ICPSR Teaching Assistant; TEMP

Applicants MUST combine all required application materials into a single PDF document that they submit/upload in the Resume section of the application. Documents not submitted in the Resume section will not be reviewed. If your PDF file is larger than can be uploaded, please compress it and/or additionally email it to icpsr-sumprog.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods is hiring temporary teaching assistants to support instructors for courses in its 2026 General Sessions. The General Sessions are a comprehensive methods training program with a broad curriculum ranging from introductory to advanced courses in a variety of statistical and other quantitative methods and social research techniques.

All 2026 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 about the General Sessions is available here: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Jbp

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 General Session and their job responsibilities have ended.

We are currently unable to consider candidates who are not authorized to work in the United States. Additionally, we are not offering visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have appropriate work authorization at the time of application.

Teaching assistants will be expected to work 40 hours per week while their class is in session. All teaching assistants will be expected to work in-person in Ann Arbor, Michigan and will need to have their own laptop computer. No remote positions are available.

Responsibilities will include one or more of the following:

• Assist course instructors with preparation and presentation of class materials and lectures
• Meet with course instructors
• Attend daily lectures and answer participant questions
• Hold office hours for participants
• Hold lab sessions and supplemental learning sessions
• Evaluate work and grade assignments
• Provide additional teaching support

• Current enrollment in a Ph.D. program, or equivalent academic status or background
• Master's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience with quantitative research skills in the social sciences or closely related field
• Experience with statistical computing software
• Excellent communications skills, both oral and written, in the English language
• Exceptional interpersonal skills
• Past experience, within the last 2 years, as a teaching assistant in a statistics or relevant methodology course at the college level, or equivalent experience
• Knowledge and command of specific topics that would be required for the relevant courses, such as probability, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, tests of significance and inference; contingency tables, Chi-square, and ANOVA; multiple regression and extensions, including interactions, time-series or panel-data analysis; maximum likelihood; causal inference;
  Nash, subgame-perfect, and perfect-Bayesian equilibrium; computational modeling.

• Past teaching experience with a graduate-level statistics/methodology course
• Experience teaching statistics/methodology in a multicultural environment
• Past successful experience with the ICPSR Summer Program
• Knowledge and experience with R, Zoom, and other technology used in modern methods instruction

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 .

Applicants MUST combine all required application materials into a single PDF document that they submit/upload in the Resume section of the application. Documents not submitted in the…