The Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), is responsible for the stewardship of the nation's living marine resources and their habitats. NMFS Southeast Regional Office (SERO) located in St. Petersburg, Florida is responsible for the management of federal fisheries in waters adjacent to coastal states from North Carolina through Texas, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the U.S. Caribbean.

The Southeast For-Hire Integrated Electronic Reporting (SEFHIER) program will use electronic reporting to collect data on catch and effort from all for-hire vessels (> 3,000) with federal for-hire permits for reef fish, coastal migratory pelagics, dolphin wahoo, and snapper-grouper in the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) and Atlantic (Maine to Texas). Previously, landings information was obtained from less than 3% of all federally permitted for-hire vessels.

Duties of the Fisheries Quality Analyst will include the following:

• Provide program support to monitor, inspect, and manage the incoming data records from over 3,000 fishing vessels; communicate with the SEFHIER program lead regarding issues and possible solutions to problems; develop QA/QC protocols; contact fishermen about potential errors; creating protocols for correcting erroneous data; and matching data records (e.g., hail-out, logbook, global positioning system (GPS) positions).
• Review data records based on the QA/QC protocols.
• Upload data from over 3,000 fishing vessels daily and review the uploaded data based on QA/QC protocols. Some data records will be reviewed quickly (less than 30 minutes) but other records may be more complex and require more time to be reviewed.
• Develop queries to analyze and review data for management action, compliance, and reporting.
• Attend SEFHIER meetings when requested.

The Fisheries Quality Analyst selected Should Meet the following Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in a field related to biological science or biological statistics.
• Knowledge of Gulf and Atlantic fisheries.
• A minimum of 1 year of QA/QC experience.
• Ability to pass a NOAA background check.
• Experience in auditing and querying large data sets stored in a relational database system.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills, ability to deal with challenging personalities.
• Ability to work with interdisciplinary teams to develop recommendations for improvements in operating procedures.
• Advanced proficiency in MS products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access) SQL language; advanced proficiency includes the ability to perform the following:

• MS Excel: pivot tables, formula functions, formatting, creating charts, linking workbooks, sorting and filtering, Data Analysis ToolPak;
• MS Word: formatting and page set-up, creating tables and figure captions and lists, mail merge, mailing/printing mailing labels, and tracking changes;
• MS PowerPoint: working with custom slides and templates, animation, and SmartArt and textboxes;
• MS Access: sorting and filtering records, creating reports, grouping and summarizing data in queries.

The Ideal Fisheries Quality Analyst will have the following:

• Knowledge of fishery management processes (e.g., fishery management councils, fishery management plan amendments, fishing regulations).
• Experience working directly with the fishing community.
• Experience creating materials (e.g., frequently asked questions documents, informative one-page documents, newsletters) in plain language.
• Experience performing compliance work, which includes directing industry on regulatory requirements and appropriate corrective action, assisting with the operation hardware from afar, troubleshooting problems.

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