Data Scientist, Early Childhood Policy Research Group

🇺🇸 Gainesville, Florida 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $100K - $115K 💻 Data Science 🗓️ September 6th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

University of Florida is hiring a Data Scientist, Early Childhood Policy Research Group. The role builds and maintains measurement, data engineering, and analytics support across early childhood research, service, and policy work in the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies. It also advises investigators and project leads on measurement approaches, analytic strategy, and data governance.

Highlights

Construct and maintain community-needs-assessment indicators and composite indices like the Florida Index of Child Care Access
Maintain the Sunshine Portal's data structure across sources including School Readiness, VPK, SNAP, and IDEA Part B records
Support analytics and reporting for The Children's Trust Thrive by 5 contract
Provide day-to-day technical guidance to data analysts, research staff, and graduate assistants
Advise investigators on measurement approaches, analytic strategy, and data acquisition feasibility across the research portfolio
Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, bioinformatics, or a similar field plus five years of experience (or a Master's plus three years, or a doctorate plus one year)
Proficiency in R and/or Python plus SQL preferred
Salary range $100,000 - $115,000; this is a time-limited, soft-funded position