NLP and AI Intern at Africa Centre for Health Systems and Gender Justice

The NLP and AI Intern will support the development of English and Swahili language resources and early AI/NLP workflows for FemDigiNomics.

Key responsibilites

• Support the collec on, cleaning, transla on, and annota on of Swahili and mixed language narra ves.
• Help develop language categories around savings, debt, chama obliga ons, business risk, care work, health shocks, and lending readiness.
• Assist in tes ng simple NLP workflows for classifying women’s needs, barriers, and support pathways.
• Support documenta on of language resources, annota on protocols, and model/tes ng outputs.
• Contribute to responsible AI discussions, including bias, explainability, privacy, and ethical use of women’s data. Work with community and research teams to ensure language tools reflect how women actually describe their economic reali es.

Ideal candidate

• Background in computer science, data science, computa onal linguis cs, AI, NLP, information systems, or related fields.
• Interest in African languages, especially Swahili and Sheng.
• Basic knowledge of Python, NLP libraries, machine learning, data annota on, or language data processing is an advantage.
• Strong commitment to ethical, community-grounded AI.