As a junior data scientist, the day-to-day work may include:

• Working with clients to understand their needs: Understanding their current processes and pain points and identifying which of these can be framed as a tractable data science problem.
• Wrangling/cleaning government or client data: from extracting data from SQL databases and making API calls to scraping websites and cleaning survey data.
• Designing, testing, and improving various algorithms: From OOTB sci-kit-learn algorithms to bespoke ones.
• Synthesising, visualizing, and communicating results: Dashboards, plots, interactive viz, presentations and reports
• Working with other team members to test and deploy these solutions.

• Proficiency in understanding and coding standard supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms and components of the data science pipeline - data cleaning, feature selection, cross-validation, parameter tuning, etc.
• Sound foundations in statistics and probability.
• Working knowledge of SQL

Locations
This position is located in one of IDinsight’s existing offices, with the possibility of extensive travel dependent on project needs. The most likely offices for this position are New Delhi, India, and  Nairobi, Kenya. Preference will be given to those with pre-existing work authorization in these countries; however, IDinsight will seek work permits where possible for exceptional candidates.

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we are currently “working from home” globally. As such, successful candidates would be expected to work from home until it is possible to safely and responsibly work from an IDinsight office.

Compensation
Compensation is commensurate with relevant experience and background and is competitive within the social sector. Please note that, as a non-profit, we are unable to provide compensation similar to leading technology firms.

Start Dates
The start date of this position is flexible, although there is the potential to start almost immediately. We expect a minimum one-year commitment, with regular professional development conversations and potential for a long-term career at IDinsight.

References
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