Job Opportunity in Italy: Data Scientist at WFP 2020

The World Food Programme (WFP) is looking for a qualified Data Scientist to join the team and work in Rome, Italy for 2021. 

Responsibilities:

1. Partnering with a diverse range of stakeholders to extract impactful insight from existing data, while finding opportunities to track other sources.
2. Provide consultation and guidance to non-technical audiences and develop and implement guidance on integrating advanced data and analysis in routine decision-making processes.
3. Building dashboards and reports that provide visibility into how WFP uses the services of the Management Division.
4. Identifying, examining, and analyzing raw data to identify trends and assessments to aggregate disparate information required for reporting and analytics.
5. Researching corporate and satellite data sources and identify corrections to existing data, as needed.
6. Designing and analyzing experiments to answer key business questions.
7. Building data pipelines and models that enable incisive analyses and performant data visualizations.
8. Respond to a variety of data-related queries to ensure that solutions are provided, and information is provided and presented accurately, and efficiently.

Qualifications:

1. A bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline, such as science, technology, engineering, statistics, economics is required. A Master’s degree in one of these disciplines is highly desirable.
2. Experience (at least 5 years) working with large data sets and summarizing data for business (data collection, management, cleaning, processing, and applied analysis).
3. Familiarity with data warehousing and business intelligence concepts.
4. Big data storing and retrieving skills on cloud platforms.
5. Experience using visualization tools (preferably Tableau) and setting up dashboards.
6. Ability to capture requirements and translate into insights.
7. Strategic sense and proven experience in regular reporting and synthesizing emerging information.
8. Advanced SQL skills.
9. Strong knowledge of Python and/or R.
10. Statistical modeling/Machine learning.
11. Strong ability to craft analysis independently.
12. Experience communicating work to both technical and non-technical audiences.
13. Ability to communicate with a diverse set of senior management and stakeholders.
14. Ability to work flexibly, creatively, and to multitask as required; reprioritizing as required.
15. Mature judgment.
16. Experience in working in a multicultural environment.
17. Great communication, presentation, and collaboration skills.
18. Perform other duties, as requested (including occasional travel).
19. Fluency (level C) in English – written, spoken, and oral comprehension.

About World Food Programme:

The World Food Program (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security. According to the WFP, it provides food assistance to an average of 91.4 million people in 83 countries each year. From its headquarters in Rome and from more than 80 country offices around the world, the WFP works to help people who cannot produce or obtain enough food for themselves and their families. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group and part of its executive committee.

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