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Senior Data Scientist

You will be joining:

• A young, dynamic team working on a new WDL project on Tunisia and other African countries in cooperation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
• You and the team will build a real-time big data model to support program- and policy-making in a development context.
• You will collaborate with local stakeholders and external clients
• Take part in building new functionality from the ground up and join a growing team!

Our Requirements:

• 5-7 years of experience in manipulating data and building statistical models
• Fluency in English and French
• Excellent programming experience in R or Python
• Background in Economics
• Experience in manipulating data and drawing insights from large datasets. Knowledge of advanced statistical concepts and techniques (Bayesian model averaging, random forests, etc.)
• Passion for clean code and focus on simplicity
• Ability to work in a fast-paced start-up environment
• Be open to learning something new each day

Additional skills:

• Background in Labor Economics
• Expertise with neural networks
• Working experience in Tunisia
• Experience with GitHub and RMarkdown


Organisational setting and salary:

• We are located at beautiful Impact Hub in 1070 Vienna
• Flexibility to work remotely
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Competitive salary based on qualification and experience
• Great degree of independence and autonomy

Our mission is big: make everyone count!

But not just via technology Data and processes, we also believe that people are a critical piece of the equation. If you’re ready to work with our lively diverse team, send us your CV and a brief cover letter - either in the body of the email or as a separate document - in English to recruiting@worlddata.io.

At World Data Lab we always have exciting new projects coming in not only for our corporate side but also for our NGO side.