Remote Volunteer Data Scientist — iLevelUP

Responsibilities

• Translate an approved program or product question into a documented analysis or modeling plan
• Audit data fitness, provenance, representativeness, missingness, bias, leakage, and limitations
• Develop reproducible baselines, statistical analyses, or models using minimum-necessary data
• Compare performance across relevant groups only when lawful, appropriate, and approved
• Document features, assumptions, evaluation metrics, uncertainty, limitations, and intended use
• Build explainable outputs and monitoring recommendations
• Avoid automated eligibility, high-stakes decisions, individualized profiling, or unsupported causal claims
• Coordinate ethics, privacy, security, program, and technical review before any operational use
• Never deploy models or access participant data outside explicit authorization

Qualifications

• Experience with Python or R, statistics, machine learning, experimentation, evaluation, and data visualization
• Strong validation, reproducibility, bias assessment, documentation, and plain-language communication
• Familiarity with privacy-preserving methods, responsible AI, and education or social-impact research
• Graduate training or equivalent applied experience is helpful
• At least 21 years old and willing to complete screening and confidentiality requirements