Core Duties & Responsibilities
- Monitors a shared inbox and responds to incoming work-item requests promptly and professionally
- Reads each request carefully to identify the correct productionized script and the correct inputs to use
- Checks outputs for completeness and obvious errors before delivering them
- Communicates clearly with requestors and the DSE team on status, delays, or questions, and escalates out-of-scope requests to a DSE or the Director of Data Support
Requirements
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong sense of timeliness and reliability in managing a queue of discrete tasks
- Clear, professional written communication skills, particularly over email
- Comfort with, or willingness to quickly learn, basic command-line/terminal use
- Ability to follow documented procedures precisely and consistently
- Background check required
Preferred Skills & Abilities
- Interest in progressive politics, campaigns, or voter data
- Some prior exposure to Terminal or a Unix command-line interface
- Interest in eventually growing into a Data Services Engineer or similar technical role
Skills Required
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong timeliness and reliability in managing discrete tasks
- Clear, professional written communication skills, particularly over email
- Comfort with or willingness to quickly learn basic command-line or terminal use
- Ability to follow documented procedures precisely and consistently
- Successful completion of a background check
- Interest in progressive politics, campaigns, or voter data
- Prior exposure to Terminal or a Unix command-line interface
- Interest in growing into a Data Services Engineer or similar technical role
What We Do
Catalist provides data and data-related services exclusively to progressive organizations to help them better identify, understand, and communicate with the people they need to persuade and mobilize. For nearly a decade, Catalist has been the data utility powering the progressive community. Owned by a trust, we collaborate with data-drive progressive organizations with a variety of goals: issue advocates, organizers, pollsters, analysts, consultants, campaigners, and more. We work with the community, for the community. Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 240 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Working with Catalist can help you build membership, target persuasive messaging, engage activists, drive an issue agenda, and mobilize voters.
