Data Steward Job Description

We hope you will consider joining this great team. Here is what is involved.

Generally, a data steward would be responsible for ensuring accurate readings and data are being recorded/documented. Data stewards would become members of the Floodzilla team, attend monthly meetings, keep up with flood events, and monitor data (especially immediately preceding and during a flood event).

Duties include:

1. Preseason: Ensure all gages are online and data readings are not picking up vegetation or other interference.
2. During flood season: Monitor readings. Refer to SOP manual for remote and site-based diagnostic tools. Coordinate with SVPA staff or site stewards in the event that debris needs to be cleaned off gage.
3. Preparing for individual flood events¹: Typically floods are forecasted 10 days out. At that time, a Data Steward should check the readings, diagnose any problems, and delete any bad readings.
4. During flood events/troubleshooting sensor & transmitter (as appropriate, limited based on safety): Share Floodzilla with community (reminder!), monitor readings every few hours (during waking hours), mark gages off-line if bad readings that cannot be fixed during flood event (accessibility).

1. Data Stewards should notify another team member if unavailable to complete these tasks during a flood event so that the duties can be reassigned.