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You will join an established team and work across technically diverse projects.\nWhat you will do\nSpeak with subject matter experts and clients to define the problem, success measures, data needs and an appropriate analytical approach.\nPrepare and analyse data, develop and evaluate models or prototypes using statistical methods, forecasting, machine learning or language models where suitable.\nPresent findings, assumptions and limitations to subject matter experts, clients and nontechnical audiences, invite challenge and adapt the work to their feedback.\nCollaborate with colleagues across different technical disciplines to document work, make results reproducible and develop promising prototypes into reliable solutions.\nContribute technical ideas, estimates and evidence to proposals, and manage your work across several concurrent projects.\nShare methods and reusable approaches with colleagues across the data science team.\nWhat you will bring\nHands-on experience in Python for analysis and modelling, including common data and machine learning libraries, ability to use SQL to extract, join and check data.\nSound grounding in statistics and machine learning, including regression or classification, forecasting, validation, baseline comparisons and appropriate performance measures.\nPractical familiarity with using large language models in analysis or prototyping, including prompting, checking outputs against evidence and recognising privacy, accuracy and reliability risks.\nExperience preparing imperfect data, building reproducible analyses and writing maintainable code with version control and testing.\nAbility to take an ambiguous question from discovery to a working demonstration, explain assumptions and uncertainty, and judge whether a solution is worth developing for operational use.\nConfidence working independently and engaging stakeholders across teams, clear written and spoken English for technical and nontechnical audiences.\nA relevant degree or equivalent practical experience in a quantitative field.\nUseful additional experience\nExperience working in public policy, government, research or evaluation\nExperience in consulting, public policy research or client-facing delivery, familiarity with cloud platforms, APIs, data pipelines or deployment.\nExperience building AI agents or applications that connect language models to data and tools, such as retrieval-based systems. 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For roles located in the UK, Belgium, Spain, or Germany, applicants must:\nHold the right to work in the country where the role is based, or be eligible for visa sponsorship, which we may consider on a case-by-case basis, and \nBe physically present in that country by their first day of employment (or able to relocate beforehand). \nUnless stated otherwise, relocation support is not automatically provided.\n#Indeed #LI-CC1\nBot and Third-Party Applications\nPlease note that this application must be submitted directly by the applicant for consideration. Failure to do so may result in the application being excluded for consideration. Applicants needing an accommodation for disability or religious purposes in connection with the application process should contact  for assistance.\nWorking at ICF\nICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. 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