Dear colleagues,


The Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI)<https://pdri.upenn.edu/> at the University of Pennsylvania is hiring a (senior) data scientist to work with us on data-driven projects in low- and middle-income country settings.


We are open to both junior candidates (recent BA/MA grads with strong technical skills) or more senior candidates (e.g., with a PhD).


We would appreciate it if you shared this posting with interested audiences! We will begin reviewing applications soon.


Link to posting: bit.ly/3zi5LB2<https://bit.ly/3zi5LB2>



Best,

Dario Sidhu

Director of Research, PDRI


Job profile:


The Data Scientist will work on data-driven PDRI projects through the application of advanced data science tools. The Data Scientist will be responsible for several distinct data-intensive tasks. For one, this includes collecting data using a variety of data extraction tools (e.g., web-scraping, API usage, data mining), to retrieve data ranging from structured to highly unstructured data for research projects. It also includes data wrangling and management tasks (e.g., data cleaning and manipulation, including merging, transforming, and labeling data, training and predicting data, using machine learning approaches for classification tasks). The Data Scientist will also be responsible for data visualization (creating figures, tables, maps, and infographics for academic papers) and data analysis tasks (including geo-spatial analysis, natural language processing (NLP), and statistical analysis). The Data Scientist may also work on survey programming using tools including Qualtrics and Survey-to-Go.


A Senior Data Scientist would additionally develop new research tools, serve as co-PI on data science projects, and provide advanced technical advice and coaching on data science applications to junior data scientists and other researchers across PDRI and Penn.


This is an exciting position for an exceptional candidate to contribute to cutting edge data science research in a fast-paced and fast-growing research initiative. The selected candidate will become part of the UPenn international development and data science communities, and will have significant scope to help shape the practice of data science at PDRI and UPenn.


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