Data Analyst C

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Data Analyst C

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Data Analyst C

Job Description Summary

The Wildlife Futures Program (WFP), a wildlife health partnership between the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) and the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) is seeking a Data Analyst to join our team. The Data Analyst will be responsible for ongoing development of the Shared Wildlife Health Information System (SWHIS), a cloud-based application for us by state fish and wildlife agencies in managing, visualizing, and interpreting their wildlife health data. Specifically, they will contribute to the back-end cloud-based infrastructure management and developing and testing of new features in partnership with the Geospatial Solutions team at the Timmons Group. The Data Analyst will support current SWHIS stakeholders (Users) by identifying “bugs,” and cleaning data for upload to the system, and the position will proactively engage and onboard new stakeholders through presentations and one-on-one meetings. In addition, the Data Analyst will support the database needs and requests for individual and program-level data collecting and management within the Wildlife Futures Program including, data from disease surveillance, diagnostics, research, and biobanking. Participation in the preparation of scientific papers and grant proposals is also required.

The position is based remotely. Position is contingent upon grant funding.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Work with Timmons Group to contribute to back-end cloud-based infrastructure management to support existing SWHIS stakeholders and to develop and test new features.
• Work with Wildlife Futures personnel to integrate existing database systems used for managing the program’s wildlife health data from field collection to biobanking
• Promote SWHIS to new stakeholder groups through presentations and one-on-one meetings.
• Work with Wildl