Remote Volunteer Data Scientist — Youth Program & EdTech Insights

Responsibilities

• Frame clear analytical questions with program and product stakeholders
• Explore, clean, document, and analyze structured or unstructured data
• Develop statistical, predictive, segmentation, or recommendation approaches when appropriate
• Evaluate model performance, uncertainty, bias, fairness, and practical usefulness
• Create reproducible notebooks, code, visualizations, and technical documentation
• Communicate findings in plain language without overstating conclusions
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, product, privacy, and program volunteers
• Recommend responsible data collection and measurement improvements

Qualifications

• Experience in data science, statistics, machine learning, quantitative research, or applied analytics
• Proficiency with Python, R, SQL, or comparable analytical tools
• Knowledge of experimental design, model evaluation, visualization, and reproducibility
• Strong ethical judgment regarding privacy, bias, sensitive data, and youth-related contexts
• Ability to translate analysis into actionable recommendations
• Nonprofit, education, social-impact, or product analytics experience is helpful

Pay

This remote, recurring opportunity is flexible and typically requires up to 10 hours per month.

Schedule

Volunteers may participate from anywhere.