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Washington State Department of Natural Resources Data Specialist, Data Consultant 1 (DC1) in Olympia, Washington
Data Specialist, Data Consultant 1 (DC1) Recruitment #2024-5-P445 Full-time, Project, Represented position Anticipated Project is July 2024-June2026 Location: Natural Resources Building- Olympia, WA *Work Hours and Partial Telework flexibility may be available and considered * *Salary: $3,619.00 - $4,842.00 Monthly * The successful candidate will work within a small team on a two-year project to help preserve the 57-year-long career of a retired geologic mapper in Washington State. The project team will create a comprehensive inventory of the retired mapper's recent, large donation to our Survey, comprised of numerous physical samples, digital sample inventories, analyses, field notebooks, and unpublished maps. Once the project is complete, the inventory will be publicly available to support further research. Our ideal candidate is a proven team player, self-motivated, detail-oriented, highly organized, and can bring their Excel wizardry and problem-solving mindset to the project.
Responsibilities:
- Assist the project team in the design and creation of an Excel-based inventory database structure to adequately capture the information about the donated materials
- While at the Survey's warehouse, catalog rock samples from the collection into a warehouse inventory.
- Re-box and re-label samples for long-term storage as samples are cataloged and cross-checked.
- Assemble metadata records for all physical records, including samples, field notebooks, reports, draft geologic maps, and analytical results in the new Collection Database.
- Ensure that all samples contained within the Collection Database have a geographic location associated with them
- Perform quality control analysis on the newly constructed and updated datasets
*Required Qualifications: *
- Bachelor's degree, that includes either coursework in math or statistics OR equivalent education and/or experience in analysis, research, or statistics will substitute for the above.
- Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Demonstrated commitment to fostering and supporting an environment that honors diversity, equity, inclusion, and environmental justice practices.
- Perform assigned duties in a manner consistent with applicable laws, regulations and public records retention and requests are followed.
- Skills in effectively working in a team-based setting.
- Effective oral and written communications.
- Skills in organizational management.