Job Location: Mumbai
Job Description – Assistant Manager – Data Analytics
“Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of
another reality.” – Robert J. Shiller, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Background:
The Public Education System in India has been generating more than ten billion data points on annual
basis. Every education department collects data from schools in digital format under UDISE as well as
other initiatives. However, efforts to initiate data analysis of the same have remained nascent. Given
the wealth of data and its potential use for well-informed capacity building and decision-making
processes, EdIndia Foundation has partnered with education departments of Tripura, Chhattisgarh
and Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) as well as Namsai district in Arunachal
Pradesh to analyse data sets and create data-driven strategy. EdIndia is in a process of building similar
partnership with education initiatives of other states as well.
EdIndia intends to expand its team anchored on innovation and data analytics to create relevant data
driven decision support system for government education system at scale. The analysis outcomes are
integrated with mobile enabled dashboards to provide easy to understand visual insights and
actionable. With significant impact made through this project in MCGM & Tripura already, EdIndia
intends to scale it up at national as well as international level. As a part of this journey, we are looking
out for Assistant Manager – Data Analytics who can lead the team to fulfil analytical needs of our
stakeholders.
- Providing technical leadership in Data Analytics and Visualization of large data sets
- Designing and developing analytical models and contribute in statistical analysis of relevant
- Handling end-to-end data import, processing and management of a huge volume of data in-
- Establishing the data analysis system model that enables fact-based decision making and ad
- Improving and streamlining processes regarding data handling, data structure, data analysis
- Spearheading insight generation as well as finalization along with final report generation
- Devise ways to integrate ML & AI component in different components of existing data
- Guiding the team throughout the process and oversee the progress of the project and prepare
relevant visualization dashboards for the key stakeholders including Education Department
Officials
- A believer in Data and its importance and their relevance: You have strong quantitative and
analytical abilities, with sound understanding of data; in both traditional relational systems
and present day big-data methodologies. Strong statistical background is must.
- A storyteller: You have a penchant for creating a story out of available data and have great
story telling skillset.
- A self-starter and learning enthusiast: It is a unique project and we want to work with people
who enjoy building things from the bottom up. The Data Support Project that we are
undertaking is cutting edge and would expose the team members to extensive mentoring on
combining data analysis and visualization with social impact. Most of the work we do has not
been tried before and initiative & a learning bent of mind will thrive in the project
environment.
- A friend to technology: We don’t want you to be techie or programmer but a knack to
understand technology and how to use it to make oneself efficient would be very useful.
Ability to understand how our dashboard works and to represent data to make critical
decisions would be very useful. Exposure to different databases/warehouses (like MySQL,
PostgreSQL, Big Query), statistical software e.g. STATA, Big Data space (R, R-Studio, Python)
and hands-on experience of visualising data analytics (e.g. Google Data
Studio/Tableau/Python) would be preferred
- A Team player: We are attempting to build a lean and flat organization. We are looking to get
together with people who are more driven by passion than position or perks. Hence it is critical
that one strives to add value to each team member and help everyone learn and succeed. This
is essential condition to affect the mission positively
- Complete openness to open-source movement and sharing: We embrace open-source
movement and all the content we create is free and open source for anyone out there. We
also believe in sharing our process and what we are learning periodically to create a
community of practice. An alignment to the same is something we are looking for in all our
team members
Location: Mumbai
Salary:
Commensurate to skill-sets and experience
If this excites you, please fill in your details at https://tinyurl.com/18vo5zbv and post review if it
matches our requirement, we shall contact you.
About EdIndia Foundation:
EdIndia Foundation is a section 8 not for profit company focussed on leveraging technology and data
analytics to create innovative solutions to impact education at scale. EdIndia has been provided
incubation support by Sterlite Power Transmission Ltd. (SPTL) and its group companies.
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