iSchool
centers: the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship,
the Center for Digital Inclusion, and the Center for Children's Books. Our
faculty have leadership roles in national initiatives and professional
societies and our close relationships with scientific and cultural
institutions ensure that our research engages critical societal challenges.

The iSchool faculty is highly interdisciplinary, with backgrounds in
information science, computer science, library science, informatics,
engineering science, physics, astrophysics, law, psychology, English,
medieval studies, philosophy, sociology, and statistics and they hold
additional appointments in many other university departments, as well as
world-renowned research institutes such as the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Beckman Institute for Advanced
Science and Technology.


Successful candidates must be comfortable working in an interdisciplinary
academic unit and addressing audiences in professional master's degree
programs, as well as teaching students from undergraduate to Ph.D. levels
in an iSchool. The iSchool participates in a campus-wide undergraduate
minor and Ph.D. in Informatics, and it offers a Master of Science in
Library and Information Science, a Master of Science in Information
Management, a Master of Science in Bioinformatics, a Certificate of
Advanced Study (CAS), and a CAS in Digital Libraries, a Ph.D., and a K-12
Library Information Specialist Licensure Program. The School's
award-winning online option for the Master's and CAS degrees gives students
access to a high-quality professional education.


Appointments made under this announcement will be effective August 16, 2018.
Rank is open, and salary is commensurate with experience. A Ph.D. degree or
equivalent is required though we will consider candidates who are close to
completion of the doctoral degree. Information about iSchool programs and
faculty can be found at: http://ischool.illinois.edu/.

To ensure full consideration, please complete your candidate profile at
https://jobs.illinois.edu/ and upload your letter of application, complete
CV/resume, statement on teaching and research, and a list of three
professional references including contact information by November 5, 2017.
Review of applications will continue until the position is filled.
Applicants may be interviewed before the closing date, but no hiring
decisions will be made until after the search has closed. We especially
welcome applications from members of under-represented groups working in
these or other areas of the information sciences.  For further information
regarding application procedures, you may contact Candy Edwards (
cledward at illinois.edu, 217-244-3809).

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job
candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer.


The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action
employer. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are
encouraged to apply. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.
To learn more about the University's commitment to diversity, please visit
http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu

-- 
Kathryn La Barre