Job Description

General Summary

The Academy for Health Innovation, Uganda

The Academy for Health Innovation, Uganda (the Academy) is implementing a variety of projects related to AI and machine learning. We are seeking a junior data scientist to work across these projects and support development of AI within the Academy and wider IDI eco-system.

Job brief

Work will include: Working across project data held in the Academy for Health Innovation to understand and collate the data sets using analytical, statistical and programming skills. To support data visualization within the Academy to enhance our program activities and support partner understanding of project data. To provide technical support and guidance on AI and data science projects at the Academy.

Key Responsibilities

1. Interrogate, understand and manage different datasets at the Academy to support   layering of AI methods onto the existing projects.
2. Testing, validating and evaluating algorithms for CFL, ARTAccess and other health applications
3. Assist with feature selection and algorithm optimization.
4. Curate annotated datasets for Supervised Learning methods
5. To provide technical support to the Hub for AI in Maternal and Sexual Reproductive Health (HASH Project activities under the lead of project co-ordinator).
6. Support monitoring, evaluation and capacity building of HASH subgrantees.
7. To support stakeholder engagement with current and potential partners for the Academy’s AI projects.
8. Supporting data visualization of complex health datasets
9. Devise data representation and visualization protocols.
10. Compilation and writing of project reports
11. Attend Academy AI project meetings and other relevant meetings.
12. Remain updated in the rapidly changing field of Artificial Intelligence.

Skills Required

• Communication Skills
• Computer Literacy
• Problem Solving
• Analytical thinking
• Good interpersonal skills, ability to listen and observe
• Computer skills