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Certified Cyberinfrastructure Facilitator Training and Development

The Certified Cyberinfrastructure Facilitator Training and Development (CCIFTD) program is a first-of-its-kind, non matriculated certification of professional development for CI Facilitators. CCIFTD’s role is to attest to proficiency in core skills needed for facilitating computing/data-intensive research, across all Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The emphasis is on crucial professional/interpersonal skills, and complementary CI technical topics. CCIFTD focuses on establishing both (a) the set of skills and (b) a means for determining whether a CI Facilitator has these skills.

Motivation: The CI workforce suffers from a critical deficit of CI Facilitators, the CI professionals who work directly with researchers to advance computing/data-intensive aspects of their research. a vital role at many research institutions. Currently, there is a clear sense of the nature and value of the CI Facilitator role, but no well-defined set of skills agreed upon by the CI Facilitator community at large.

Badges (microcredential): training module, exam, scoring rubric

Topic areas: Interpersonal Skills, Technical Skills, CI Landscape, Understanding Researchers’ Circumstances,                                            Research Data Lifecycle Management

Time cost per badge: training module 60-90 minutes, exam 20-40 minutes

Certification (macrocredential) comes from specific collections of badges. There are currently 15 badges: 7 required, 8 elective, in all topic areas


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ADSA


Website

https://academicdatascience.org

Type

Consortium

Tags

Data Storage data-science

Description

A community network for academic data science leaders, practitioners, and educators: The Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) builds communities of academic data science leaders, practitioners,…

Ask.CI


Website

https://ask.ci

Type

Community of Practice

Tags

NSF ACCESS Resources Cloud Analysis and Algorithms Debugging and Optimization Data Storage

Description

Ask.CI seeks to streamline knowledge sharing and encourage self-service learning through centralized aggregation of experience, lessons learned and best practices, by encouraging a respectful…

Campus Champions


Website

https://campuschampions.org

Type

Community of Practice

Tags

professional-development workforce-development

Description

The Campus Champions Program is a group of 800+ Campus Champions at 300+ US colleges, universities, and other research-focused institutions, whose role is to help researchers at their institutions…

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CaRCC


Website

https://carcc.org

Type

Consortium

Tags

resources professional-development workforce-development

Description

The Campus Research Computing Consortium is an organization of dedicated professionals developing, advocating for, and advancing campus research computing and data*…

CAREERS CT


Website

https://careers-ct.cyberinfrastructure.org

Type

Grant-Funded Program

Tags

professional-development workforce-development

Description

The CAREERS Cyberteam Program is a 3-year initiative funded by the National Science Foundation (Award No. 2018873) to build a regional pool of Research Computing Facilitators to support…

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CCIFTD


Type

Grant-Funded Program

Tags

professional-development research-facilitation training workforce-development

Description

The Certified Cyberinfrastructure Facilitator Training and Development (CCIFTD) program is a first-of-its-kind, non matriculated certification of professional development for CI Facilitators.…

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CASC


Website

https://casc.org

Type

Non-profit

Tags

management

Description

Founded in 1989, the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) is an educational nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization with 100 member institutions representing many of the nation’s most…

CyberAmbassadors


Website

CyberAmbassadors Home Page

Type

Grant-Funded Program

Tags

professional-development training

Description

Communication, Teamwork and Leadership training for CyberInfrastructure Professionals. This project provides professional skills training curriculum for technically proficient CI…

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CCMNet


Website

ccmnet.org

Type

Grant-Funded Program

Tags

community-outreach mentorship professional-development

Description

CCMNet unites cyberinfrastructure (CI) professionals to enhance community support for research and academic institutions, maximizing  CI utilization for research advancement through peer…

ERN


Website

https://www.ernrp.org

Type

Consortium

Tags

big-data data-access-protocols

Description

The Ecosytem for Research Networking (ERN) is a consortium of academic institutions, research facilities, core service providers, network providers, and industry partners, both public and private…

MGHPCC

MGHPCC


Website

https://mghpcc.org

Type

Consortium

Description

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) has three principal objectives: fostering collaborative computationally intensive research, operation of a data center dedicated…

NECT


Website

https://necyberteam.org

Type

Grant-Funded Program

Tags

professional-development training workforce-development

Description

The Northeast Cyberteam makes advanced computing and data resources and research computing facilitators more readily available to support computationally intensive research at small and…

SGCI


Website

https://sciencegateways.org

Type

Grant-Funded Program

Tags

big-data research-grants

Description

We empower the science gateway community by connecting people and resources to accelerate discovery.
Science gateways are online interfaces that give researchers, educators, and students easy…

ACM SIGHPC SYSPROS


Website

https://sighpc-syspros.org

Type

Community of Practice

Tags

administering-hpc cluster-management

Description

In order to meet the demands of high performance computing (HPC) researchers, large-scale computational and storage machines require many staff members who design, install, and maintain these…

SigHPCEdu


Website

SigHPC Education Home Page

Type

Community of Practice

Tags

professional-development training

Description

The SIGHPC Education chapter has as its purpose the promotion of interest in and knowledge of applications of High Performance Computing (HPC) and computational science. Join us in our efforts to…

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Globus


Website

https://www.globus.org

Type

Non-profit

Tags

cloud-storage scripting data-management data-management-software data-transfer

Description

Globus is a platform for research data management, used by leading non-profit and commercial research organizations, national laboratories, and government facilities worldwide. Operated by the…

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US-RSE


Website

https://us-rse.org

Type

Community of Practice

Tags

big-data data-access-protocols data-management research-grants data-compliance

Description

The US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE) is a community-driven effort focused on the increasingly important role of the Research Software Engineer. We focus our efforts on 4…

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Virtual Residency Program


Website

http://www.oscer.ou.edu/virtualresidency.php

Type

Community of Practice

Tags

professional-development proposal-development research-facilitation

Description

The Virtual Residency Program trains pre-service and in-service Research Computing and Data Facilitators, focusing primarily on professional/interpersonal skills and only secondarily on technical…

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WCI


Type

Community of Practice

Tags

cloud-computing visualization big-data data-analysis deep-learning

Description

The Workflows Community Initiative is a collaborative effort aimed at advancing the state-of-the-art in workflow systems and related technologies. The initiative brings together researchers,…