Programmer, The department of peace and conflict research

Published: 2022-09-13

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The department and the projects Demscore (project leader Magnus Öberg) and Societies at Risk, (project leader Håvard Hegre), now seek to hire a full-time permanent programmer, starting in October 2022.

Demscore (www.demscore.se ), is a collaboration between some of Sweden’s largest universities with the collective goal of providing free and open access to high quality data. The selected programmer will work with Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) and Violence Early-Warning System (ViEWS),which are partners of Demscore (www.demscore.se/partners/ucdpviews/ )

The research program Societies at risk: The Impact of armed conflict on human development started up in January 2022 with funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. It will run through 2027 (www.pcr.uu.se/research/sar/ ). This multi-disciplinary program, led by Professor Håvard Hegre, takes a risk-analysis perspective, studying the expected impact of armed conflict as a function of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. The goal is to assess the effects of conflict at both the macro and micro level on economies, health, water security, political institutions, human rights, forced migration, socio-psychological wellbeing, and gender equality. Conflict hazard will be modeled through an early-warning system that expands the well-established ViEWS system (www.pcr.uu.se/research/views ) to forecast political violence and its impacts on a range of societal outcomes.

Duties
The programmer will be responsible for continuously developing and maintaining the ViEWS database and the ViEWS forecasting pipeline, which were developed during the ERC project ViEWS – a political Violence Early-Warning System (www.views.pcr.uu.se ). The programmer is also expected to document the processes on GitHub. The project has several researchers and research assistants that write code in Python and R, and a major task will thus be to help organize and support these development efforts. The programmer will also be responsible for meeting various programming and data presentation needs of the projects, following up with external consultants, and providing technical supervision to the research group, conducting data analysis, interacting with IT-service suppliers, ensuring safe handling of research data and infrastructure in coordination with the project leader, and for defining current and future infrastructure needs in the two projects.

Requirements

• Master’s degree
• At least three years of dedicated experience as a programmer is required, including a minimum two years of related development experience at a research institution.
• At least three years of programming experience in Python and SQL
• Extensive knowledge of R and PostgreSQL
• Experience developing statistical analysis or machine learning workflows in Python, R or similar
• Extensive knowledge of with Linux on the command line
• Knowledge of statistical modelling

Desirable/additional qualifications

• Ph.D. in relevant field and researcher experience
• Experience with statistical modeling of spatio-temporal relations
• Experience with the Pandas and scikit-learn libraries in Python
• Familiarity with MacOS
• Familiarity with LaTeX
• Experience using high performance computing (HPC) resources
• Experience with developing research infrastructures
• Experience with presentation of research results
• Knowledge of peace and conflict research or other social sciences

Attention to detail and exactness, analytical and problem-solving skills, and good interpersonal abilities are of high importance. The programmer will interact to a high extent with the rest of the project staff and will be responsible for necessary skill development among project members. Demonstrated pedagogical skills are therefore of high importance.

About the employment
The employment is a permanent position (probationary period may be applied).Scope of employment: 100 %. Starting date; 1 October, or as agreed. Placement: Uppsala.

For further information about the position, please contact: Håvard Hegre, [email protected] .

Please submit your application by 28 September, UFV-PA 2022/3110.

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Placement: Department of Peace and Conflict Research

Type of employment: Full time , Permanent position

Pay: Individual salary

Number of positions: 1

Working hours: 100%

Town: Uppsala

County: Uppsala län

Country: Sweden

Union representative: Seko Universitetsklubben [email protected]
ST/TCO [email protected]
Saco-rådet [email protected]

Number of reference: UFV-PA 2022/3110

Last application date: 2022-09-28

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