In A Nutshell
Responsibilities include keeping the platform accurate, current, and useful — building the pipelines that bring in new data, maintaining the systems that power it, and making the outputs legible to people who don’t read spreadsheets.
Responsibilities
Data & Pipelines
- You will be managing, making sense from the larger data set from govt and many other spaces.
- Build and maintain pipelines that pull, clean, and process government datasets into YouthPOWER indicators.
- Update the platform as new data releases come in — PLFS, Census, ASI, ASUSE and others.
- Identify new datasets worth integrating and make the case for including them.
- Ensure every number is traceable — clean audit trails, reproducible outputs, no black boxes
Systems & Code
- Work within a database-backed system (Supabase/PostgreSQL).
- Write and maintain scripts in Python and Stata.
- Keep code organised and version-controlled on GitHub.
- Own data quality end-to-end — catch errors before they go public.
Visual Communication
- Build charts, maps, and visual explainers that make district-level patterns readable.
- Translate complex indicator outputs into formats that work for policymakers, journalists, and citizens.
- Think about who is reading this — not just whether the data is correct.
Skillset
- You’ve worked with messy, real-world data — ideally Indian government or administrative datasets.
- You write clean Python; you’re comfortable with Stata, SQL, and Git.
- You have a visual instinct — you know when a chart is doing its job and when it isn’t.
- You’re self-directed — you don’t need someone to tell you the pipeline broke, you already know.
- Background in data journalism, computational social science, or public policy data work is a strong fit.
- Economics or policy background helpful but not required — quantitative rigour and curiosity about India matters more.