Strategic Data Scientist for Policy & Impact

Nous Group; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Nous Group is seeking a Data Scientist to help leaders solve complex strategic challenges across sectors in Australia. You will work with analysts, economists and policy specialists to translate data into actionable insights that influence policy, strategy and investment decisions.

You will apply rigorous quantitative methods, build reproducible analytical products and develop tools and dashboards to support decision making for government and private sector clients.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in R or Python with statistical methods.
• Experience applying econometric or quantitative techniques to policy or operational problems.
• Ability to translate quantitative findings for non-technical audiences.
• Experience developing interactive analytics apps (R Shiny, Flask, Streamlit).
• Familiarity with SQL and relational databases.
• Ability to work in ambiguous, complex stakeholder environments.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to evaluations, reviews, pricing and funding models for clients.
• Design and conduct quantitative analysis to answer policy and strategy questions.
• Prepare and analyse large multi-source datasets.
• Develop reproducible code and analytical workflows in R.
• Build visualisations and dashboards to support decision making.
• Translate findings into accessible insights for non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to proposals, methodologies and project approaches.
• Collaborate with consulting teams and client stakeholders.
• Support QA through testing, peer review and documentation.
• Help develop Nous intellectual property and reusable analytics tools.

Skills

R programming

Python

Data visualization

Econometrics

Shiny/Streamlit

SQL

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science

Bachelor's degree in Statistics

Tools

R Shiny

Flask

Streamlit

Azure DevOps

GitHub

SQL

Job description

Nous Group is seeking a Data Scientist to help leaders solve complex strategic challenges across sectors in Australia. You will work with analysts, economists and policy specialists to translate data into actionable insights that influence policy, strategy and investment decisions.

You will apply rigorous quantitative methods, build reproducible analytical products and develop tools and dashboards to support decision making for government and private sector clients.