Summer Internship - Research - Data Capture Analyst Details

Summer Internship - Research - Data Capture Analyst

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Summer Internship - Research - Data Capture Analyst-266686Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Primary Location PA-Philadelphia Full-time / Part-time Part-time Employee Status Temporary Overtime Status Non-exempt Job Type Internship Travel No Shift Day Job Job Sensitivity Tier II - No Credit Check

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is one of the 12 regional Reserve Banks that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System. It helps formulate and implement monetary policy, supervises banks and bank and savings and loan holding companies, and provides financial services to depository institutions and the federal government. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia serves eastern and central Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is seeking a Sophomore, Junior or Senior level college student for a summer internship in the Bank's Research department. Students majoring in Economics, Urban Studies, Geography, History or Computer Science will be considered.
Duties and Responsibilities:The deliverable is the creation of a database of county-level vehicle registration data in the early 20th century. The historical material has been mostly collected and needs to be transformed into usable data using image processing and OCR software. Your task will be to perform data capture and clean and assemble the processed data into a complete data product, carefully documenting decisions along the way.
Required Skills:Comfortable with standard Windows programs, preferred experience with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software and database creation. Candidate should demonstrate strong attention to detail, organizational skills, initiative, and substantive communication skills in both written and oral. Flexible and able to effectively plan and manage one’s own time to work on multiple projects. Other Requirement:Background investigations including drug testing are required for all new hires as a condition of employment, after the job offer is made. Employment may not begin until the Bank accepts the results of the background investigation. Certain eligibility rules apply. Sitting at a computer for long periods of time. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is essential to our success as an organization, and we want to recruit, develop and retain the most accomplished people from a diverse candidate pool. To support a workplace culture of belonging, we offer seven employee resource groups (ERGs) and a 100 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equality Index. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.