Employer Industry: Public Health

Why consider this job opportunity:
- Hourly wage of $17.80
- Opportunity for hands-on experience in public health, data science, and geospatial analysis
- Potential for position renewal based on performance and funding availability
- Hybrid work environment with a mix of in-person and virtual work
- Chance to collaborate with a large group of researchers and contribute to impactful research projects

What to Expect (Job Responsibilities):
- Identify and access publicly available datasets related to drinking water quality
- Extract, clean, and organize data for research purposes using tools such as R, Python, and Excel
- Document data sources, methods, and processing steps for reproducibility and transparency
- Collaborate with researchers to upload analysis-ready data to Harvard Dataverse
- Assist with experiments, data entry, data cleaning, and data analysis

What is Required (Qualifications):
- Some applicable educational, technical, or professional experience required
- Ability to perform administrative and research tasks with some discretion under faculty direction

How to Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications):
- Programming skills in R, Python, Julia, and others
- Experience with geospatial analysis using script-based or GUI-based software (QGIS)
- Strong attention to detail and ownership of research tasks

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