Data Scientist: J-PAL Africa

J-PAL Africa is seeking a South Africa-based Data Scientist to be based in Cape Town. The Data Scientist will be hired under J-PAL Africa’s Water, Air, and Energy (WAE) Lab, which is a collaboration with the City of Cape Town (CCT) to co-generate research and inform the scaling of evidence-based programs and policies that effectively improve access to clean air, water, and reliable energy for all residents of Cape Town. The data scientist will be seconded to the Data Science team at the CCT and will focus on two areas:

To design, develop and implement data infrastructures, pipelines, platforms and products to enable data functions to facilitate greater evidence-based and data-driven policy making within the City of Cape town;
To support WAE Lab research projects to access and utilize relevant administrative data by liaising with line departments across the CCT and building relevant data sets the research teams can access.

J-PAL Africa, the Africa hub of J-PAL Global, is based at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) in the University of Cape Town (UCT) School of Economics. This position will be based out of either our satellite office in Johannesburg or our office at UCT in Cape Town, depending on the project needs. This setup ensures proximity to our study partner organizations, program beneficiaries, and the rest of the J-PAL Africa research team.

Please note that if you submit your application using this form, your data will be stored on a server outside of South Africa. If you would like to email your application instead, please contact Archana M V at the email address listed at the bottom of this page.

Name*

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What is your current South African work status? Please note that J-PAL Africa cannot sponsor work permits.*

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As part of the application, you will be required to attach a single PDF file containing the following documents in the given order: (Incomplete applications will not be considered)

UCT Application Form HR201 (download here)
A letter of motivation addressing your qualifications for the various responsibilities listed above
Curriculum Vitae (CV) (no more than 3 pages)
Transcripts of your university degrees (Note this is required even though it is not called for in the HR201)

Please ensure that the PDF is named “Yourname_JPALDataScientist”.

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If you have any questions or are experiencing technical difficulties preventing you from applying, please email amv@povertyactionlab.org for assistance. You may also submit your applications directly to the above email address.

Please use Subject line: "Fullname_JPALDataScientist_Assistance" for any questions, and the subject line "Fullname_JPALDataScientist_Application" for submitting applications via email.