Data Science Secondments

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom Nesta Full time

**We are offering secondment opportunities to join Nesta as a Data Scientist on a 3-9 month basis.**

**About Nesta**

We are Nesta, the UK’s innovation agency for social good. We design, test and scale solutions to society’s biggest problems. Our three missions are to give every child a fair start, help peoplae live healthy lives, and create a sustainable future where the economy works for both people and the planet.

For over 20 years, we have worked to support, encourage and inspire innovation. We work in three roles: as an innovation partner working with frontline organisations to design and test new solutions, as a venture builder supporting new and early stage businesses, and as a system shaper creating the conditions for innovation.

Harnessing the rigour of science and the creativity of design, we work relentlessly to change millions of lives for the better.

**The role**

**The team**

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. As a data scientist in our team, you will work across domain areas (for example Nesta’s mission areas, which cover net zero, health and education) and deliver a mixture of short and long-term projects of varying complexity. Nesta’s data science team works as a ‘practice’, delivering across the breadth of Nesta’s work, whilst acting as a home for data scientists and engineers to develop technical competence in a supportive environment of like minded and skilled people.

**The person**

**In this role you will**:

- Lead and deliver data-driven projects that advance Nesta’s missions, ranging from research and analysis to model development;
- Design, scope and deliver projects with technical colleagues, domain experts and practitioners from other disciplines;
- Communicate the outputs of your work in a structured way (including written outputs like reports) to a wide range of internal and external audiences;
- 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;
- Alongside specialists in the Data Science Practice, ensure that all work takes advantage of data science to be reproducible, sustainable, and ethically considered.

**Skills and Qualifications**
- A Bachelor or Masters qualification in a relevant quantitative discipline plus one or more years of relevant experience in academia, industry or public/third sector

Or
- At three years of relevant experience in academia, industry or public/third sector

**Plus**
- Strong experience programming in Python;
- Experience using Git and GitHub (or equivalent) for version control;
- 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;
- Abie to design data science approaches that will solve problems and answer questions;
- Strong 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;
- Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, with evidence of clear and structured written outputs such as blogs, reports or papers;
- Experience delivering data science or analytics projects at pace.

**Desirable**
- Domain knowledge in a field relevant to ones of Nesta’s mission.
- Experience of data engineering methods such as scalable data collection (e.g. APIs, web-scraping), data pipeline technologies (e.g. Airflow, Luigi, Metaflow) or database management systems (SQL or NoSQL);
**What we offer**

**Salary**: To be discussed depending on secondment arrangements.

**Location**: This role will be based in one of our offices (London, Cardiff, Edinburgh). We follow a hybrid working arrangement with a minimum of two days in the office.

**Term**: 3-9 months

**Hours**: This is a full-time role but we offer a range of flexible working arrangements and encourage our people to take advantage of them. Many do.

**Reports to**: Head of Data Science

Please note that interviews will take place on a rolling basis until the posts are filled.

At Nesta, we believe that a diverse workforce leads to an organisation that is more innovative, more creative and gets better results.

We want our workforce to represent the diversity of the people and communities we serve. We also want our workplace to be one where different experiences, expertise and perspectives are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to grow and develop.

We recognise the importance of a good balance between work and home life, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including working from home, compressed or part-time hours and other arrangements.

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