Data Scientist, Analytics & Insights position at World Vision Canada, seeking a candidate with 3-5 years of advanced analytics experience, Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics or computer science, and expertise in statistical techniques, machine learning, and big data analytics. The role involves discovering insights, optimizing experiences, and guiding business decisions using statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques.
Requirements
- Consults with business partners and identifies appropriate research approach/design to address the business problem at hand.
- Provides in-depth customer analysis and insight, helping to guide and inform decisions to optimize marketing initiatives, research customer personas, segments, and journeys, and highlighting trends as necessary.
- Mines internal and external data to develop research results that emphasizes actionable recommendations and insights to support business decisions and marketing optimization.
- Extracts and validates structured and unstructured data from various sources, proactively identifying new data sources to integrate into data analytics models.
- Manipulates large data sets from multiple sources, performing big data analytics where possible to understand emerging trends, patterns, or insights through the use of statistical analysis.
- Creates predictive models that inform key business decisions and executes models from design through to deployment, ensuring accuracy of data and that models are viable, repeatable, and scalable; reports on model results once applied.
- Educates the organization on advanced analytics approaches and techniques used, such as testing hypotheses and predictive modelling, helping the organization understand the principles and the underlying logic behind the process.
- Leads model governance planning and execution process.
- Takes initiative to find better methodologies and approaches to produce accurate, timely and actionable insights for WVC internal stakeholders and donor audiences.
- Develops clear and comprehensive presentations of analytics results that emphasizes actionable recommendations and insights to support the development of new strategies and tactics.
Benefits
- Health Spending Account
- Up to 6% matched pension contributions
- Parental leave top-up
- Generous paid vacation, sick days, wellness and personal days
- Office closed extra days before long weekends (6x/year)
