Anti-Trafficking Data Science Volunteer

About Us: Love Justice International (LJI) is a Christian nonprofit driven by a singular mission: to share the love of Jesus Christ by fighting the world’s greatest injustices. We pursue this calling through two primary efforts—our expanding anti-human trafficking work and the care of orphaned and abandoned children.

We are looking for faithful, compassionate, and mission-driven problem-solvers—people who think deeply about how to fight injustice and share Christ’s love in a broken world. This isn’t just a job; it’s a calling. If you’re searching for an easy, comfortable career, there are plenty of other options. But if you’re drawn to work that demands sacrifice, boldness, and faith, we invite you to apply and explore how you can be part of this mission.

Love Justice International has been recognized as a Best Christian Workplace for five consecutive years (2021–2025), most recently achieving the “Flourishing” category—the highest level of organizational health. Learn more about who we are, what sets us apart, and our open positions at lovejustice.ngo/careers.

What We Offer: Opportunities to truly change lives are exceptionally rare—but at LJI, that is exactly the kind of impact you can have. Although we’re a nonprofit, we operate as an “Impact Engineering” organization, focused solely on maximizing real-world outcomes. By combining scientific and business principles with field-led, locally informed insights, we intercept potential trafficking victims for under $112 each, creating a ripple effect that prevents several more individuals from enslavement. This remarkable efficiency underscores the profound, far-reaching impact your work can have on countless lives.

Position Type: Volunteer Unpaid; Remote

Program and Position Overview: Love Justice International (LJI) combats human trafficking through transit monitoring—intercepting potential victims at key transportation hubs, where traffickers and victims are most visible. Because trafficking is already underway at these points, our teams can gather vital information to assist law enforcement in arresting traffickers and disrupting trafficking networks. To date, LJI has intercepted over 95,000 individuals, resulting in more than 1,900 arrests. For more information on our impact, visit our website: lovejustice.ngo.

In addition to our anti-trafficking initiatives, LJI operates family homes and a school in Nepal for formerly orphaned and abandoned children. The Data Science Volunteer may also support this program by analyzing educational and well-being data to enhance the flourishing of these children.

Our approach to maximizing mission impact involves a process we call "Impact Engineering." Our dedicated Impact Engineering Team develops, refines, and improves our core processes by creating practical, scalable tools such as software applications, data-collection systems, spreadsheets, standardized forms, and clear operational standards. By continuously testing, refining, and standardizing these tools, we ensure consistent, measurable, and scalable impact across all our programs. This team's innovative work directly supports our frontline staff and helps optimize our interventions, enabling Love Justice to deliver the greatest possible impact per dollar spent.

LJI prioritizes a rigorous, data-driven approach to maximize impact and minimize harm. We use careful data collection and analysis to measure our effectiveness, continually refining and improving our anti-trafficking interventions. Adhering to the principle of "fail fast and often," we test innovative ideas quickly, discard what doesn't work, and scale interventions proven to produce the greatest measurable good per dollar spent. This disciplined, iterative approach helps us remain accountable to our mission, ensuring that every action we take truly benefits those we serve.

We need dedicated data scientists to develop predictive models and analytical insights to enhance our operations. These insights are then translated into practical applications by our data engineers. The Data Science Volunteer will play a key role in creating the data science models and performing the quantitative analyses to support LJI’s mission.

Joining LJI means stepping into an opportunity to deeply impact lives by combating injustice and expressing the transformative love of Christ. At LJI, you'll be part of a connected, purpose-driven team committed to impactful, kingdom-class excellence. Your analyses will directly contribute to saving lives, strengthening families, and helping children thrive in safe, loving environments.

The duration of this volunteer opportunity is flexible, but we ask for a minimum commitment of 100 hours.

The Data Science Volunteer will report to the Lead Data Scientist.

Key Responsibilities: (A portion of the following)

Develop and refine statistical and machine learning models to better understand patterns in trafficking risk, victim vulnerability, and program outcomes.
Conduct data analysis and visualization to generate actionable insights for anti-trafficking operations and for programs supporting children in family homes and schools in Nepal.
Collaborate with data engineers and field teams to ensure data quality, interpretability, and consistency across systems.
Design and document analytical workflows and reproducible research processes for ongoing impact evaluation.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of LJI’s data systems by identifying gaps, proposing metrics, and helping to standardize analytical methods.

Qualifications:

A strong commitment to social justice and advocacy on behalf of vulnerable populations.
Highly self-motivated with strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Minimum of a bachelor's degree in data science, or mathematics, or statistics, economics, or a related field (graduate students welcome).
Prior experience in data analytics, statistical modeling, or machine learning preferred.
Proficiency in R or Python, and relevant data science tools (e.g., pandas, tidyverse, scikit-learn, ggplot2, etc).

Application Process: We welcome applications continuously, as we actively seek exceptional candidates for this position. Candidates will submit a letter of interest and CV when they submit their application here. Nominations, inquiries, and questions concerning this search may be directed to careers@lovejustice.ngo. Visit the LJI careers page, https://www.lovejustice.ngo/careers, to learn more about our mission, explore FAQs, and see how you can be part of our work.

Please allow us 1-2 weeks to process your application. Thank you for your interest!