Job Description

Location: Cambridge, CB2/ Hybrid

Contract: Permanent; 35 hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity for a Data Scientist to apply their skills in the growing field of People Analytics.

As a Data Scientist specialising in People Analytics, you\'ll join a team that\'s passionate about driving evidence-based decision-making in People and Culture, and our wider business. You\'ll work with varied data sets and use diverse techniques to provide insights to a wide range of stakeholders.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

Working alongside colleagues in the People Analytics team, and wider People and Culture team, you\'ll use your data science skills to deliver actionable insights to shape our products and services.

You\'ll also:

• Design and conduct analytic and data science projects and communicate findings to key stakeholders across the business
• Create data pipelines by structuring, cleaning, validating, and joining data from multiple sources
• Take the lead in developing the use of Generative AI in People and Culture
• Support the creation, optimisation, support, and maintenance of a portfolio of analytic and machine learning services
• Help develop and upskill other members of the team

About you

You\'ll have a relevant MSc degree or equivalent qualification, or other evidence of equivalent knowledge and experience.

You\'ll also have the following skills:

• Advanced coding in Python, R, SQL or similar
• Machine learning and / or statistical analysis and / or natural language processing and / or data engineering, drawing on a range of simple and advanced methods and techniques in line with best practice
• Ability to translate of business challenges and opportunities into data science problems and solutions
• Clear communication of technical information to specialists and non-specialists

We\'re always exploring what\'s possible, so you\'ll be curious and keen to learn and innovate new ways to improve our data products and services.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Thursday 7 December 2023. Interviews are scheduled to take place on the 14, 15, and 18 December 2023.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You\'ll belong to a collaborative team that\'s exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers, and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society, and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development, and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background, and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

\xc2\xa333,300 to \xc2\xa343,400 per annum

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