Geospatial, Technology, and Data Lead

Description:

The Geospatial, Technology, and Data Lead is responsible for creating and maintaining geospatial databases of racial covenants, managing the workflow for covenant transcriptions, creating maps, delivering presentations and responding to community inquiries, and overseeing research related to the covenants data sets, as well as maintenance of the project website and training interns in these areas. The Geospatial, Technology, and Data Lead modifies practices and procedures to improve efficiency and quality, searches for better ways to effectively achieve end results, supports the project mission by addressing information management needs of diverse teams working with diverse data sets, and works under general supervision, but has the discretion to make daily operational decisions. The Geospatial, Technology, and Data Lead is both a project manager and a data manager. Project management responsibilities include developing work plans, tracking tasks and overall progress, generating documentation, and communicating project status to stakeholders.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversee and manage spatial data infrastructure for the project (20%)
  • Join normalized Zooniverse data to existing parcels datasets.
  • Manually map covenants parcels where appropriate using historical plat maps.
  • Create maps of covenants and/or related data as needed.
  • Create, manage, and maintain the spatial databases of racial covenants for each partner geography.
  • Manage and maintain a time-enabled web map of the racial covenants for use on the web page.

• Oversee and manage OCR and deed processing protocols (15%)
  • Facilitate transfer for deed images from partner geographies.
  • Deed image pre-processing.
  • Adjust and run OCR scripts.
  • Flag deed images containing racial language.
  • Upload batches of flagged images to Zooniverse.

• Oversee and manage crowd-sourced data collection (15%)
  • Maintain existing transcription workflows.
  • Create new workflows in Zooniverse to facilitate low-barrier, crowdsourced transcription of deeds identified with racial language and adapt as necessary for new geographies.
  • Export and normalize transcription data.

• Community Engagement & Outreach (15%)
  • Coordinate and deliver presentations to build community relationships, mobilize volunteers, and share goals and findings of the project.
  • Write materials for academic and general audiences to convey the insights and methodologies of Mapping Prejudice.

• Research (15%)
  • Oversee and coordinate research data collection activities.
  • Oversee research activities to ensure ethical conduct.
  • Perform research planning and implementation; interpret and develop policies and carry out policy analysis, etc. requiring independent judgement.
  • Develop relationships with community partners to craft research questions and geospatial analysis and visualizations.
  • Develop relationships with academic and policy collaborators to develop research agenda and outputs.

• Web Development (10%)
  • Oversee and coordinate the management and maintenance of the Mapping Prejudice website.

• Leadership (10%)
  • Develop and implement comprehensive timelines, project plans, and identify resources to manage and meet grant deadlines.
  • Set goals and design strategies for meeting goals.
  • Coordinate project work across disparate geographies.
  • Train, oversees, and directs the work of project interns.

Qualifications: