The Northern Great Plains Inventory & Monitoring Network is advertising for a permanent, GS-9 Assistant Data Manager located in Rapid City, SD. The announcement closes on June 25, 2012.
Salary range: $47,448.00 to $61,678.00 / Per Year Those interested in applying can find the announcement at http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/318587500 or http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/318585900 DUTIES: You will provide technical data management support for the Northern Great Plains Inventory and Monitoring Network (NGPN). The duties include developing and maintaining custom interactive databases (Microsoft Access and SQL Server) for complex inventory, monitoring, and management projects for a variety of natural resources. Supervision is by the NGPN Data Manager. The job requires working closely with Network staff, the 13 Parks in the Network, and outside scientists and contractors. You may enter data directly, but more often advises others in data entry and quality control and assurance measures to validate raw data. After validation you will run, create, and maintain custom queries to provide summary statistics and reports to scientists who use the data to analyze and interpret biological, physical, geographic and other geospatial data. You are responsible for working with program scientists to create metadata for each database and to document data management procedures through detailed standard operating procedures
