Data Scientist

1 week ago

Durban, South Africa THINK Full time

THINK is a non-profit organisation committed to advancing health and well-being for vulnerable communities both locally and globally. Our work spans three central domains: research, health systems strengthening, and capacity building. Our focus is on addressing a wider spectrum of critical health challenges which include Infectious Diseases, Mental Health, Gender disparities, and building resilient healthcare systems in the face of pandemics and climate change. THINK engages with the local community, government consortia, and international funders to provide care and carry out cutting-edge work that has contributed to making a difference both locally and globally.

THINK seeks to recruit a short-term Data Scientist to develop a data visualisation platform to effectively utilise health data for informed decision-making purposes. The Data Scientist will focus on the development of an interactive data visualisation system and creation of web-based data repository for health-related data.

**Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including healthcare professionals, and IT, to understand data requirements and visualisation objectives.
- Design and implement an interactive data visualisation system that effectively presents complex health data to various stakeholders, enabling them to make informed decisions.
- Develop and maintain a user-friendly web-based data repository that houses health-related datasets, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility.
- Clean, preprocess, and transform raw data from diverse sources into formats suitable for visualisation and analysis.
- Utilise advanced data visualisation techniques and tools to create compelling and insightful visual representations of health data trends, patterns, and insights.
- Work closely with domain experts to identify key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics relevant to healthcare decision-making, and translate them into visual components.
- Collaborate with the IT team to ensure seamless integration of data visualisation solutions with existing systems and infrastructure.
- Conduct training sessions and workshops to enhance the data literacy of internal and external stakeholders, enabling them to effectively navigate and interpret visualised health data as required.
- Contribute to the development of data-driven strategies that address healthcare challenges, improve patient outcomes, and support evidence-based policymaking.

**Requirements**:

- Honours or Masters degree in data science or Information Technology.
- Minimum 3 - 5 years’ experience in the data analytics environment.
- Proven experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst.
- Experience in data mining.
- Knowledge of R, SQL and Python; familiarity with Scala, Java or C++ is an advantage.
- Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) and data frameworks (essential).
- Proficiency in MS Office 365 with well-developed Excel skills (essential).
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.

**Compensation**

The rate for this position will be commensurate with qualifications and experience and will be aligned with current market trends.

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