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Data Extraction Specialist NGO Job ACLED
Data Extraction Specialist NGO Job
Specific tasks and responsibilities
The Data Extraction Specialist will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Develop bespoke web scrapers and general web crawlers to extract data from online news sources.
- Deploy and monitor the performance of scrapers and crawlers to ensure reliable and continuous data acquisition.
- Implement logging and alerting systems for scraper performance and failures.
- Maintain and troubleshoot existing scrapers and crawlers, adapting them to changes in website structures and data formats.
- Deploy models and monitor ML/NLP models for filtering and classifying extracted news articles.
- Develop and deploy scalable data engineering pipelines using cloud platforms (preferably AWS), Docker, or serverless technologies.
- Ensure all developed scrapers and crawlers adhere to best practices for web scraping, including ethical considerations and respect for website terms of service.
- Document all configurations, assumptions, and limitations to ensure consistency and transparency.
- Collaborate with other teams at ACLED to understand data needs and align scraper strategy with broader organizational goals.
Skills and competencies
Required
- Proven experience in developing and deploying web scrapers and crawlers for production use.
- Proven experience developing language models for practical applications.
- Strong proficiency in Python and JavaScript.
- Experience with major web scraping frameworks and libraries (Scrapy, Beautiful Soup, Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, etc.).
- Experience deploying machine learning models, including transformers-based NLP models, for processing source texts.
- Experience with data engineering tools and frameworks (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, Databricks).
- Understanding of ethical and legal considerations in web scraping, including compliance with robots.txt and terms of service.
- Experience working to deadlines with limited supervision.
- An extremely high level of attention to detail.
- Flexible team player, especially across a remote, global team.
- Fluency in English.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
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