Remote Marine Species Data Archivist at Multiplier
Multiplier · San Francisco, United States Of America · Remote
- Junior
The Environmental Data Governance Initiative (EDGI) is working to ensure the long-term preservation and access of essential data and information about ocean wildlife. We are seeking two part-time employees to support data archiving for this effort, with an esimated effort of 5-10 hours per week. Employees will work from home and no travel is involved in these positions.
POSITION SUMMARY & PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the supervision of project leads, employees will:
- Locate and archive data and information
- Create data documentation
- Support the project team in publishing data and data products
Employees will be trained on EDGI’s methodologies and have regular check-ins with project leads to set direction and review work products. This position does not require coding experience; if employees do make contributions to EDGI’s open tools and codebase those will be visible in EDGI’s Github repositories.
In order to contribute to the archiving project, employees need to have:
In order to contribute to the archiving project, employees need to have:
- Internet that allows timely access to and downloading of files up to 10 MB
- Familiarity with Google Suite
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
The ideal candidate has good organizational and time management skills. Candidates will benefit from being self-directed and having the capacity to work independently.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
EDGI’s mission is to advance the environmental right to know. Through cross-disciplinary work, EDGI protects and enhances public access to environmental information, and supports the public to learn from and leverage that information. As part of this work, EDGI creates best practices, tools, and workflows for data preservation; connects organizations and institutions to improve data governance; and fosters a broad, global network of environmental data practitioners.
EDGI is an independent operating project of the nonprofit umbrella organization, Multiplier, a nationally recognized nonprofit with a growing portfolio of innovative initiatives that conserve and protect a sustainable and resilient world (www.multiplier.org)
Multiplier and EDGI celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams and partnerships that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Multiplier and EDGI are also committed to providing an environment of mutual respect that is free from discrimination and harassment. Multiplier and EDGI prohibit discrimination in its governance, programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, marital status, amnesty, status as a protected veteran, because all or part of an individual’s income is derived from public assistance, or for any other non-merit based factor.
EDGI is an independent operating project of the nonprofit umbrella organization, Multiplier, a nationally recognized nonprofit with a growing portfolio of innovative initiatives that conserve and protect a sustainable and resilient world (www.multiplier.org)
Multiplier and EDGI celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams and partnerships that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Multiplier and EDGI are also committed to providing an environment of mutual respect that is free from discrimination and harassment. Multiplier and EDGI prohibit discrimination in its governance, programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, marital status, amnesty, status as a protected veteran, because all or part of an individual’s income is derived from public assistance, or for any other non-merit based factor.
