Research Analyst 3 (PCN 114267)

About the role

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Sport Fish is recruiting a Research Analyst 3 position in the Research and Technical Services (RTS) group in the Anchorage office.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of various databases, spreadsheets, procedures, and SAS programs that support coding, estimation, and summary reporting for the annual Statewide Harvest Survey.
• Reviewing returned survey forms (or submitted data) as it pertains to fishing locations, effort, harvest and catch to prepare returned surveys for data entry.
• Using specialized SAS programs to perform various consistency checks on survey response data and doing detailed research necessary to resolve errors and discrepancies that are found.
• Calculation of preliminary and final estimates (statistics) for the annual Statewide Harvest Survey, including estimates of standard errors and confidence intervals.
• Coinciding review of the annual preliminary estimates among regional biologists and making edits to reported data and preliminary estimates based upon this review process.
• Working in coordination with Program Lead, biometricians, research analysts, and regional biologists to prepare the annual summary report and update the historical estimate database so the information is available to ADF&G staff and agency partners.
• Responding to ad-hoc requests for summary estimates from the Statewide Harvest Survey that come from regulatory bodies (i.e. Board of Fisheries), other agencies, the legislature, universities, NGOs, and the general public.

Requirements

The position requires a valid driver's license.

Qualifications

• Education and/or progressively responsible professional experience which included investigative research or statistical analysis.

Skills

Knowledge of the principles, procedures, and tools of data management, such as modeling techniques, data backup, data recovery, data dictionaries, data warehousing, data mining, data archiving, data disposal, and data standardization processes.

Benefits

The benefits of joining our team include working in a diverse and inclusive environment, efficient collaboration with a variety of natural resource managers, researchers, and the public, and the opportunity to work a hybrid telework schedule.

Pay

$2,725.50 Biweekly

Schedule

Flexible/Hybrid