NLP and AI Intern

ABOUT THE COMPANY

We are a social enterprise transforming health systems through gender equity, innovation, and sustainable investment

JOB SUMMARY

The NLP and AI Intern will support the development of English and Swahili language resourcesand early AI/NLP workflows for FemDigiNomics.Ideal candidate• Background in computer science, data science, computational linguistics, AI, NLP,information systems, or related fields.• Interest in African languages, especially Swahili and Sheng.• Basic knowledge of Python, NLP libraries, machine learning, data annotation, orlanguage data processing is an advantage.• Strong commitment to ethical, community-grounded AI. Key responsibilities• Support the collection, cleaning, translation, and annotation of Swahili and mixedlanguage narratives.• Help develop language categories around savings, debt, chama obligations, business risk,care work, health shocks, and lending readiness.• Assist in testing simple NLP workflows for classifying women’s needs, barriers, andsupport pathways.• Support documentation of language resources, annotation protocols, and model/testingoutputs.• Contribute to responsible AI discussions, including bias, explainability, privacy, andethical use of women’s data.Work with community and research teams to ensure language tools reflect how women actuallydescribe their economic realities

REQUIRED SKILLS

Information security, Data analysis, Artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML)

REQUIRED EDUCATION

Diploma, Associate's degree