Undergraduate Outreach Assistant

University of Wisconsin Stevens Point • Stevens Point, WI

18d • $12

About The Position

The undergraduate outreach assistant will be responsible for a variety of tasks supporting private well and groundwater outreach efforts by the Center for Watershed Science and Education (CWSE). The CWSE in the College of Natural Resources is a partnership with the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Extension. The mission of the CWSE is to help communities maintain high-quality drinking water, groundwater, lakes, and rivers through water quality assessment, applied research, education, technical assistance, and to prepare students for careers in water resources. The candidate will gain hands-on experience working with Excel spreadsheets and Microsoft Access databases, with the potential opportunity to incorporate additional data manipulation via programming languages. The candidate will also gain first-hand experience supporting outreach programming geared towards private well owners in Wisconsin.

Requirements

• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently
• Willing and able to work well with others in a team setting

Nice To Haves

• Experience entering, graphing, and interpreting data
• Experience programming in R
• Experience using ArcGIS or other spatial analysis tools
• Knowledge of statistical analysis
• Familiarity with common groundwater quality concerns in Wisconsin

Responsibilities

• Data entry
• Preparation of materials required for groundwater monitoring and outreach programming (sample bottle preparation, gathering interpretive materials, etc.)
• Occasional travel to outreach events (schedule permitting)
• Data analysis
• Data visualization

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees