Junior Data Scientist

The Office for National Statistics is hiring a Junior Data Scientist for their Climate and Health Project team. This role involves coding, data manipulation, and analysis to address climate change impacts on health. The position offers a hybrid working model with a minimum of 40% office attendance. Flexible working patterns are available, including full-time and part-time options. Salary ranges from £34,075 to £38,718, with a strong focus on professional development.
Location: We operate a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations in Newport, Titchfield (Fareham), Manchester or Edinburgh and working between office and remote throughout the week. As part of the hybrid working arrangement, there is a 40% minimum office attendance requirement.

Salary: £34,075 - £38,718

Working Patterns: All our vacancies are offered as a flexible option of Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Job Share.

Closing Date: Apply before 11:55pm on Thursday 13th March 2025.

This is a great opportunity to join a high-tech organisation that's committed to personal & professional progression and get involved in meaningful work that aims to improve life in the UK and beyond.

We're searching for a Junior Data Scientist to join our Climate and Health Project team, helping us to build on our large-scale social & health data assets and expertise in data linkage, geospatial data & statistical modelling to better understand the current and future impacts of climate change on health, developing indicators at different geographical scales and exploring inequalities in impact across the population.

In the role, you will code, manipulate, engineer, model, and analyse data and/or data processes to underpin Climate and Health outputs, while remaining inquisitive, curious, and keen to learn and develop!

We want you to be able to write scripts and basic models using one or more software languages, and have a solid understanding of data science, statistics, and analysis. In addition, you should have an understanding of different project/product delivery methods (i.e., Agile, waterfall) and can articulate how they might complement different tasks in different ways.

Learn and gain support from our highly experienced & knowledgeable staff and upskill all the time thanks to our culture of development and extensive L&D offering!

In return we offer you:
• Hybrid working and flexi-time so you can work around your life, not the other way around!
• A market-leading pension scheme - our employer contribution rate is around 29%.
• A choice of working patterns for every role full-time, part-time, job-share.
• Maternity, adoption, or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria).
• Opportunities to learn new technology & skills on the job, utilising blocked out Protected Learning Time in your weekly schedule and taking advantage of the support of our Communities of Practice.
• Employee Assistance Programmes.
• Diversity Network Groups.
• Mental Health Allies.
• Civil Service Sports and Social club.
• Generous holiday allowance – 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years service in addition to 9 public holidays.

For more information about this role, a full application pack, and to apply, please hit APPLY to be taken to Civil Service Jobs.
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