Website Quest Alliance

Data Scientist

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka

At Quest Alliance we transform learning ecosystems through education technology, capacity building, and collaboration to build 21st-century skills for learners and facilitators.

We are a not-for-proﬁt trust that focuses on research-led innovation and advocacy in the ﬁeld of teaching and learning. We engage with educators, civil society, government institutions and corporate organizations to demonstrate and enable scalable and replicable solutions in school education and vocational training.

At Quest Alliance, you will get the opportunity to apply your skills and contribute to addressing issues around quality education and skills training. The organization gives you the space to learn and grow in a fun and engaging environment. We have an eclectic group of people working at Quest drawn from diverse disciplines including Education, Technology, Design, Youth Development, and Business.

About the role:

This role straddles the Product/Platform and Data/Analytics areas and has three key elements:

E Learning Platform: Design, build and continuously improve a recommendation engine that personalized lesson dissemination to learners on the basis of their interests, career goals, and current level of understanding. Design, build and continuously improve the data flow, systems, process and database, data tables and their interaction with the Data warehouse – where this data resides with other data collected offline or through the Quest App.
Data Modelling & Analysis: Look at data collected from various sources – field, tech based interventions, app, primary research, secondary/syndicated research and macro data published by the government and other agencies, and model it to identify trends, patterns, efficiency and effectiveness of different interventions, as well as predict and reconcile outcomes with a view to measure and correlate outputs, outcomes and impact.
Communication: Prepare reports and conduct sessions to simplify and summarize these learnings and make them part of organizational knowledge and understanding and help people in the wider organization use this information to make better, data driven decisions, plans and execution roadmaps.

Requirements

Bachelors or Masters degree in Data Science, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Computer Science or related fields
8-10 years’ experience in Data Science from both a technology/programming as well as data/analysis lens
Prior experience in Data Modelling, Prediction, Forecasting and analysis using both Statistical and Machine Learning techniques
Prior experience in programming using ‘R’, ‘Python’, Java and other programming languages and performing data cleaning, manipulation, summary, analyses and automation
Prior experience of building, modifying and coding artificial intelligence and logic based algorithms that drive recommendation engines for personalization including user feedback
Ability to understand business context and need, convert it into technical requirements, build solutions that cater to them and then drive usage, adoption and continuous improvement through cross – functional virtual teams
Willingness and Ability to work across a large, diverse team and multiple stakeholders with different needs and points of view
Passion for making data, analysis, technology and tools accessible to people without formal training or background in these disciplines
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Comfort with use of Powerpoint, Word, Excel and other presentation tools

We are looking for people who:

Are passionate about working to solve challenges in the education and employability domain
Candidate should be flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and an energetic team player

To apply for this job please visit questalliance.zohorecruit.com.