Management Services - Data Scientist

Are you passionate about driving forward data-centric projects that apply the latest in data science, using data visualization to convey information? Are you interested in further developing your professional experience as a Data Scientist while contributing to ending global hunger?

If yes, this is a great opportunity for you to become an integral member of a diverse and passionate team that works on varied and international projects directly supporting field operations. This is a home-based, Consultancy position - with the opportunity for travel as required.

About WFP

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. With more than 18,000 colleagues worldwide, WFP works to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Management Services Division

The Management Services Division and the Administration functional area is a community of over 3,000 team members, worldwide – ranging in specialized workstreams managing Assets, Travel, Fleet, Facilities, Environmental Sustainability, and more! The Administration functional area prides itself on providing quality customer service while ensuring that WFP operations reach its beneficiaries, smoothly, even in the toughest conditions. We are seeking a Data Scientist to be home-based to receive, store, process, and, analyse data to promote accountability, controls, and efficiencies, resulting in stronger services. The Data Scientist will streamline digital analysis for the division and function, receiving and maintaining large amounts of varied and unstructured data, processing and generating meaningful data analysis, while upholding data privacy and security standards. You will work closely with teams of specialized service providers and our field-based end-users as well as other teams to understand the organization's needs and develop requirements and specifications for data-related solutions.

This Data Scientist Consultant will be under the supervision of the Director, Management Services Division.

About the role!

• Partnering with a diverse range of stakeholders to extract impactful insight from our existing data, while finding opportunities to track other sources
• Provide consultation and guidance to non-technical audiences and develop and implement guidance on integrating advanced data and analysis in routine decision-making processes
• Building dashboards and reports that provide visibility into how WFP uses the services of the Management Division
• Identifying, examining, and analyzing raw data to identify trends and assessments to aggregate disparate information required for reporting and analytics
• Researching corporate and satellite data sources and identify corrections to existing data, as needed
• Designing and analyzing experiments to answer key business questions
• Building data pipelines and models that enable incisive analyses and performant data visualizations
• Respond to a variety of data-related queries to ensure that solutions are provided, and information is provided and presented accurately, and efficiently

About you!

• Experience (at least 5 years) working with large data sets and summarizing data for business (data collection, management, cleaning, processing, and applied analysis)
• Familiarity with data warehousing and business intelligence concepts
• Big data storing and retrieving skills on cloud platforms
• Experience using visualization tools (preferably Tableau) and setting up dashboards
• Ability to capture requirements and translate into insights
• Strategic sense and proven experience in regular reporting and synthesizing emerging information
• Advanced SQL skills
• Strong knowledge of Python and/or R
• Statistical modeling/Machine learning
• Strong ability to craft analysis independently
• Experience communicating work to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to communicate with a diverse set of senior management and stakeholders
• Ability to work flexibly, creatively, and to multitask as required; reprioritizing as required
• Mature judgment
• Experience in working in a multicultural environment
• Great communication, presentation, and collaboration skills
• Perform other duties, as requested (including occasional travel)

Qualifications & Key Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline, such as science, technology, engineering, statistics, economics is required. A Master’s degree in one of these disciplines is highly desirable

Language:

Fluency (level C) in English – written, spoken, and oral comprehension.

CLOSING DATE: 10 January 2021

Women and candidates from developing countries are encouraged to apply!

We look for applicants with the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian values. We commit to promote diversity, gender parit,y and equality between men and women.

WFP strives to build a work environment that is safe and supportive, and free of sexual harassment and abuse of authority. We believe in open communication, and every individual at WFP is treated with respect regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, religious and political beliefs, etc.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.