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Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is part of the nation’s central bank, and we’ve provided many opportunities for professional growth during our history.

For twenty-five years in a row, we’ve been named “One of Northeast Ohio’s Best Places to Work” by North Coast 99. This prestigious award honors organizations with outstanding employment practices, including compensation, benefits, training, recruitment, retention, community services, and employee communications.

Our People Make the Difference! The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is seeking innovative thinkers with vision to build the framework that will carry the Bank into the future.

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An exciting opportunity exists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (FRBC) to work on a team responsible for ensuring researchers in the Research and Community Development departments have the necessary data and other information resources for their academic scholarship and policy analysis.

Essential Accountabilities

• Provide data reference services including answering researchers’ questions, data cataloging, updating and maintaining documentation, and communicating with data providers.

• Provide data management services to researchers, including offering support for using and managing data in compliance with license terms, internal information security requirements, and data management policies and best practices.

• Deliver outreach and training opportunities to educate researchers about data management practices.

• Actively manage data on premises and in the cloud, including access control, process documentation, troubleshooting data automation processes, and data archiving.

• Develop and maintain an understanding of how local IT infrastructure and Bank and System policies impact access to data resources and collaborate on solutions that improve researchers’ productivity while maintaining adherence to policy and contractual constraints.

• Represent researchers’ needs in negotiation of data contracts with third parties.

• Establish dynamic, collaborative networks and relationships with researchers and with staff in other Reserve Banks, participating in Federal Reserve System committees and initiatives.

• Pursue professional development opportunities to increase personal knowledge and skills to improve services and integrate best practices.

• Adhere to the Bank’s attendance policies through regular and prompt attendance.

• Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in Library/Information Science or a related degree.

Knowledge and Skills Areas

• Experience with scripting languages and/or tools for data manipulation (e.g. Python, SQL, R, Stata).

• Experience/strong familiarity with economics-, banking-, and finance-related concepts, datasets, and other information.

• Ability to identify and manage potential risks by elevating concerns and leveraging effective relationships with colleagues.

• Excellent analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently.

• Ability to prioritize multiple projects and track workflow efficiently. Strong multi-tasker.

• Facility with Microsoft Office suite, especially Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement - The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to clev.4d.benefits.specialist@clev.frb.org.

Bank’s Ethics Rules and Drug Testing:

As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank’s ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting.

In addition, as a condition of employment, candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana, prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.

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Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Communications/Public Relations

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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