Associate Data Scientist

About The Institutes

Located in beautiful Malvern Pennsylvania The Institutes are a not-for-profit comprised of diverse affiliates that educate elevate and connect people in the essential disciplines of risk management and insurance. Through products and services offered by our nearly 20 affiliated business units people and organizations are empowered to help those in need with a focus on understanding predicting and preventing losses to create a more resilient world.

Additionally we understand the importance of work-life balancein 2025 named us a Top Workplace for the tenth year and USA Today named us a USA Top Workplace for the third year. We provide excellent benefits and a friendly team-focused work environment to drive employee engagement.

Associate Data Scientist

The Insurance Research Council (IRC) Associate Data Scientist is responsible for conducting primary research and creating content in support of the IRCs public policy mission and member value proposition. This role requires not only strong analytical skills but also good communication skills (writing and presenting) to translate abstract mathematical and statistical concepts into everyday language.

What Youll Do:

1. Utilize advanced analytical techniques (including predictive modeling machine learning and AI) to conduct original research in the IRC proprietary auto injury claim analytics database (AICAD)
2. Analyze insurance economic financial and survey data to generate original research to benefit the insurance industry IRC members policymakers and consumers
3. Assist in the acquisition preparation analysis and presentation of insurance economic financial and survey data including future updates of AICAD
4. Perform analysis by processing data using best practices in data governance
5. Communicate data excellence and insights via traditional reporting products and data visualization tools
6. Contribute to the production of key IRC research projects including reports summaries and presentations
7. Perform additional data analytics and administrative tasks as assigned

What Were Looking For:

1. Bachelors degree required
2. Graduate degree in Mathematics Statistics or related field strongly preferred
3. Experience with programming languages required (SAS R SQL/VBA Python)
4. Experience with AWS cloud-based data hosting environment and analytical software packages like Sagemaker strongly preferred
5. 2 years of work experience in analytics strongly preferred
6. Must have 2 years of experience conducting quantitative research
7. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite required (Word PowerPoint Outlook). Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required
8. Prior experience and/or working knowledge of the risk management or insurance industry is preferred

Key Competencies

1. Technical Knowledge:

• Experience working in AWS cloud-based data hosting environment and analytical software packages like Sagemaker
• Experience with programming languages (e.g. SAS R SQL/VBA Python)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Special Working Conditions and Physical Demands

1. Available for 2-4 business trips per year

The Best Part The Benefits!

To enforce the importance of work-life balance employees enjoy excellent benefits including:

• 401(k) plan with company contribution up to 16%
• Generous time off package that includes paid vacation personal sick and holidays
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Medical dental vision and prescription coverage
• On our Malvern campus: Free lunch every day when working on campus onsite fitness center and a beautiful 1.25-mile walking path!

Required Experience:

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