Technical Content Specialist#
A Technical Content Specialist at 2i2c focuses on creating and curating documentation that supports interactive computing and cloud based open science. It intersects job titles such as “technical writer” and “content creator” while emphasizing previous experience working with open source science and related tools and a desire to share that knowledge.
Key responsibilities#
Work as part of the 2i2c Partnerships Team towards Community Success
Create documentation (tutorials, how-tos, explainers, and reference materials) that are shared across our communities using cloud-based interactive computing
Curate documentation resources from open source and open science projects
Develop training materials for communities such as
Version control for collaborative cloud-based workflows
Environment management for hub administrators
Best practices for analysis-ready cloud optimized data
Assist the 2i2c Engineering Team by editing technical documentation and documenting solutions from our support desk
Author content for 2i2c for use in marketing, blog posts, and website copy
Necessary qualities#
Demonstrated excellence in communicating complex technical information to learners with a different levels of background and experience
Demonstrated experience in using open-science tools (e.g. Python or R) in a scientific or scholarly domain
Willingness to continually learn and share emerging technologies and techniques in the interactive computing and open science ecosystems
Useful qualities#
Experience with open source workflows, research and educational contexts, and an understanding of the value that cloud-based infrastructure provides
Experience with the Jupyter ecosystem and other tools for interactive computing
Experience working with distributed service teams that use asynchronous methods of communication
Experience collaborating and coordinating work via online platforms and distributed revision control
Ability to communicate in Spanish, Portuguese, or French