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Hiring Unit:

DesautelsCourse Title:

Text AnalyticsCourse Code:

INSY 669Estimated Number of Positions:

1Total Hours of Work per Term:

107Hiring Unit:

Desautels Faculty of Management

Course Title and Course Number:

Digital Retailing Models/Text Analytics/Social Media Analytics

Estimated Number of Positions:

1

Total Hours of Work per Term:

109

Position Summary:

The Teaching Assistant will support the delivery of INSY 669/670 (Text Analytics) and RETL 613, with responsibilities focused on both technical and instructional support. Duties will include assisting students with Python programming, data preparation, text analytics, natural language processing, and the application of analytical methods to business and retail problems.

Specific responsibilities include

- Holding office hours and responding to student questions related to course concepts, assignments, and technical implementation.
- Supporting students with Python coding, debugging, data collection and preparation, and the implementation of text analytics and NLP methods covered in the courses.
- Assisting with course exercises and applications involving text preprocessing, sentiment analysis, classification, similarity and recommendation methods, clustering/topic modeling, language models, and related analytical techniques.
- Providing technical support for course assignments and projects, including troubleshooting packages, notebooks, datasets, and computing environments.
- Assisting the instructor with grading assignments, projects, and other course deliverables using established grading rubrics and providing constructive feedback to students.
- Reviewing assignment instructions, notebooks, datasets,



and other course materials to identify technical issues or ambiguities before their release to students.
- Supporting in-class exercises, demonstrations, and hands-on activities as needed.
- Assisting student teams with the analytical and technical aspects of course projects while ensuring that support is consistent across teams and does not substitute for students' own work.
- Helping maintain course materials and communications on myCourses and coordinating with the instructor regarding recurring student questions or areas requiring additional clarification.

Qualifications: The TA is expected to have robust Python skills and familiarity with data analytics and machine learning. Prior experience with text analytics, NLP, language models, or related methods is particularly desirable. Must be McGill graduate student with appropriate course background.

Before applying, please note that to work at McGill University, you must be both authorized to work in Canada and willing to work in the province of Quebec at the campus where the position is based / located.

McGill University is an English-language university where most teaching and research activities are conducted in the English language, thereby requiring English communication both verbally and in writing.

Hourly Salary:

$38.46Position Start Date:

2026-08-30Position End Date:

2026-12-12Deadline to Apply:

2026-09-03McGill University hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community. We welcome applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated groups to self-identify.

Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, [email protected].

📌 Teaching Assistant - INSY 669/670/RETL 613 (Montreal)
🏢 McGill University
📍 Montreal