Data Scientist

WFP seeks a regular consultant Data Scientist, administratively based in Rome and working remotely, to advance individual fundraising analytics. The consultant will transform transactional, web, app and experimental data into insights, machine-learning models and AI solutions; collaborate with fundraising, product and engineering teams; deploy scalable predictive models for segmentation and don...

• Develop data science pipeline for individual fundraising
• Build and deploy machine-learning models
• Apply AI, NLP, large language models and agentic workflows
• Perform model evaluation and optimization
• Operationalize models with engineering teams
• Maintain model and code repositories

• University degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, statistics, engineering or related quantitative field
• Six years relevant experience
• Large-scale data and machine-learning or AI solution experience
• Python or R proficiency

• Cloud-platform and modern-data-tooling knowledge

• Machine learning
• Artificial intelligence
• Predictive modeling
• Natural language processing
• Data analysis
• Feature engineering

• Python
• R
• Cloud platforms

• Remote regular consultant; Rome administrative duty station