Blue Forest

Data Science Manager

Blue Forest

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York

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Salary

💰 $90,000 - $110,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

BigQueryMySQLOpen SourceOraclePythonSQL

About the role

  • Design and deploy custom databases to meet project and partner needs for storing, curating, and analyzing data
  • Conduct reviews of procedures for acquiring and managing data to identify areas for improvement
  • Check in with staff leading metrics tracking to streamline processes and identify challenges and solutions
  • Compile and manage consistent data flows from multiple platforms and data types to support project development, management, and reporting
  • Improve data workflows and processing tasks by implementing data quality control procedures to ensure FRB impact reporting accuracy, completeness, and credibility
  • Develop and maintain metadata to ensure discoverability and usability of knowledge
  • Collaborate with science and project development staff and external partners to identify data needs and requirements
  • Educate staff in basic data management, including technical support and training (1-on-1 and group sessions)
  • Provide technical training expertise on data onboarding and management using video tutorials, strategy documentation, and good practices
  • Connect science and project development, working closely with relationship managers and implementation partners to strengthen technical partnerships
  • Leverage data platforms such as Google Earth Engine and ArcGIS Online, and other interactive reporting tools, to communicate expected outcomes of FRB projects
  • Work closely with FRB tracking and impact reporting teams to integrate partner data and systems
  • Report to Director of Conservation Science; collaborate across departments in a fast-paced, cross-departmental environment
  • Travel up to 15% and participate in an annual in-person team retreat

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience working directly with database management systems such as Oracle and MySQL, and can configure, manage, and maintain relational databases
  • Familiar with SQL, BigQuery, & writing scripts (Python, R) to wrangle unstructured data
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, organization, and attention to detail
  • Able to navigate ambiguity, prioritize workloads, manage projects, and communicate as part of a team working remotely
  • Strong communication skills to translate technical concepts to a non-technical audience (desired)
  • Experience applying both open source and proprietary geospatial tools (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, R) to perform spatial data management, querying, and reporting (desired)
  • Eagerness to work in a transdisciplinary environment and value knowledge plurality (desired)
  • Willingness to travel up to 15%