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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Specialist - **Company:** County of Harris - **Location:** Houston, TX, United States - **Experience:** Starter - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Spreadsheets, Databases, Data Deduplication, Web Scraping, Data Integrity, Data Normalization, Data Visualization, Relational Databases, Database Schema, R (Programming Language), Information Sciences, Python (Programming Language), Online Databases, Parsing, Power BI, SQL Databases, Stata, Tableau (Software), Information Technology - **Published:** August 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c85f1120-3551-442d-a19e-3de3d8281420 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in data science, computer science, statistics, information science, public policy, sociology, criminology, criminal justice, journalism, public administration, or a related field. * At least two (2) years of experience working with databases, spreadsheets, public records, research data, or other structured datasets. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: * Interest in using data to support public defense, law enforcement accountability, racial justice, or criminal legal system reform. * Strong attention to detail and ability to work with large, complex, and inconsistent datasets. * Ability to conduct factual research using public records, court records, online databases, and internal records. * Ability to work carefully with confidential and sensitive information. * Strong written and verbal communication skills., * High School or GED diploma * Associates Degree * Bachelor's Degree * Master's Degree or higher * None of the above 02 If you selected a college degree in response to the previous question, which of the following best describes your major? * Data science * Computer science * Statistics * Information science * Public policy * Sociology * Criminology * Criminal justice * Journalism * Public administration * Other Related Field * Unrelated Field * N/A; No Degree 03 Which of the following best describes your verifiable years of experience working with databases, spreadsheets, public records, research data, or other structured datasets?(To be considered, qualifying experience must be documented in your application's employment history) * Less than two (2) years * Two (2) years but less than three (3) years * Three (3) years but less than four (4) years * Four (4) years or more * I do not have this experience. ## Description The Harris County Public Defender's Office seeks a full-time Data Specialist to help build and maintain the office's law enforcement accountability database through Techtivist. This is a data-focused position requiring strong skills in data collection, organization, quality control, and analysis. The Data Specialist will work with complex records and bulk data related to law enforcement accountability. This position is responsible for transforming large, inconsistent, and often fragmented sources of information into accurate, structured, and searchable data. This work is critical to supporting attorneys, investigators, and policy staff in identifying officer credibility issues, patterns of misconduct, impeachment information, and other data that assists in client representation and broader efforts to improve the criminal legal system., * Maintain and update the office's Techtivist database. * Collect, clean, structure, and validate data from public records, court records, civil lawsuits, agency rosters, disciplinary records, attorney submissions, case materials, and online sources. * Work with spreadsheets, databases, PDFs, scanned records, and other structured and unstructured data sources. * Extract and parse information from documents using OCR, PDF extraction, and other data-processing tools. * Identify and resolve duplicate records, inconsistent officer names, missing identifiers, conflicting information, and other data-quality issues. * Link records across datasets, including rosters, lawsuits, complaints, disciplinary records, Brady disclosures, and case-related information. * Write or run scripts, when appropriate, to clean, transform, match, or import data into usable formats. * Assist with database structure, data-entry protocols, source tracking, confidentiality designations, and quality-control workflows. * Prepare, track, and organize public information requests for law enforcement rosters, command structures, policies, misconduct records, and related data. * Query data and prepare reports, spreadsheets, summaries, visualizations, and other work products for attorneys and staff. * Protect confidential, privileged, sealed, or otherwise sensitive information. * Assist with user support, troubleshooting, documentation, and other Techtivist-related tasks. * Perform other tasks as assigned., * Python, R, SQL, Stata, Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools. * Data normalization, records linkage, fuzzy matching, probabilistic matching, or deduplication. * OCR, PDF extraction, web scraping, text parsing, or document automation. * Relational databases, data schemas, database imports, or data integrity protocols. * Creating reports, dashboards, data visualizations, or other tools for non-technical users. * Public records, criminal defense, civil rights litigation, Brady/Giglio issues, law enforcement data, or court records. * A public defender office, legal services organization, civil rights organization, policy organization, newsroom, academic research setting, or government accountability project., Please indicate your relevant experience by selecting all applicable options from the list below.I have experience in: * Python, R, SQL, Stata, Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools. * Data normalization, records linkage, fuzzy matching, probabilistic matching, or deduplication. * OCR, PDF extraction, web scraping, text parsing, or document automation. * Relational databases, data schemas, database imports, or data integrity protocols. * Creating reports, dashboards, data visualizations, or other tools for non-technical users. * Public records, criminal defense, civil rights litigation, Brady/Giglio issues, law enforcement data, or court records. * A public defender office, legal services organization, civil rights organization, policy organization, newsroom, academic research setting, or government accountability project * I do not have this experience. ## Related Videos - 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