Student Web Developer – MACRO Lab, Department of Communication, STDT 4
The MACRO Lab at UCSD Communication is seeking an undergraduate, graduate, or recently graduated student with skills in web development and data visualization. You would be joining a team that includes two professors, a student designer, and multiple student research assistants. Your two main tasks would be to continue development of our website (which is transitioning to Wordpress as a backend) and interactive data visualizations using Tableau and PowerBI. You will be in contact with the designer regularly, and meet bi-monthly with the MACRO LAB team for progress updates.
MACRO Lab Project Description:
The Media And Consolidation Research Organization (MACRO) Lab is a scholarly community, research lab, and online resource about media ownership for instructors, students, journalists, regulators, and citizens. Increasingly, media production is consolidated, financialized, and homogenized. Two to four corporations dominate in each sector, limiting the diversity and democratic potential of our cultural production in news, film, television, music, and publishing. However, there is no easy-to-use, up-to-date, public-facing resource that explains this state of affairs. Privileging the analysis of diversity, history, power, and complexity, the MACRO Lab will provide accessible data and critical materials about the democratic dangers of media consolidation for news reporting, teaching purposes, and the promotion of government regulation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Continue development and maintenance of the MACRO Lab website, including its transition to a WordPress backend.
- Create and manage interactive data visualizations using Tableau and Power BI.
- Collaborate regularly with the student designer to ensure visual and functional consistency.
- Participate in bi-monthly team meetings with the MACRO Lab team to provide progress updates.
- Assist with troubleshooting website or data visualization issues as needed.
Qualifications:
- Required: Experience with web design and data visualization.
- Preferred: Experience with WordPress, HTML/CSS, Tableau, and Power BI.
- Additional relevant experience in data science, web scraping, graphic design, or website builder tools similar to WordPress is a plus.
Competencies:
- Digital information fluency: Demonstrates technological literacy and skills, and ethically and effectively uses technology to communicate, problem-solve, and complete tasks.
- Civic engagement & social responsibility: Participates in service/ volunteer activities characterized by reciprocity, engages in critical reflection, and appropriately challenges unfair and unjust behavior to make a positive difference in the community.
- Critical thinking & problem solving: Identifies important problems and questions and gathers, analyzes, evaluates information from a variety of sources before forming a strategy, decision, or opinion.
Hours: 5-15 hours/week, flexible
Pay: $18.25-$25.55/hourly, depending on experience
Notices:
- Background check required.
- If you have relatives employed at UCSD, you must include the name, relationship and department where employed in your resume or cover letter. This information is used only for the purpose of complying with the University’s Near Relative policy.
- The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation. Please update to include the full statement as written above.
- As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.