Office of Sustainability Graduate Assistantship
The UIC Office of Sustainability seeks a Graduate Assistant for a 50% appointment to carry out the following tasks:
* Create and update tables with the appropriate data structure
* Import and export data from various formats i.e. Excel/text/CSV
into MS Access and MySQL
* Create forms, queries and macros to meet various reporting needs
in the DBMS
* Develop a web interface (using PHP) that can call the database to
view reports dynamically (behind UIC bluestem security system)
* The appointment will be for Fall 2010 Semester with the option to
extend further.
Qualifications
Required:
* Demonstrated facility designing, creating and maintaining MySQL
and MS Access databases.
* Experience working with PHP to design dynamic websites
Desirable:
* Experience with Javascript, CSS, Web 2.0 technologies
* Understanding of current Information Visualization best practices
* Demonstrated interest in sustainability-related issues
About us:
The Office of Sustainability helps coordinate initiatives on campus that bring UIC towards greater social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Our current initiatives are focused on improvements to campus-wide recycling, active transportation options, and energy efficiency; all are strategies in UIC's first Climate Action Plan.
Through outreach, education, and partnerships, we are able to collect information, act as a resource to the UIC community, and help facilitate improvements to the campus that reduce our university's impacts on the environment (while also improving the educational atmosphere and our fiscal bottom line).
Please email .pdf, .doc or .docx versions of your resume and a cover letter, conveying how your specific skills meet the job description above, to dfredm2@uic.edu with the subject "Office of Sustainability GA Application" by August 9, 2010.
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In the heart of Chicago, we offer degrees in fields of study that can change your life and change the world. CUPPA students and alumni are uniquely skilled to build and transform sustainable urban neighborhoods and communities and to address the challenges presented in the 21st century. Find our more about our Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate degrees at cuppa.uic.edu.
Follow our job postings below and our national job tweets at @CUPPACareers. For student internships and student opportunities, head to the CUPPA Student Opportunities Blog
Have a job or internship to post? Send an email with the title, location, job description, and contact information to cuppa@uic.edu