Data Insights Specialist

We are looking foran experienced, enthusiastic and diligent

Data Insights Specialist to join ourData team.

This is a super exciting time to join the Data team at Reboot as we recently unveiled our data capabilitiesas a new service line! Specialists on the team will helpshape and deliver on this offering.

You will thrive in a fast-paced agency setting and be passionate about using data analytics, science and statistics to produce meaningful interpretations of data, for use in ourdata-led campaigns

Reboot offers numerous benefits and perks, including a 4-day working week with Fridays off and the opportunity to work remotely.

As a Data Insights Specialist at Reboot, you will be instrumental in driving data-driven storytelling and uncovering newsworthy angles through data mining, visualisation and analysis. You will work across a multitude of sectors, where you will use science and statistics to transform raw data into compelling narratives that enhance the impact of our client’s digital PR Campaigns.

You willbe resourcefulin your approach to finding authoritative and interesting data sources to shapecampaigns. You will also be expected to communicate the actionable insights of the data in such a way that digital PR team members can easily take news angles from, for their campaigns.

You'll attend pitches and ideations for data input/feasibility checks and support our Data Analysts to deliver tasks to the high standard our client base expects.

• Utilise various data sources and web scraping techniques to gather relevant datasets and uncover potential news stories and insights
• Conduct data cleaning and preprocessing to ensure data quality and usability for analysis and visualisation
• Handle large datasets efficiently and implement data cleaning best practices to maintain the integrity of collected data.
• Apply advanced data analytics techniques to extract meaningful insights from complex datasets
• Uncover patterns, trends, and relationships in the data to identify engaging narratives and provide unique insights and perspectives on news events
• Contribute to data team-led ideation sessions; working to proactively provide the digital PR team with topics/angles for campaigns
• Review and feedback on datasetsthat Data Analysts have collected for accuracy and insights
• Provide team training

• Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
• Strong proficiency in data analysis tools such as Python, R, SQL, Excel, and data visualisation tools (e.g., Tableau, D3.js)
• Experience with web scraping libraries (e.g., Beautiful Soup, Scrapy) and data mining techniques to discover news angles
• Experience with natural language processing techniques to clean information such as social media posts
• Excellent storytelling and communication skills (a passion for journalism) with the ability to present data-driven stories to diverse audiences.
• A critical thinker - always putting your best foot forward and providing solutions to roadblocks
• Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple data journalism projects simultaneously, and meet tight deadlines as priorities change
• Able to take complex data and break down to allow people of different levels of data literacy to understand