by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Data Analyst – CBS USDA FSA
locations
REMOTE
time type Full time
job requisition id R4940
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!
We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
SUMMARY
The Data Analyst will provide research support, analyze information sources, produce reports to assist decision making and technical assistance for USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA), Farm Loan Programs (FLP). Works on the Security Inspection and Operational Review program assessment data in support of multiple pilot programs. Data captured and analyzed will showcase key findings of the pilot program and be presented to the National USDA office for decision-making.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Works with the state field offices and contract team to receive regular data updates from the pilot programs, records and organizes data, and loads data into collection site.
- Supports the Project Manager administrator in maintaining the consolidated dataset for all pilot programs.
- Creates, maintains, and executes a data collection procedure and filing system to support the pilot programs and state field offices and other tools as needed.
- Assists with developing monthly data reports and requests, on both a recurring and as-needed basis.
- Provides ongoing user support and troubleshooting.
- Assists with developing data tracking procedures and protocols for pilot program for program follow-Up and for future phase decision making.
- Monitors data integrity of information captured and recorded in pilot programs and notify appropriate personnel of data impairments.
- Supports team requests with analysis and evaluation of data captured from pilot programs.
- Assesses adequacy of existing data for reporting requests.
- Assists team with troubleshooting technical issues, conducting queries, and retrieving data from various systems.
- Responsible for aiding in own self-development by being available and receptive to all training made available by the company.
- Plans daily activities within the guidelines of company policy, job description and supervisor’s instruction in such a way as to maximize personal output.
- Responsible for keeping own immediate work area in a neat and orderly condition to ensure safety of self and co-workers. Will report any unsafe conditions and/or practices to the appropriate supervisor and human resources. Will immediately correct any unsafe conditions to the best of own ability.
CNI CORE COMPETENCIES
Responsible for the integration of CNI Core Competencies into daily functions, including commitment to integrity, knowledge/quality of work, supporting financial goals of the company, initiative/motivation, cooperation/relationships, problem analysis / discretion, accomplishing goals through organization, positive oral/written communication skills, leadership abilities, commitment to Affirmative Action, reliability/dependability, flexibility and ownership/accountability of actions taken.
COMPLIANCE
Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance with all applicable rules (federal, state, local, Federal Acquisition Regulations, Code of Federal Regulations, Prime Contract requirements, etc.) for themselves and the company as a whole. Fosters an environment in which they will report any violations or reasonably suspected violation of CNI policy, FAR, and/or CFR and are comfortable discussing the myriad compliance, conflict, FAR, CFR, etc. issues that arise during the performance of a government contract.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree and at five (5) years’ of government experience. Experience multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment required.
JOB SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / ABILITIES
- Knowledge/experience with Microsoft Professional Suite (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint).
- Excellent oral, written, presentation and communication skills.
- Excellent facilitation and collaboration skills.
- Proven ability to take ownership of deliverables and drive successful execution.
- Ability to negotiate with peers and senior leaders to come to an agreed upon and productive solution to business problems.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and critical thinking skills.
- Technical proficiency regarding database design development, data models, techniques for data mining, and segmentation.
- Experience in handling reporting packages like Business Objects, programming (Javascript, XML, or ETL frameworks), databases.
- Proficiency in statistics and statistical packages like Excel, SPSS, SAS to be used for data set analyzing.
- Knowledge of data visualization software like Tableau.
- Knowledge of how to create and apply the most accurate algorithms to datasets in order to find solutions.
- Exceptional customer service skills with ability to build positive, professional relationships.
- Ability to communicate/explain technical information clearly and concisely to a broad range of people with varying levels of technical expertise.
- Exceptional organization skills with ability to prioritize tasks and to effectively manage multiple projects and priorities.
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to work both independently and in a highly collaborative, team environment.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
- Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
REASONING ABILITY
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. Work is primarily performed in an office environment. Regularly required to sit. Regularly required use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms to handle objects and operate tools, computer, and/or controls. Required to speak and hear. Occasionally required to stand, walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Exposed to general office noise with computers printers and light traffic.
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Product Design Manager
Location: United States/Remote
What is Underdog?
Founded by a team of industry veterans, Underdog was born with the idea that bringing strategic innovation to sports gaming and entertainment is the key to success in an exceptionally competitive market. Underdog has quickly established itself as a leader in the space, and is committed to building the best sports gaming platform in the industry — and **supporting the most passionate community of sports fans while doing it!
At Underdog, we’re not only about creating these awesome products, but also about growing our culture of passion, ownership, and fun! We believe that great companies are made out of great people. Our continual aim is to create an inclusive environment for everyone, at all levels, to achieve their highest potential at work.
We’re looking for an experienced Design leader to join our team! As a Senior Product Design Manager you will be responsible for leading and designing the next generation of Underdog products for either our Fantasy or Sportsbook products. You’ll team up with our product, research, and engineering teams to build engaging experiences for our players using design-thinking, product strategy and brand concepts. In addition, you will build, coach, and inspire a team of Product Designers to execute company objectives and reach their personal career goals.
Please note, Underdog is a US based company and no sponsorship is available for this position at this time.
What you’ll do:
- Lead product design solutions and identify future optimizations and enhancements for either our Fantasy or Sportsbook products
- Manage and grow a healthy team of product designers to design and create the best customer experience possible
- Set goals, roadmaps, and deadlines for the team to ensure we’re delivering timely and innovative features
- Push projects forward and work closely with product, research, and engineering partners to deeply understand issues related to our players’ experience
- Champion best practices at each stage of the design lifecycle: sketches, usability studies, wireframes, prototypes, presentations, and documentation.
- Collaborate and contribute to a world-class design team through knowledge shares, critiques and workshops.
- Ensure #SportsAreForEveryone
Who you are:
- Experienced Product Designer designing solutions for native mobile and web
- Prior experience as a leader managing and developing a team of product designers
- A humbled, motivated individual constantly geared to ship the most ideal solution and experience for the customer and their goals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex ideas and influence stakeholders at various levels
Even better if you have
- Experience in visual design, branding, and/or marketing
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Engineer (Backend)
GLOBAL REMOTE
DEV TEAM
FULL-TIME
About Rainforest
Rainforest QA is a distributed company full of smart, capable people from around the world who enjoy working together to make our customers successful.
Our mission is to make product quality accessible for every software company. The Rainforest QA solution combines no-code test automation and crowdsourced testing in a single, one-of-a-kind QA platform, allowing anyone to get the exact insights they need to release with quality, quickly.
About the Team
As a Senior Engineer at Rainforest QA you’ll be part of an experienced and diverse team with members all over the world.
We were built as a distributed team from the beginning and we’ve committed to implementing tools and processes that allow for and support continuous and effective communication across the world.
Check out our full interview process in this blog post.
About the Role
- Work on our main app, which contains the majority of our business logic and is written in Ruby-on-Rails and backed by PostgreSQL and Redis
- Work on our automated testing agent (Python), which executes the tests written by our customers and executes those tests using LLMs, computer vision algorithms and other ML techniques
- Work on numerous support services (including our work scheduler and VM management system – both of which manage hundreds of thousands of requests a day) written in a variety of languages (Elixir, Golang, Crystal, Node, Python) chosen because of their suitability to the problem the service is solving
- Work on internal tooling to improve the development experience of other engineers and ship faster and safer
- Collaborate with product managers and our customer facing teams to analyze customer problems and design high impact features
- Lead projects to implement those features
- Help other team members to achieve their goals
- Continuously learn about new technologies and ways to solve problems
- Work with our customer facing teams to triage, troubleshoot, and fix bugs
- Write unit and integration tests (including using our own product!) to ship high quality software
About You
- Extensive experience (at least 5 years) in Ruby (or equivalent dynamic language) and be extremely knowledgeable of the language and associated ecosystem
- Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails (or equivalent framework) and be extremely knowledgeable of the framework and associated ecosystem
- Experience in writing and debugging SQL
- Enthusiasm for building applications using tools like Ruby on Rails, Python, Golang, Elixir, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, and Kubernetes – amongst others
- Practical experience of working on a React codebase – this position is backend focused, but we expect you to have some grasp of the whole stack to be able to effectively communicate with engineers across the team, and can make frontend or infrastructure changes if needed
- Professional experience in engineering SaaS products
- Experience leading projects with teams
- An ownership mindset: you should look not only at what you’re asked to do, but ask why you’re doing it and how it impacts on the rest of the product, our customers, and whether it makes sense. We expect you to be responsible for your work and to resolve any bugs you might ship
- Excitement to learn
- Excellent communication skills and able to give and receive constructive feedback
- Happy to review code and have your code reviewed
- Can work effectively remotely with remote team members (we are a fully distributed company)
- Comfortable working in a large codebase with many stakeholders
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Note From FlexJobs: Please be aware that Coalition Technologies requires a skills test including video as part of their hiring process.
Digital Producer at Coalition Technologies
WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY
Coalition Technologies is devoted to delivering clients the highest quality work while providing our team a fun, thriving, and innovative environment. Along with the opportunity for tremendous career growth and rapid advancement, CT offers:
- The most competitive profit-sharing bonus plan in the industry, paying up to 50% of company profits to full-time employees each month!
- A highly competitive Paid Time Off plan, promoting quality work-life balance.
- Subsidized gym memberships to help team members feel their best.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance packages for all US-based team members.
- International Health Insurance Reimbursement Program for all international team members, a benefit unique to Coalition.
- Device upgrade and learning reimbursement programs.
- Motivating career development plans with clearly defined goals and rewards.
- Additional job-specific incentives and bonuses.
Plus, 100% of our team works remotely with the support of time tracking software. Our company culture specializes in supporting remote team members, and we’ve been doing so for more than a decade. CT welcomes your application, wherever in the world it’s coming from!
YOU SHOULD HAVE:
- Enough knowledge to pass a skills test in either web development or online marketing (SEO or PPC)
- Interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, negotiating, influencing, facilitation, decision-making, and conflict resolution skills
- Experience presenting professional materials to clients
- A Bachelor’s degree in computer sciences, marketing, or other similar programs
- Experience with project management or account management for multiple clients
- A solid understanding of project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed work plans and specifications, perform resource allocations, and run team meetings
- Familiarity with project management software such as Basecamp, JIRA, Asana, or Hubspot, etc
- An ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while being highly organized and detail-oriented
- A solid understanding of web design standards, usability, and rich media
- Familiarity with content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal
- Familiarity with e-commerce platforms like Shopify, Big Commerce and Magento (preferred)
- Proficiency in HTML/CSS (preferred)
- Proficiency in JavaScript & PHP (preferred)
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator (preferred)
- Proficiency in SEO, Google Ads (preferred)
- Excellent written and spoken English skills
- The availability to work 40 hours per week from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm PST
- Passion to build a startup
- A reliable workstation with a fast computer, microphone and speakers, reliable internet and power if working remotely
YOUR DUTIES AND TASKS:
- As a digital producer, you will be responsible for ongoing management of SEO and design/development accounts
- Assisting and reviewing the development of project scopes, considering financial, resource, and technological constraints including cost estimates with consideration to business impacts and risks
- Attending regular client meetings (as required) and participating in kick off calls/specialty calls with new clients
- Organizing internal strategy meetings to discuss client campaign strategies as a team
- Acting as a creative liaison between the client and team
- Responding promptly and reliably to client communication within 2 hours
- Clarifying and communicating project objectives and success criteria to the team
- Reviewing deliverables prepared by the team before passing them off to clients
- Ensuring that any project deliverables are complete, current, and stored appropriately
- Keeping project management based software and tasks up to date
- Maintaining awareness of the current industry environment that shapes opportunities for client solutions
- Upselling accounts by making recommendations to current clients regarding their website design and any additional online marketing strategies
- Closing-out projects and collecting final payment
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by Ronald Barron | Aug 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Project Manager and Executive Assistant to the COO – US
Operations & Logistics Washington, District of Columbia
Location: Washington, DC or US remote (EST)
Position Status: Full-time, Regular, Exempt
Starting Salary Range: The salary range for this position is $64,000-$76,000
About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse, and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long-term impact.
The Program / Department / Team (Program / Department Summary)
The Office of the COO is designed to maximize Mercy Corps’ operational efficiency and effectiveness to achieve its vision. This Office of the COO is responsible for operational leadership, which will include process efficiencies and change management.
The Office will focus on improving systems and operations with the goals of increased alignment, accountability, and the efficient allocation of resources as we work to execute the organization’s new strategy.
The Position
- The Project Manager & Executive Assistant will focus on providing high-level executive and administrative support to the Chief Operating Officer, including executive staffing, travel assistance, scheduling support, and project management.
- The Project Manager & Executive Assistant will build and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues, peer groups, senior leadership, and Mercy Corps’ Executive Leadership Team. They will quickly and effectively summarize complex information into clear, concise writing.
- The Project Manager & Executive Assistant will have a clear understanding of Mercy Corps’ mission and collaborative style of operation with the ability to work simultaneously on multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment supporting the COO with day-to-do project management. The Project Manager & Executive Assistant will be flexible and will have the ability to adapt to changing conditions and requirements.
Essential Responsibilities
ADMINISTRATIVE AND EXECUTIVE SUPPORT
- Provide primary administrative and executive support for the COO, including coordination and maintenance of her appointment and complex travel schedule, expense reports, visa applications, itineraries, etc.
- Liaise with the HQ and global teams to provide information and follow-up on key inter-team meetings.
- Provide planning and logistical support for key meetings, conferences and training events, including arrangement and preparation of venue, collection and dissemination of necessary documents, logistical support for participants and communication and required follow-up with all parties involved.
- Participate in high-level meetings involving the COO and manage notetaking and action points, while maintaining confidentiality.
- Maintain trackers, calendars and internal web content for the office of the COO.
- Maintain tracking and coordinate management of signature needs ensuring that signatures are handled in a timely way to relevant requestors.
- Provide proofreading, editing and formatting support for department documents.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders in implementing new projects and initiatives.
- Support internal and external COO communications.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- Lead management for key initiatives on departmental and interdepartmental projects owned by the COO and the Senior Director, Operations Management.
- Develop planning, sequencing and tracking of the above, including systems to do so efficiently. Steward and refine the COO key products, deliverables and tools including work plans and reports.
- Drive effective teamwork, communication, and collaboration across multiple stakeholder groups and liaise with the HQ, Regional Program Teams, and other global teams to provide information and follow-up on inter-team projects and initiatives.
- Support with proposal submissions and coordination with Regional Program Teams on issues letters, follow-on questions and other donor communications as needed.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS SUPPORT
- Prepare the COO for the board as well as external engagements, including support for and compilation of briefing materials, PowerPoint presentations, as needed.
- Support as required for Board of Director meetings, occasionally provide assistance to travel manager, miscellaneous administrative support.
- Prepare professional reports, summaries, and presentations as requested.
Supervisory Responsibility None
Accountability
Reports Directly To: Chief Operating Officer
Works Directly With:
- Executive Leadership Team, Board Liaison, Executive Team, Senior Director – Operations Management, Regional Teams and Leadership, Safety & Security, Administration & Facilities, Global Procurement & Logistics, Global Audit, Ventures, and Innovation teams.
Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders
- Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work.
- We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills
- BA in a relevant nonprofit field and international experience required.
- Professional experience support operations or support service initiatives
- 4+ years of professional experience in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, research, and written communication skills.
- Strong writing and editing skills, significant expertise editing other people’s writing.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to effectively gather and summarize large amounts of and at times, complex information from various sources.
- Prior experience with executive staffing, including executive meeting preparation, schedule management and travel arrangements strongly desired.
- 4+ years’ experience working as part of an Operations or Support Services Team for an international organization/nonprofit.
- Excellent computer skills required, including familiarity with the MS Officer 365 Suite including: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Google tools.
- Ability to take initiative and complete work or solve problems with minimal guidance while prioritizing tasks across the department.
- Sensitivity, skill and experience with public relations and correspondence to a wide variety of public constituents including media, donors, U.S. Government officials and international delegates as necessary.
- Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure and cooperatively with team members.
- The ability to take direction as well as work independently.
- Experience maintaining a high level of confidentiality on sensitive matters.
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