[Statlist] Poste: statisticien(ne) avec bonnes connaissances de R

[Matthieu Stigler]

Bonjour

Nous sommes à la recherche d'une/un statisticien(ne) avec de bonnes 
connaissances de R . Veuillez trouver plus bas l'annonce originale.

Merci

Matthieu Stigler


 > Hi
 >
 > Our organisation, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United 
Nations
 > (FAO) has launched a small pilot project to encourage the use of R within
 > FAO. In this regard, we are looking for a motivated person with 
strong skills
 > in R, able to teach R to beginners, and to develop specific packages on
 > request.
 >
 > More specifically, the candidate will be given the challenge to build 
staff's
 > capacities in R. This will involve setting-up a series of introductory
 > training sessions, organising a series of seminars inviting external 
speakers
 > and offering on-demand training on specific packages/topics. Besides 
capacity
 > building, the candidate will also be asked to develop/improve packages on
 > demand, most likely on data exchange (xml-sdmx and REST APIs).
 >
 > FAO is an international non-profit organization based in Rome, Italy,
 > focusing on areas such as food security, climate change and agricultural
 > development. The candidate will work in the Economic and Social: 
Statistics
 > division (ESS) and will have the opportunity to interact with many
 > statisticians at FAO who work on very diverse fields such as 
epidemiology,
 > agronomy, household survey analysis, econometric time-series or 
geo-spatial
 > analysis.
 >
 > For more informations or to apply, please write to 
Matthieu.Stigler at fao.org.
 > If you are interested, please send your CV and, instead of a cover 
letter,
 > answer briefly the questions at bottom of e-mail. Kindly also give an
 > estimate of your salary expectation (upon which contract duration will
 > depend, probably 3 to 6 months due to limited budget of pilot project).
 > Contract start is as early as possible, hopefully September.
 >
 > Best regards
 >
 > Matthieu Stigler
 >
 > Questions to answer if interested:
 > -What experience do you possess with R (please mention packages 
developed if
 > any)?,
 > -Do you possess any experience in teaching?
 > -Are you familiar with one of XML, ggplot2, rehsape? Parallel 
computing? Do
 > you use LaTeX (beamer) and Sweave?
 > -Would you write a package in S3 or S4? Explain your choice.
 > -If you were given free time, what would you develop in R?