Data Scientist

We are a team of analytical and technical experts from a range of backgrounds bound by the drive to use our expertise to have social impact.A strong candidate for this role will be interested in putting their analytical and data science skills to work to achieve impact in the public sector or industry.The successful candidate will have the ability to exercise significant range in the techniques they choose to deploy and the ability to select the appropriate methods for the task at hand. They will be used to working flexibly and quickly learning and adapting to new domain and project contexts. Critically this role requires strong project delivery skills the ability to get projects off the ground quickly and deliver them to a high standard while working collaboratively with other members across the team and wider organisation.

As a Data Scientist at Nesta you will:

• Deliver datadriven projects that advance Nestas missions ranging from research and analysis to model development;
• Design and scope projects in collaboration with technical colleagues domain experts and practitioners from other disciplines;
• Communicate outputs of your work to a wide range of internal and external audiences;
• Alongside specialists in the Data Science Practice
• ensure that all work takes advantage of data science to be reproducible sustainable and ethically considered
• help the team stay at the cutting edge by keeping abreast of new techniques and developments in the field and seeking ways to use them;

Skills and Qualifications
A Bachelor or Masters qualification in a relevant quantitative discipline and relevant experience in academia industry or public/third sectorOrAt least three years of relevant experience in academia industry or public/third sector
Plus

• Experience programming in Python
• Experience using data and evidence to drive better outcomes or business improvement;
• Strong data analysis skills which might include machine learning statistical methods causal inference or other techniques;
• Willingness to be an active team member who collaborates with others and contributes to strengthening team connections;
• Ability to design data science approaches that will solve problems and answer questions;
• Ability to communicate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders with evidence of clear and structured written outputs such as blogs reports or papers;
• Experience using Git and GitHub (or equivalent) for version control.

Desirable

• Domain knowledge in a field relevant to ones of Nestas mission.
• Proven project management experience including the ability to lead projects and make decisions and prioritise tasks to keep projects on track and ensure outputs are of a high quality;
• Experience delivering data science or analytics projects at pace;
• Experience communicating findings with a range of stakeholders;
• A degree of experience of data engineering methods such as scalable data collection (e.g. APIs webscraping) data pipeline technologies (e.g. Airflow Luigi Metaflow) or database management systems (SQL or NoSQL);
• Experience programming in R;
• Line management or mentorship experience

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