Simprints
Overview
Simprints is a nonprofit tech company with a mission to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development. We build ethical, inclusive digital ID powered by biometrics to verify that health, aid, and services truly reach people. Simprints partners with organizations like Gavi to boost immunization rates in developing countries, Ministries of Health like Ghana on pandemic response, and NGOs like BRAC to deliver maternal healthcare. Studies have shown Simprints increases impact through real-time, precision data, for example increasing maternal health visits by 38% in Bangladesh or accurate HIV tracing by 62% in Malawi. Today we’ve worked in over 17 countries helping deliver health, aid, and finance to >2.5M people. Our goal is to transform the way the world fights poverty, ensuring that every vaccine, every dollar, and every public good reaches the people who need them most.
Role Overview
We’ve just raised new catalytic funding to scale our work. We are looking for a full-time Data Scientist to join our team. You will be leveraging a wealth of data from projects and management information systems to help improve the quality of life for vulnerable people around the world and enable data-driven decision making at Simprints.
This work will interface with every part of Simprints. You will be part of a passionate delivery team working together to solve some of the world’s most intractable problems. Solving real-world problems and shaping how data is used by Simprints and our partners, you will need to have a passion for revealing the real-life implications of data, and a commitment to collaborative problem solving, robust design, and quality product. Past solid experience with data science and the genuine desire to develop world-class skills are essential. Ability to use analytical, statistical, and programmable skills are essential.
Responsibilities include:
- Analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns, propose solutions and analytical strategies for improved project performance
- Create dashboards to communicate information clearly to our project partners
- Use various statistical analyses and tools to optimise thresholds and deduplication processes using biometric algorithms (e.g fingerprint and face recognition)
- Collaborate with other data scientist and engineering team to develop and maintain data models and company-wide dashboards
- Building out team data science capabilities by contributing to reviews and design decisions
What are the “must-have” skills and experience for this role?
- At least 5 years of professional experience with a scripting language (like Python or R), a relevant data analysis package (e.g. Pandas) and SQL
- Analytical mindset and ability to break down complex ideas into simple pieces
- Professional experience cleaning, exploring, and drawing insights from complex data pipelines
- Ability to communicate insights to a wide audience, e.g. through data visualisation platforms (e.g. LookerStudio, Tableau, Power BI)
- Professional experience with git and running analyses in the cloud (e.g. GCP, AWS,…)
- Strong math skills and experience running inferential/advance statistical analyses
- BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field; graduate degree in Data Science or other quantitative field is preferred
- Previous experience with biometric algorithms is a plus
Role details
Location: Remote position. We are currently only accepting applications from individuals based in the UK, France, Ghana, Ethiopia and Bangladesh
Salary: £45,000 – £65,000, dependent on experience with a cost-of-living adjustment for non-UK residents
Hiring manager: Delivery Chief Officer
What we value
- Integrity. You have an unwavering commitment to ‘confronting the grey’ in all areas of your work, and encourage transparency in all your interactions.
- Problem-solving. You understand the importance of rigorously detailed data, and have a strong ability to synthesise complex and potentially competing requirements, and convert them into recommendations that drive impact decisions.
- Curiosity. You have a desire to think innovatively and explore and understand how different perspectives and complex data blend together to create the bigger picture and context.
- Learning. You love learning new things, like to share what you learn, and can pick up new tools and methods quickly.
- Grit. You have a hands-on, can-do attitude and have the drive to dig deep into problems to discover pain points and features from multiple perspectives, and resilience to stay focused on a project to the end.
- Passion. If being part of a team that designs and deploys technology for global health sounds exciting, we want to meet you!
6 Reasons to join Simprints
Life is short. We believe work should be awesome, meaningful, and fun. At Simprints we’re taking on global development’s biggest challenges, powered by an amazing culture and incredible people. Work with us, and you will grow faster, learn more, and take on real responsibilities with potential to make lasting change. We offer:
- Genuine Impact. Work directly with our partners and users to deliver technology that has the potential to impact millions of lives.
- Incredible, diverse team. Ask any “Simployee” what their favorite thing about working at Simprints is, and the answer is likely to be “the people.” Our work is at the intersection of technology and global development, and we’ve managed to build an amazing team drawn from all over the world. But don’t take our word for it—we’re an externally recognized Great Place to Work and 2022 Best Workplace for Women
- Career Advancement. Join the top leadership team of a forward thinking social enterprise that is already pushing the boundaries of people leadership, with initiatives like unlimited PTO and progressive maternity/paternity leave.
- Flexible hours. More efficient late at night? Better before the sun rises? That’s fine by us. We are looking for people who get the job done, not for people who work between 9am and 5pm.
- Professional development and wellbeing. We promote continual learning with self-directed learning objectives, external mentors, and regular one-on-one feedback. We also put our money where our mouth is with a dedicated ‘Learning ’ budget, and access to global experts though the GLG network.
- Unlimited paid time off. We set high standards and goals, but give people the freedom to choose when and how to recharge. Join a team that trusts you with the job.
Simprints is an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves in our firm commitment to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workplace. We aim to attract, hire, grow, and retain the most qualified candidates regardless of race, gender, ability, religion, nationality, age, sexuality, and other differences. We encourage interested and suitable candidates who are part of underrepresented groups to apply for this position.
How to apply
We are recruiting on a rolling basis for this role. With that in mind, we advise candidates to apply as soon as possible as we will be reviewing applicants on a first come first served basis. This vacancy will be closed once a suitable candidate has been identified.
Traditional recruitment processes are open to a lot of subconscious bias: your name, where you studied, previous employers and a host of other factors can lead to your candidacy being treated differently to others. We’ve built a recruitment system that seeks to minimise that bias as much as possible.
To apply:
- Submit your CV at www.simprints.com/careers. We will follow up with a technical assessment. Not everyone is great at face-to-face interviews, and we want to make sure that you have the best chance to show yourself off in the best light.
- Submit the technical assessment. Once we’ve received your completed assessment, they will be blinded and given to a panel of reviewers to be scored independently. Top-scoring applicants will then be invited to a video interview.
- The interview is an opportunity to understand your motivations for joining Simprints, assess cultural and technical fit, and provide you a chance to ask any questions you have about the role and company.
- After the interview we plan to invite one or two candidates to a virtual digital experience half-day. The experience day is intended to ensure that Simprints is as good a fit for you as you are for us. You’ll have a chance to meet some of the team and demonstrate your skills in a few more technical exercises that simulate what it’s like to work as a data scientist at Simprints.
To apply please follow the link: https://bit.ly/3IuHCM7