Civitech

Data Acquisition Specialist

Austin, TX or Remote · Director

Sponsorship not specified$65k-$85kDetected 102 days ago

SQLData ScienceProject ManagementResearchCommunicationTime Management

About the role

Civitech is a remote-first company hiring within our current footprint of 27 states (AL, AK, CA, CO, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, MA, MD, MN, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WY); Civitech does have an office in Austin, TX.
It is important that our team reflects the diversity of the organizations we seek to serve.
We strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and others otherwise underrepresented in the technology sector to apply.

Work closely with technical staff to build and apply web scrapers
Drive fast-paced, complex research projects through thoughtful planning, organization and delegation
Lead a research project focused on the collection of data from public information requests
Independently develop project checkpoints, milestones, and dashboards for assessing and communicating progress to the broader team
Experience partnering with software engineers and technical staff to build simple tools
About our Data Acquisition Team: The Data Acquisition team is focused on building processes to extract, normalize, ingest and regularly refresh large volumes of civic data.
Our rigorous approach to product design, testing, and data science leads to accurate assessments of our outcomes and challenges us to constantly improve our tools.
We seek to understand the challenges our partners face and use our skills and creativity to help them solve them.

Experience using web scrapers to collect data from both static and dynamic sources
Experience filing public records requests
3-7 years of professional experience in data acquisition and project management
Proficiency with SQL
Experience maintaining complex datasets
Experience working with political data
Additional Qualifications (desired but not required)

We act with Integrity - At Civitech, we hold ourselves to the highest standards and value open and transparent communications with all of our stakeholders.
We are Changemakers - As a team, Civitech seeks to make transformational change in our democracy by eliminating obstacles meant to hamper contribution from every member of the community.
We are Collaborators - Buoyed by our mission, we look for opportunities to partner with everyone committed to making democracy easier to participate in.
We are Bold - We recognize that disruptive change won't come with doing business as usual. Civitech seeks to revolutionize civic participation by bringing innovation and creativity to politics.

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