What are the responsibilities and job description for the FamilySearch Data Quality Intern position at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Job Description
We are seeking an intern to aid us in auditing, measuring, reporting, and improving data quality of indexed records. This position is primarily for educational or religious purposes and should be used for providing valuable educational experiences for the Intern. It is to give the Intern an opportunity to see how principles and practices learned in their educational institutions are applied in actual work setting. Under general supervision, the Intern performs work as assigned by the department.
This is a part-time internship for one year. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States and preferably located in the Wasatch Front in Utah.
Responsibilities
About Us
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
We are seeking an intern to aid us in auditing, measuring, reporting, and improving data quality of indexed records. This position is primarily for educational or religious purposes and should be used for providing valuable educational experiences for the Intern. It is to give the Intern an opportunity to see how principles and practices learned in their educational institutions are applied in actual work setting. Under general supervision, the Intern performs work as assigned by the department.
This is a part-time internship for one year. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States and preferably located in the Wasatch Front in Utah.
Responsibilities
- Overseeing the work of visual audits from the usage of statistical sampling methodologies.
- Working with volunteers and service missionaries to conduct visual audits and communicating the results throughout the organization.
- Other analytical work
- Familiarity with historical records
- Indexing from a genealogical perspective
- Written language expertise (for the reading of historical records)
- Family History
- Microsoft Excel (Formatting, formulas, VBA, and macros)
- Reporting information using graphs, Tableau, PowerBI and SharePoint
- Database information systems (SQL, DBeaver, and Dataflux)
- Experience with Databricks
- Basic Statistics (Confidence interval, Tests of Hypothesis, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error)
- Statistical Sampling Methodologies (Simple Random, Systematic, Stratified, and Cluster Sampling)
- Language skills in multiple languages is a plus
About Us
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.