Senior Data and Insight Scientist

Job ID:41903

Senior Data and Insight Scientist

Lloyds Register Foundation

Location: London - UK

Candidates must provide work authorization for the respective country.

Applied data and statistical skills along with the ability to communicate insights clearly to nontechnical audiences

Applications close: 6th September 23:59 UK time

Interview to be held Week commencing 21st September

About the Role:

The Senior Data and Insight Scientist provide analytical leadership across Lloyds Register Foundation ensuring that data and evidence are robust meaningful and usable for decisionmaking and impact.

The role bridges deep technical expertise with clear insight translation supporting flagship programmes including the World Risk Poll and the Global Safety Evidence Centre.

This is a hybrid role combining advanced data analysis applied statistics evidence production and high-quality communication. It plays a central role in strengthening the Foundations evidenceled approach to safety.

About the Global Safety Evidence Centre

Lloyds Register Foundations mission to engineer a safer world is underpinned by the use of robust and credible evidence to better understand the nature and scale of global safety challenges and what is needed to address them. While we know this evidence is critical to informing decision-making and improving safety it often does not yet exist or is not easily accessible. Responding to this need the Foundation has established GSEC as a hub for anyone who needs to know what works to make people safer collating the best safety evidence from our partners and other sources and communicating it in an understandable and actionable form. GSEC also hosts the Foundations own evidence outputs such as our flagship World Risk Poll.

What we offer you

• Full time Permanent role
• Hybrid and flexible work schedules with an appreciation for work-life balance
• Working in a global company with the ability to work with different cultures and diverse people
• Competitive benefits package including 26 days holiday pro rata per annum plus flexible bank holidays buy/sell holidays bonus scheme company funded PMI EAP discount scheme & opportunities for learning & development (including financially supported part-time study)
• The opportunity to work for an organization that has a clear sense of purpose is values-driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programs.

The Role

We do not expect applicants to demonstrate all of the specific skills outlined and we are interested in hearing what you can bring to the role.

1. Analytical Leadership

• Perform high quality quantitative analysis across complex and large-scale datasets
• Apply appropriate rigorous and transparent analytical methods
• Ensure strong quality assurance across data code and outputs
• Develop reproducible analytical workflows that can be audited and reused

2. Insight & Visual Communication

• Translate technical findings into clear compelling insight for non-technical audiences
• Design and maintain:
• Data visualisations
• Dashboards and data products
• Contribute analytical content to reports briefings and publications

3. Programme Support & Delivery

• Provide analytical leadership to major initiatives including:
  • World Risk Poll
  • Global Safety Evidence Centre
  • Work with programme teams to:
  • Shape research questions
  • Interpret findings
  • Apply evidence in practice
• Support monitoring evaluation and learning (MEL) through effective use of data and insight

4. Collaboration & Influence

• Work collaboratively with internal teams research partners and advisory groups
• Present insight to senior leadership Board members and external stakeholders
• Act as a trusted technical adviser within multidisciplinary teams

5. Capability Building & Innovation

• Improve analytical tools methods and workflows across the organisation
• Champion best practice in:
  • Data ethics
  • Reproducibility
  • Accessibility
  • Mentor colleagues and contribute to a strong analytical culture
  • Support the organisations shift toward data informed decision-making

What you bring

We do not expect applicants to demonstrate all of the specific skills outlined and we are interested in hearing what you can bring to the role.

Essential

Technical and Data

• Solid data analysis and transformation skills using modern analysis languages (SQL Python R) within a cloud-based data environment
• Experience working with both exploratory (notebook-based) and production code
• Experience with data engineering principles and cloud based data architecture

Statistical and Analytical

• Solid applied statistics including:
• Hypothesis testing
• Regression analysis
• Confidence intervals and effect sizes
• Experience working with complex survey data including:
• Weighting
• Sampling design
• Cross-national comparison
• Ability to develop reproducible auditable analytical workflows
• Strong numerical judgement and attention to data quality

Communication

• Effective verbal communication including presenting to senior and external audiences
• Clear written communication translating analysis into clear reports and narratives
• Ability to:
  • Translate ambiguous stakeholder questions into analytical problems
  • Translate findings into actionable insight

Ways of Working

• Senior individual contributor mindset with end-to-end ownership of work
• Effective stakeholder management across a complex organisation
• Experience working with international partners and multidisciplinary teams

Desirable

Technical and Systems

• Familiarity with:
• GCP / BigQuery
• dbt or Dataform
• Git/GitHub workflows
• Experience integrating data from multiple systems (e.g. CRM finance web analytics)
• Experience using BI tools (e.g. Looker Studio Tableau Power BI)

Advanced and Emerging

• Experience applying AI/LLM tools within analytical workflows
• Experience developing internal analytical tools (e.g. Shiny or equivalent)
• Working knowledge of web analytics data (e.g. GA4)

Statistical / Domain

• Background in survey methodology social statistics or policy-relevant analysis
• Experience working with international datasets
• Use of machine learning techniques where appropriate

Leadership and Delivery

• Experience mentoring or developing others
• Experience working with research or communications partners
• Ability to support organisational change toward stronger evidence use
• Experience in building networks relationships and ultimately and partnerships with relevant organisations
• Experience of championing data sharing data collection data use internally and externally

Design and data storytelling

• Experience in static design work to ensure data led reports are accurate and accessible
• Experience in dynamic web visualisation as a narrative tool or as a lead generator
• Evidence of engaging mixed methods storytelling

Role Impact

• This role is central to the Foundations credibility influence and effectiveness.
• By ensuring that evidence is:
• Technically robust
• Clearly communicated
• Decision ready
• the Senior Data and Insight Scientist enables the organisation to:
• Shape strategy
• Improve programme delivery
• Strengthen organisational impact
• Contribute to global conversations on safety and wellbeing

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About us

Lloyds Register Foundation is an independent global charity with a unique structure and an important mission: engineering a safer world. We reduce risk to people and property and enhance the safety of the critical infrastructure that modern society relies upon. We do this by investing in high-quality research innovation education and skills development and by convening stakeholders to form ambitious partnerships and coalitions. Our unique structure comes from the fact that we own a significant trading company Lloyds Register (LR). We share the same mission and work together to make the world a safer place.

Be a part of

Lloyds Register is wholly owned by the Lloyds Register Foundation a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world by promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy Lloyds Register colleagues and Lloyds Register Foundation work together to fund research foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place.

Want to apply

We hire people with a wide variety of skills experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability women people identifying as LGBTIQIA culturally and linguistically diverse people careers and other varied groups.

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you.

This position is available on a full-time basis however the Foundation is open to discussing applications for this role with flexible and part time working options.

If you dont tick every box in these ads please dont rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together to make the world a safer place.

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