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Description:
- Join GiveDirectly as a Senior Data Scientist to enhance location inference from Mobile Network Operator (MNO) data for cash distribution to people in poverty.
- Improve and extend analytical method templates, adapt them for different operators, and design new methods as needed.
Requirements:
- Strong mathematical modeling, machine learning, and statistics skills.
- Experience with spatio-temporal data and familiarity with Call Detail Records (CDRs) or similar data.
- Excellent communication skills to explain methodologies to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Commitment to privacy by design and confidentiality in handling sensitive data.
- Ability to travel internationally (25-50% of the time) for workshops and support.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary based on location (e.g., $107,070 in the US, ยฃ70,250 in the UK, $72,550 in Kenya).
- Bonus potential of 10% at target performance.
- Annual benefits stipend (e.g., $21,393 in the US).
- Fully remote position with a commitment to equitable pay.
Job title
Job type
Experience level
Required experience
3 years
Salary
$107,070 / year
Degree requirement
No degree requiredSkills
Location requirements
Cameroon
Canada
Colombia
Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
Germany
Ghana
Kenya
Malawi
Mozambique
Netherlands
Nigeria
Poland
Portugal
Rwanda
South Africa
Spain
Turkey
Uganda
United Kingdom
United States
Benefits
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