- Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time · Associate
- $65K–$70K per year
The role supports the Forest Service Research Data Archive (FS RDA) by preserving and publishing digital scientific data and related research products. It involves processing diverse data types, developing metadata, and providing support to researchers.
Compensation
$65,000 - $70,000
Responsibilities
- Review, analyze, and organize a wide variety of files and documents to ensure accurate categorization and accessibility; maintain orderly digital filing system.
- Review metadata (data documentation) submitted by scientists, which may also involve helping write metadata.
- Verify metadata are complete, fully describe data, are compliant with the FS RDA's metadata standard, and are understandable by a non-subject matter expert.
- Review data submitted by scientists. Ensure data are in proper archival format and fully described in the associated metadata.
- Provide assistance and/or consultation with the preparation of data and supplemental files for publication (tabular, geospatial, sound, video, databases, documents, images).
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with natural resources, environment, or geospatial specialization
- Nice to have: Microsoft Word
- Nice to have: Excel
- Nice to have: Adobe Acrobat
- Nice to have: Notepad