Data Adventurers

The role

Global Water Intelligence (GWI) is looking for brilliant graduates to push back the frontiers of data publishing. AI technology is opening up a massive new opportunity for our business, and we need adventurers with the ingenuity and determination to seize it. It involves understanding where true value in a data set lies and then harnessing the power of large language models to pursue that value through every challenge until it is packaged and delivered to our customers.

About you

Success in this job is more of a mindset than a skillset. That is to say, we are not specifically looking for data scientists or other IT specialists who know a bit of Python. In today’s world of vibe coding that is unnecessary. We are looking for bright, goal oriented, problem solvers, who can understand an objective, breakdown the processes involved in delivering it, and then find a way around every obstacle presented along the way. The job won’t work for you if you want to be spoon fed with tasks every morning. We can provide training and support, but we want people who, once they understand the challenge, will become their own task master.

Arts graduates may be as good at this as scientists, as long as they are curious and creative thinkers. You should have pursued a rigorous course of study at university. You should be interested in the potential of AI and be looking for a first job that puts you on the winning side of that technology. An engagement with the issues that the world is facing as a result of climate change is also important. Fluency in a European language would be an advantage, but not a necessity.

About us

Global Water Intelligence exists to bring together the people and ideas that make the world of water work better. Historically we have done this through publishing Global Water Intelligence magazine (with related databases) and through organising the Global Water Summit. We are now discovering that AI technology enables us to build new water-related datasets much more cheaply and quickly than was previously possible, and that is where we see our future growth coming from. Our work is delivered by a diverse and committed team, based in our central Oxford headquarters.

The benefits

The starting salary is £31,500, plus bonuses related to project delivery. A fluent German or French speaker is preferred. You would be expected to work from our central Oxford offices for three days per week. We offer 25 days paid leave a year plus, generous maternity pays and a company pension scheme. 

How to apply

Please send your CV plus a covering letter by 5th September 2025. In your covering letter we would like to you to tell us about something you have done independently that you are proud of, explaining challenges that you faced along the way, and how you addressed them. We will reply to all applicants who follow this instruction.