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Best Friends Animal Society · 5 hours ago

Data Scientist

United States

Full-time

Remote

Entry, Mid Level

$85K/yr - $95K/yr

2+ years exp

Best Friends Animal Society is dedicated to saving the lives of animals and promoting no-kill shelters across the nation. They are seeking a Data Scientist who will turn shelter and community data into actionable strategies to support their initiatives and communicate data trends effectively to various audiences.

EducationGovernmentNon Profit

No H1B

Responsibilities

Use shelter and community data to aide in lifesaving by identifying deficits and opportunities

Create timely and meaningful reports, analyses, forecasts, etc. to fulfill organizational planning, strategy, and measurement needs

Work with leadership to identify gaps in data collection, inconsistencies, and imperfections across various internal programs and propose solutions to best measure and improve lifesaving efficiency

Collaborate with the data engineering team to help build our data ecosystem necessary for the innovations that will reach our lifesaving goals

Partner with data visualization specialists to make relevant data and insights accessible via dashboards and other visualization modalities

Qualification

Data sciencePredictive modelingQuantitative analysisPythonData visualizationProblem-solvingCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, a related field, or equivalent experience

2+ years of professional experience in quantitative analysis, predictive modeling, data science, and machine learning

Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills

Ability to turn analysis into directly actionable insights and explain using simple language to diverse audiences

Preferred

Proficiency with languages such as Python, R, or SQL, Snowflake, data visualization tools, and Microsoft Office suite preferred

Experience with the animal welfare movement and understanding of animal sheltering data is a plus

Benefits

Great benefits

Company

Best Friends Animal Society

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Best Friends Animal Society is a nonprofit organization,operates the nations largest sanctuary for homeless animals,provides adoption.

Founded in 1984

Kanab, Utah, USA

501-1000 employees

https://bestfriends.org/

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$2.31M

Key Investors

Maddie's Fund

2023-06-28Grant· $0.03M

2022-12-23Grant· $0.78M

2019-07-17Grant· $1.5M

Leadership Team

Gregory Castle

CEO Emeritus

Julie Castle

Chief Executive Officer

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