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About the Role
Pure Earth seeks a Data Scientist to enhance organizational monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems during a period of significant growth. In this role, you will serve as a hands-on analyst and advisor, designing implementation research, analyzing programmatic data, and translating findings into actionable decisions for headquarters and country program teams. You will collaborate with researchers, program managers, and policymakers globally, analyzing complex data, designing research protocols, and building statistical models to demonstrate intervention effectiveness. Your insights will influence program strategy, inform government policy, and contribute to the global evidence base on toxic pollution and health.
Responsibilities
- Design implementation research protocols and lead studies with HQ departments and country teams, from sampling and study design through data analysis and dissemination.
- Ensure studies meet ethical review (IRB) and data protection requirements, including for data collected from children and other vulnerable groups.
- Lead or support country teams in analyzing study and program data using advanced statistical methods (e.g., regression, mixed-effects and Bayesian models) and, where appropriate, machine learning and AI-assisted tools.
- Lead the writing of reports, policy briefs, blogs, and peer-reviewed publications, and represent Pure Earth at scientific and technical conferences and meetings.
- Build staff skills in data analysis and data use so that teams can analyze the program data they collect.
- Design and facilitate learning mechanisms (e.g., workshops, learning events) that promote cross-team learning, reflection, and decision-making, and train teams to use them.
- Document lessons learned and co-develop knowledge products that assess current data collection protocols and approaches, guide program strategy, communicate findings, and contribute to the sector-wide evidence base.
- Make complex data and findings accessible to non-technical internal and external audiences.
- Manage, analyze, and communicate both quantitative and qualitative data for program learning, strategy, fundraising, and communications.
- Advise on the continued development of Pure Earth’s MEL systems, processes, and tools so they capture progress, results, and lessons learned across major new projects.
- Support the development of proposals, concept notes, and funder-compliant project MEL plans aligned with Pure Earth’s program logic.
- Support efficient data collection for project and global indicators, including training staff on data collection tools and methods.
- Coach and train remote and distributed teams.
Requirements
- Degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, data science, or a related field, with one of the following: PhD and 6 years of relevant experience; master’s degree and 8 years; or bachelor’s degree and 10 years (or an equivalent combination of education and experience).
- At least 5 years designing and running implementation research or evaluation studies, and analyzing real-world program data, preferably in the international nonprofit sector.
- Advanced statistical skills, including sampling and study design, regression, and mixed-effects or Bayesian modeling.
- Proficiency in R, Stata, and/or Python, including in reproducible workflows and data visualization.
- Experience with research ethics, IRB submissions, and data protection.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities and deadlines.
- Able to meet teams where they are and recommend practical data science approaches that reflect realities of staff, partners, and other stakeholders.
- Have designed lean, rigorous implementation research strategies as part of an organization’s MEL strategy, ideally at an international NGO.
- You have built collaborative learning practices that turn knowledge from across departments into program improvements.
- Fluency in Spanish, Swahili, or another language used in countries where we work.
- Experience with environmental health or lead exposure data (e.g., blood-lead level surveys).
- Experience with geospatial analysis (e.g., QGIS, ArcGIS) or national health information systems (e.g., DHIS2).
- A record of peer-reviewed publications.
- Occasional early mornings, late evenings, or weekends to work with colleagues across time zones.
- International travel of approximately 10% to country offices and field sites.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where the role is based.
Skills
- Advanced statistical methods
- Regression
- Mixed-effects models
- Bayesian models
- Machine learning
- AI-assisted tools
- Data analysis
- Data visualization
- R
- Stata
- Python
- Reproducible workflows
- Quantitative data management
- Qualitative data management
- Implementation research
- Study design
- Sampling
- Research ethics
- IRB submissions
- Data protection
- Geospatial analysis
- QGIS
- ArcGIS
- DHIS2
Location
- New York City
- Remote within the United States
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- 6 years of relevant experience (with PhD)
- 8 years of relevant experience (with Master's)
- 10 years of relevant experience (with Bachelor's)
- 5 years of experience designing and running implementation research or evaluation studies
Education Level
- PhD
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $97,000 to $170,000
About the Company
- Pure Earth is a growing international nonprofit addressing toxic pollution and its impacts on human health, specializing in preventing exposure to lead and other toxins in low- and middle-income countries.
- We embed solutions into government systems that outlast any single project or grant.
- With substantial multi-year funding through the Audacious Project, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Coefficient Giving, and other partners, secured through 2033, Pure Earth is leading one of the largest concentrated efforts ever undertaken to end childhood lead poisoning.
- We are scaling proven interventions across dozens of countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, working in partnership with governments, multilateral organizations, leading philanthropies, and frontline organizations.
- Pure Earth holds top ratings from Charity Navigator and Candid, and our work has been featured on the TED mainstage and across major news and global health outlets.
- At Pure Earth, you'll join an agile, mission-driven team that translates science and innovation into measurable impact, with the resources, partnerships, and ambition to deliver change at scale.
Equal Opportunity
- It is the policy of Pure Earth to provide equal opportunity for all qualified persons and not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, gender or gender identity, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.