The Data Scientist will play a key role in developing and deploying innovative, data-driven marketing solutions that drive strategic business outcomes. This is a max term contract role based at our East Burwood office until May 2025.
Collaborating closely with stakeholders, this role involves identifying and translating business requirements into actionable data products, such as predictive models, churn analysis, RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) analysis, and propensity modelling.
Your role plays an integral part in the organisation, enabling us to support our mission of empowering Australians to create meaningful change for the world’s most vulnerable children and adults.
Your responsibilities will include:
- In addition to developing new solutions, the Data Scientist is responsible for continuously monitoring, reviewing, and enhancing existing advanced analytics products to ensure they remain effective and aligned with evolving business needs.
- A typical day in this role includes designing, operationalising, and optimising advanced analytics models, segmentation strategies, and automated marketing personalisation journeys, all with the goal of enhancing the supporter experience and maximising organisational value.
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand their requirements, objectives, and challenges. Collaborate to define the scope and goals of potential models, ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Analyse large amounts of data to extract meaningful patterns, trends, and insights. Use statistical methods and data mining techniques to uncover hidden relationships within the data.
- Deliver insights that inform strategic business decisions, optimise processes, and identify new opportunities. The analysis should be actionable, with clear implications for business strategy.
Who we’re looking for:
As the successful applicant, you will have a breadth of capabilities including enthusiasm, creativity and outstanding interpersonal skills.
In addition, you will have:
- Strong experience working with Azure ML is a must
- Previous experience working as a Data Scientist
- Robust skills in collaborating with and influencing diverse stakeholders by translating complex business challenges into data-driven solutions, leveraging strong analytical skills to interpret results and drive actionable insights.
- Experience with AI tools and techniques would be desirable, however not essential
- Advanced knowledge of programming languages like Python, R, or SQL for data manipulation, analysis, and implementation of machine learning algorithms.
- Tertiary qualifications in Data Science, Analytics, Mathematics or similar.
If you have a growth mindset, are a genuine team player with a can-do attitude, we want to hear from you!
Working for World Vision means you are making the world better
It’s not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you are about to do something meaningful. It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward.
The selection process
We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families. World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector.
Who we are
World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work.
We offer great benefits such as salary packaging, leave loading, flexible working arrangements, free on-site secure parking, an onsite gym and café for our employees.
For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us
World Vision Australia is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation that is dedicated to transforming the lives of children and communities by tackling the causes of poverty. We are dedicated to increasing opportunities for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in line with our Reconciliation Action Plan
