Policy Data Scientist: AI & Analytics for Public Impact

ICF; Madrid; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a data science professional to deliver data science and AI solutions across client projects in the UK and EU. You will work with subject matter experts to frame questions, analyse evidence and deliver findings, while discussing needs, approaches and results with both technical and nontechnical audiences.

You will join an established data science team, contribute to proposals, and take ownership of components from discovery to delivery, applying Python, ML and statistical methods

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in Python for analysis and modelling, including data libraries.
• Solid grounding in statistics and machine learning, including regression/classification and validation.

Responsibilities

• Speak with subject matter experts and clients to define the problem, success measures, data needs and an appropriate analytical approach.
• Prepare and analyse data, develop and evaluate models or prototypes using statistical methods, forecasting, machine learning or language models where suitable.
• Present findings, assumptions and limitations to subject matter experts, clients and nontechnical audiences, invite challenge and adapt the work to their feedback.
• Collaborate with colleagues across different technical disciplines to document work, make results reproducible and develop promising prototypes into reliable solutions.
• Contribute technical ideas, estimates and evidence to proposals, and manage your work across several concurrent projects.
• Share methods and reusable approaches with colleagues across the data science team.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistics

Machine Learning

Language Models

Data Wrangling

Version Control

Testing

Stakeholder Communication

Independent Work

Education

Bachelor's or higher in a quantitative field

Job description

ICF is seeking a data science professional to deliver data science and AI solutions across client projects in the UK and EU. You will work with subject matter experts to frame questions, analyse evidence and deliver findings, while discussing needs, approaches and results with both technical and nontechnical audiences.

You will join an established data science team, contribute to proposals, and take ownership of components from discovery to delivery, applying Python, ML and statistical methods