# Part-time coding positions in EOAS

The Department of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences is engaged in a 3-year, Large TLEF-funded project to incorporate open source computational tools and transform teaching practices to support hands-on interdisciplinary learning in data-driven scientific exploration.
As part of that initiative, we have three openings for part-time programmers interested in developing python libraries and Jupyter notebooks for several undergraduate courses.

## Salary and duration

All three positions are for 10 hours/week at $30 hour. Start and end dates are flexible, between March 1 - August 15, 2021.

## Duties and responsibilities

### Position 1: nbgrader development

Nbgrader (https://github.com/jupyter/nbgrader) is a tool for automated marking of Jupyter notebooks exercises. The UBC data science program has implemented a several improvements to the upstream nbgrader repository.(Polish and test several changes that have been implemented in the UBC data science fork of