Student Assistant – Data Processing (Thai Nationality) at RIMES
Position Description: The objective of this position is to support system developers of RIMES HQ office and countries’ office, in updating, maintaining, and processing the climate data, in order to support systems development of RIMES.
Contract Type: Short Term Contract
Duty station: RIMES Office, Outreach Building, AIT Campus, Khlong Laung, Pathum Thani
Skills and Qualifications:
Knowledge:
- Basic knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Unix-like).
- Basic knowledge of data structure
- Basic knowledge of statistics.
- Basic knowledge of programming concept
- Basic knowledge of documentation
Experience:
- Current or fresh graduate students are welcome
- Skills and abilities:
- Able to work in Linux CLI environment.
- Basic python programming skill.
- Documentation and record-keeping abilities.
- Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical users.
Personal qualities:
- Flexibility in adapting to new technologies, changing environments, and unexpected challenges.
- Strong collaborative skills and the ability to work well with others.
- Ability to contribute effectively to team projects and initiatives.
- Creativity in developing innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Efficient in managing time and prioritizing tasks to meet deadlines.
Language:
- Basic English
Scope of Work
The Data Processing Specialist will have the following specific tasks:
- Programming: Develop scripts for updating, monitoring, and processing climate data.
- Management: Placing the climate datasets, make sure the data is in the correct category folders and locations.
- Daily routine: Monitor and record the daily/monthly data update.
- Daily routine: Check the quality of daily and monthly updated data.
- Daily routine: Process the newly updated data in RIMES standard.
- Daily routine: Monitor and record the status of data servers (twice per day).
- Daily routine: Check duplicate data in data servers.
- Project Support: Process data based on the requirements of the projects or developers
- Project Support: Support system developer to optimize the data processing chain for faster data processing speed.
- Documentation: Update and maintain the <RIMES Data Inventory>
- Daily report: Data update, Quality of new data, Status of data server
RIMES promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Well-qualified applicants particularly women are encouraged to apply.