Job description
Location: Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ)
Description:
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to support research in academic and disciplinary writing.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the day-to-day tasks of a multidisciplinary research team that researches academic and disciplinary writing
- Collect and manage data including student writing, interviews, surveys, focus groups, and think-aloud protocols
- Design teaching materials to scaffold academic and disciplinary writing
- Conduct writing workshops with faculty and students
- Provide writing support for students
- Develop online modules to scaffold academic writing
- Analyze data including student writing
- Assist with preparing presentations for conferences
- Assist with preparing manuscripts for publication
Timeframe: 12-month contract beginning in January 2025 with possibility of renewal.
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar offers a competitive salary, travel, housing, and schooling allowances, as well as other benefits, including professional development opportunities.
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is a branch campus that operates along with several other American and European branch campuses under the umbrella of the Qatar Foundation’s Education City. CMU-Q’s student body comes from all over the world; in particular, many come from the Middle East, North Africa, and Central and South Asia.
CMU-Q’s focus is undergraduate education in Computer Science, Business Administration, Biological Sciences, and Information Systems.
Qualifications:
- PhD required in English, rhetoric, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, or related field
- Demonstrated excellence in teaching or course support.
- Previous experience teaching academic writing and developing materials to teach writing
- Previous experience conducting research in academic writing, disciplinary writing, discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, or corpus linguistics
- Computer skills to be able to develop online teaching modules (preferred but not required)
How to apply
Carnegie Mellon University does not discriminate and Carnegie Mellon University is required not to discriminate in admission, employment, or administration of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or handicap in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or other federal, state, or local laws or executive orders.
