[Remote] Data Entry Specialist
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. State Affairs is the nation’s leading news and policy intelligence platform focused on state governments. They are hiring a Data Entry Specialist who will be responsible for entering and updating legislative data, ensuring data accuracy, and maintaining schedules related to governmental activities.
Responsibilities
- Enter and update bill information, including bill actions, amendments, sponsors, summaries, and status changes
- Ensure bill action histories are complete, properly sequenced, and aligned with official legislative sources
- Maintain accurate committee and floor session schedules, including dates, times, agendas, documents, and locations
- Enter and verify vote roll calls, including committee votes and chamber votes
- Enter and update broader governmental and political calendar information, including: Fundraisers, Press conferences and media events, Government meetings, Public policy events, Stakeholder or advocacy events
- Monitor multiple official and external sources daily to ensure calendar data remains complete and up-to-date
- Conduct regular audits to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency across states
- Correct discrepancies and omissions flagged by the Director of Legislative Data & Insights or data/operations staff
- Follow State Affairs’ data standards, taxonomy, and naming conventions
- Enter and maintain administrative rules, notices of rulemaking, and related state agency data
- Support new feature rollouts and special data projects across the State Affairs platform
Skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to learn and follow detailed workflows, data standards, and state-specific legislative terminology
- Ability to work in fast-paced environments with rapid updates during legislative sessions
- Ability to identify reliable sources and follow verification protocols
- Organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and states concurrently
- Communication skills
- Prior professional work experience working in a CMS, database, or spreadsheet-based data entry environment
- Prior professional work experience in fast-paced data entry operations
- Prior professional work experience in government, politics, journalism, research, or policy analysis
- Prior professional work experience with legislative tracking systems or bill data entry
- Knowledge of legislative processes, bill lifecycles, and committee structures
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package
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