Data Management Specialist 2-Collaborative Fish Information Programs

Group Definition: Data Management Specialists (Natural Sciences) use a background in the natural sciences as they assist in the population, maintenance, enhancement and distribution of databases.  They locate, obtain, standardize, enter, verify, and correct various data sets related to project goals and work plans.

 

Position/Project Specifics: The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) is seeking a self-motivated and high performing Data Management Specialist 2 (Natural Sciences) - Collaborative Fish Information Programs. The Specialist will be assisting primarily with the Klamath Basin projects that include supporting the collaborative Klamath Basin Integrated Fisheries Restoration and Monitoring Plan (IFRMP) and its Klamath Basin Monitoring Plan group (Basin Strategy, www.ifrmp.org) and the Klamath Basin Fisheries Collaborative (KBFC, www.kbfishc.org). The Specialist will also support the collaborative StreamNet Program (www.streamnet.org) with focus on its Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP, www.pnamp.org).

The position requires working with the USGS-Klamath Falls Field Station. The individual will work with local USGS and USFWS partners in Klamath Falls and surrounding areas, and with a PSMFC team located in Portland Oregon and in Washington. The position requires engaging with tribal, federal, state agency partners, watershed councils, and others that are involved with these projects by supporting collaborative meetings and other tasks.

The Specialist will work closely within a team environment on a diversity of tasks that range from organizing and facilitating collaborative meetings, designing and implementing workshops, compiling information from multiple sources to inform outreach products and project reports, updating program websites, developing draft products (e.g., documents, presentations, spreadsheets) for use in existing processes, establishing/maintaining cooperative relationships with partners, understanding of metadata to maintain and support users of existing tools such as PNAMP's Monitoring Resources (monitoringresources.org), Klamath IFRMP tools (e.g., www.ifrmp.org/funding), KBFC tools (www.kbfishc.org) and supporting a diversity of collaborative processes.

At times, the Data Management Specialists (Natural Sciences) will perform the following duties:

• Participate in organization and implementation of collaborative meetings by setting up meeting technological equipment (e.g., meeting owl, projectors, laptops, MS Teams meeting platform), taking meeting notes in SharePoint, assisting with preparation of meeting material and presentations. This includes assisting with establishment of subcommittees/teams, process for agenda development, active facilitation, and conducting follow up work as necessary. Meetings may include the KBFC leadership team meetings, KBFC annual meeting, Klamath Monitoring Plan workshops, PNAMP/StreamNet annual committee meetings, Fish Monitoring Work Group meetings, Emerging Technologies Information Sessions, and a proposed 2026/2027 Klamath Basin Science Summit.
• Assisting with the compilation and synthesis of information to support the development of collaborative products, including basin wide project annual reports, PNAMP/CAP newsletters, Klamath Basin Strategy, KBFC data system guides, documents and proposals, project protocols and methods for documentation of metadata, and selection criteria for proposed projects.
• Providing technical support to KBFC members submitting data in and/or accessing data from the KBFC data system, PNAMP Monitoring Resources users, and to others using web-based tools supported by the PSMFC team, such as the IFRMP.org website Funding Opportunity Tool and other query tools.
• Assisting with managing and maintaining pages and content at MonitoringResources.org. This includes keeping site text (Glossary, FAQ, and general guidance) up to date; entering or updating methods and protocols in MonitoringMethods.org as needed; reviewing content entered by other users and providing feedback based on the quality of documentation; providing online/phone support and demonstrations/trainings for the tools as requested; coordinating with other users to finalize (publish) content in the tools.
• Assisting with content management and updates to maintain accurate membership database, distribution lists in MailChimp/constant contact, project YouTube videos (www.youtube.com/channel/UC6i-mCyumwk7x9hNy9WdvdQ) and maintain Wor