Program/Data Analyst Fellowship

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MobilizeGreen and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks conservation-minded Program/Data Analyst Fellow to serve in the Anchorage Inspection Office under the Office of Law Enforcement in Anchorage, AK. The position will focus on database management, database analysis, and program coordination for the beach-found marine mammal walrus ivory database and tagging program.

As a Fellow, you will work in a beautiful setting, learning maintenance, project management, equipment use, and leadership development. Through mentorship and training, Fellows will gain the opportunity to launch their career with a non-competitive or through other hiring authorities once they successfully complete their fellowship.

MobilizeGreen is an organization committed to inclusion. MobilizeGreen seeks applications from all participants who meet the position requirements, including women, people of color, Indigenous people, individuals of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, military veterans, and members of other historically disenfranchised groups. All are encouraged to apply.

Location: Anchorage, AK

Term: 36 weeks/Full-time (40 hours per week), on-site position

Duty Station: Anchorage Inspection Office

Benefits:

• Hands on learning and job training experience
• Paid orientation and travel to orientation
• Mentorship for career and professional development
• Weekly living allowance ($800 per week)
• Housing
• Relocation assistance (if applicable)
• Health insurance option
• Certificate of non-competitive hiring eligibility (with successful completion of fellowship). Other authorities may apply.

Position Duties:

• Maintaining and updating the database of certificate information for beach-found walrus hard parts (such as tusks, bones, and other items) to ensure data accuracy and accessibility.
• Analyzing database trends, creating reports to identify gaps or areas for improvement in the program, and organizing and digitizing records to ensure compliance and accessibility.
• Supporting the coordination of the tagging program, which requires non-native Alaskans to tag their beach-found walrus hard parts and receive a certificate of legal ownership. Fellow will assist in training new taggers at various refuge offices to address the decline in available taggers in recent years. They will also collaborate with refuge staff to raise awareness about the tagging program, develop and distribute informational materials, and provide administrative assistance such as data entry and correspondence.
• Assisting with cataloging seized evidence and its disposal into various databases.
• Performs duties related to the Service’s responsibility to distribute eagles to registered tribal members including retrieving, collecting, shipping, and cataloging reported and received live and dead eagles.
• Assisting with databases associated with the US Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Law Enforcement Wildlife Inspection Program, including an analysis of targeting results associated with wildlife trafficking and recommendations for improvement.
• Performs trainee level analyses associated with data collection and data management. Assignments will involve trainee level tasks in the following areas:
  • Tagging of beach found walrus and sea otter skulls by non-Alaska natives as required for legal ownership.
  • Entering beach found marine mammal beach found records into a database.
  • Ensuring quality control on legacy records entered into the beach found database.
  • Assisting with training US Fish and Wildlife Service employees in tagging walrus tusk and sea otter skulls.
  • Assisting in training US Fish and Wildlife Service employees in entering records created from tagging activities into the database.
  • Analysis and application of risk targeting information and identifying trends to each inspection situation.
  • Assisting in the collecting, shipping, and cataloging of reported and received dead eagles in support of the distribution of eagle parts to tribes for ceremonial purposes.
  • Potentially assist with site visits for training marine mammal tagging and database usage.
  • Assists with research on social media and e-commerce sites focused on the sale of protected wildlife parts or products.

Qualifications:

• The ability to work independently as well as with focused groups on assigned tasks.
• Basic working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite of products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Forms).
• Effective written and verbal skills, and the ability to communicate well with diverse audiences.
• The ability to work within databases and manipulate data.
• An interest in utilizing collected data to be use in informed wildlife management decisions or assisting in wildlife trafficking investigations.

Eligibility:

• Be pursuing or have an undergraduate or associates in: Data analysis, Natural resource management, Natural sciences, Earth sciences, History, Archeology, Anthropology, Park and recreation management, Law enforcement/police science, Social sciences, Museum sciences, Business administration, Public administration, Behavioral sciences, Sociology, and another closely related subject pertinent to the management and protection of natural and cultural resources.
• Must be 18 years old by project date.
• Must have a strong interest in the FWS fellowship program.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or lawful permanent resident.

For more information on MobilizeGreen, go to: www.mobilizegreen.org

Salary : $800