Job title: Data Acquisition Coordinator
Reports to: Director of Data Management
Start date: December 8, 2025
Starting salary: $66,244-82,807
Location: In person, Halifax, NS
The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) is an international marine and freshwater monitoring platform that focuses on tracking the movements of aquatic animals in the context of a changing global environment. Established in 2008, OTN is one of 19 National Research Facilities supported by the Major Science Initiatives (MSI) funding program of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
POSITION SUMMARY:
Reporting to the Director of Data Management, the Data Acquisition Coordinator (DAC) is responsible for the coordination and collection of data from OTN researchers and partner networks. This position ensures the smooth and efficient acquisition, quality control, and continued flow of data into the care of OTN. This is an outward facing position that regularly interacts and collaborates with scientists and professionals across all sectors (academia, government, industry, NGO), and parts of the world.
This position is based in Halifax and travels within Canada and internationally 2-3 times per year. Occasionally, work hours will fluctuate to maintain connectivity with partners across time zones.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead and coordinate all aspects of data acquisition, including liaising with collaborators to acquire data and metadata in a timely fashion and in accordance with the OTN and partner’s data policies, perform data processing, loading and quality control of telemetry data to the data system, resolve data issues and deficiencies, and collaborate with OTN database developers to inform and design new features to improve processes.
- Guide partners with implementation and revision of their data management plans to ensure ongoing compliance with OTN and partner data quality procedures and data policies.
- Collaborate with project partners and data providers to design, implement, and refine data pipelines and data quality procedures
- Inform and support the design of data products to advance novel ways of interpreting and visualizing data to inform data analysis and decision making.
- Develop and implement data management workshop curricula and administer training to parties working with OTN’s network of networks, partners, and data contributors.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Undergraduate degree in informatics, oceanography, marine biology, or an equivalent technical degree, with a minimum of 3 years’ related experience.
- Strong understanding of bioinformatics data and terminology.
- Experience working with data in commonly used programming languages (R, Python), office software packages, and collaborative project management platforms (i.e., Asana, Monday.com)
- Demonstrated experience performing quality control measures on human-generated data.
- Excellent facilitation skills. Able to facilitate effective meetings, conduct training, and deliver technical workshops to a wide variety of learners.
- Excellent organizational skills with a high attention to detail.
- Excellent interpersonal skills. Able to communicate effectively in-person, virtually, digitally, and asynchronously.
- High level of professionalism and diplomacy.
- Experience working with relational database systems.
- Familiarity with animal telemetry data and equipment, acoustic receivers, or other oceanographic or biological data.
Assets:
- Experience with geospatial data.
- Experience with marine data collection.
- Fluency in French or Spanish.
TO APPLY:
Interested applicants should apply by November 20, via PeopleAdmin: https://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19821