Data Management & Cleanup Assistant — Hybrid Role

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research seeks a Student Assistant III to support data management, entry, and cleaning for the EdEC Center and the NSF NCAR alumni database project. The role involves designing and maintaining databases, processing legacy records, and ensuring clean data foundations for Phase 2 migration into the Salesforce CRM.

Hybrid work with at least one day per week in the office, minimal supervision, and strong problem-solving skills are expected.

Qualifications

• Must be enrolled (or intend to enroll in the next regular session) for credit in an accredited secondary or post secondary school, college or Ariality, or in a trade school that has received a Certificate or Approval.

Responsibilities

• Assists with the design and organization of databases, maintaining and augmenting existing data structures and applications.
• Performs data entry, data cleaning, and validation of program/database results.
• Performs complex calculations, functions, and develops mathematical algorithms to analyze data sets.
• Designs and modifies existing procedures, programs, or instruments to accomplish data objectives.
• Processing, formatting, and cleaning legacy participant records and lab-specific spreadsheets to align with the new relational database schema.
• Organizing and structuring datasets to ensure a clean data foundation for future Phase 2 migration into Salesforce CRM
• Assisting in distributing, organizing, and maintaining the standardized data-entry collection templates.
• Coordinating with lab data coordinators to resolve discrepancies during data integrity reviews.
• Assisting the Project Lead in communicating submission timelines and answering data-entry questions.
• Identifying and merging duplicate participant profiles across labs.
• Integrating external identifiers (such as ORCID data) for long-term tracking.
• Advanced knowledge in hire data entry, cleaning, and database management.
• Organizing and prioritizing assignments within projects.
• Effective editing, proofreading, and explaining complex technical ideas and issues.

Skills

Data entry

Data cleaning

Database design

Data analysis

Project coordination

Education

Enrolled in accredited program

Tools

Salesforce

Google Sheets

Job description

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research seeks a Student Assistant III to support data management, entry, and cleaning for the EdEC Center and the NSF NCAR alumni database project. The role involves designing and maintaining databases, processing legacy records, and ensuring clean data foundations for Phase 2 migration into the Salesforce CRM.

Hybrid work with at least one day per week in the office, minimal supervision, and strong problem-solving skills are expected.