DATA SCIENTIST
Hiring Range: $7,058 - $7,944 Monthly
New to the City of Grand Junction Team? Receive 40 hours Paid Time Off starting on your hire date!
Open until filled.
About the Position:
Visit Grand Junction is searching for an analytical expert to join our team as a Data Scientist. In this role, you will collect, convert, and integrate raw data from various sources and develop and implement analytics into meaningful insights to market Grand Junction as a destination of choice. The successful candidate will be proficient with data-oriented programming languages and visualization software, possess the ability to apply data mining, data modeling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyze large data sets, and be comfortable translating insights to others through the use of visualization and presentations. This position has supervisory responsibilities over data and business development personnel.
About Visit Grand Junction:
Visit Grand Junction (Visit GJ), the Destination Marketing Organization, is a Department of the City of Grand Junction. Visit GJ is dedicated to marketing the Grand Junction area, outside of Mesa County, to attract year-round tourism, thereby providing for a sustainable and consistent economy and enhanced quality of life for residents. The team consists of dynamic individuals who are culture-focused, innovative, driven, and dedicated to supporting the travel and tourism industry while reaching departmental goals that serve the Grand Junction community and guests. The Department has evolved into a state-of-the-art marketing organization utilizing data science as its foundation.
What We Offer:
We know that a healthy and happy workforce is a thriving workforce, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package that supports quality work-life balance including 32 days of paid annual leave to be used for holiday, personal, and/or sick days, health insurance options, employer-matched retirement, a City employee health clinic, wellness program, and an Employee Assistance Program. Of equal importance, we offer an opportunity to serve the community you love and live in. Our employees find their work rewarding and fulfilling, knowing that their day job makes a positive impact.
Our Culture:
At the City of Grand Junction, we lead the way with continuous improvement, collaborative partnerships, and exemplary service. Our core values are demonstrated by our willingness to challenge the status quo, ability to work together using all areas of expertise to achieve a common goal, and commitment to fulfilling the needs of our community through thoughtful interactions.
What You'll Do:
• Validate, upload, process, and manipulate large sets within data and analyses platforms to build easily understood insights that drive optimization and improvement of marketing campaigns and business strategies; translate, communicate, and present data analyses effectively.
• Utilize data visualization software for full-stack data management from multiple sources to analyze and interpret data and drive concepts from identification and ideation through execution that results in tangible, measurable and impactful business improvement strategies; maintain awareness and understanding of the implications of hidden biases within data sets.
• Apply data mining and data engineering techniques utilizing open-source data visualization, analysis, and machine learning tools, analyzing campaign results and relationships between multiple parameters utilizing market segmentation while triangulating data sources from multi-touch attribution to uncover actionable insights which result in increasingly impactful advertising campaigns.
• Scale measurement programs utilizing data visualization software that attribute the impact of marketing campaigns by analyzing campaign reporting; optimize media effectiveness within and across all Visit Grand Junction channels; identify return on investment on all marketing efforts.
• Utilize statistical computer languages and code; create and deploy advanced machine learning algorithms and statistics (simulation, optimization, clustering, decision tree learning, AI, scenario analysts, etc.) for analyzing data and building statistical models and algorithms to model predicting outcomes of interest, advantages, and drawbacks.
• Leverage statistical and computational knowledge to build algorithms for calculating variances, advantages, and disadvantages of business strategies; utilize predictive modeling to increase and optimize revenue generation, target markets, and other strategic outcomes.
• Apply data cleansing techniques such as deduplication, scaling and normalization, dimensionality reduction, imputation, and cross-validation to effectively segment and categorize data resulting in accurate messaging and content that engages with appropriate audiences and resonates with their interests.
• Implement advanced statistical techniques and concepts including but not limited
Location: Grand Junction, CO
Posted: Oct. 16, 2024, 6:31 a.m.
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