Overview
Job Title: Intern – Data Annotation
Job location: Arusha
Experience of Work: Fresher
Application deadline: September 14, 2024
Type of Industry: Research
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Job Summary:
About the Organization:
In order to enhance people’s lives, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT provides research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and restructure food systems in a sustainable manner. The worldwide challenges of environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and starvation are addressed by alliance solutions.
Through innovative collaborations, the Alliance produces data and popularizes technologies to change food systems and environments in order to feed people during a climate emergency, promote prosperity, and protect the environment.
The Alliance is a member of the CGIAR, an international collaboration on research for future food security.
Concerning the role (position):
We are looking for an intern who will assist the Digital Inclusion team in Arusha with their data annotation responsibilities. The applicant’s home base will be in Arusha. The individual will help the engineering and data teams with annotation duties, improving the quality of the data for training computer vision models.
The key responsibilities:
- Add annotations to photos of various crops, such as beans, sorghum, cassava, etc., and crop characteristics, including pods, flowers, grains, roots, etc.
- Work closely with the internal team and outside annotators to ensure accuracy and consistency by reviewing and improving annotations.
- Help the data and engineering team create and update training materials and annotation guidelines, and support the training of external annotators.
- Assist the engineering and data teams in keeping an extensive inventory of annotated datasets, which is crucial for the accessibility and quality of data.
- Contribute to the creation and execution of imaging data quality control procedures.
- As allocated, perform additional tasks pertaining to the project and research goals.
Conditions/ Requirements:
- Enrolled in or just finished (within the last year) a bachelor’s or master’s program in computer science, community development, agriculture, or a similar field.
- Proficiency with the Office suite from Microsoft.
- Superior written and spoken English language proficiency.
- It is necessary to have access to a personal laptop in order to do this work.
- Crop data collection experience is advantageous.
- An advantage is having prior experience with picture annotation activities and technologies.
- An advantage is having prior experience with Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and teamwork abilities.
- Strong organizational, prioritizing, problem-solving, and precision abilities.
Conditions (Terms) of employment:
Based in Arusha, Tanzania, this is an internship opportunity. The first agreement will be for a duration of six months.
Offering a respectable pay and first-rate benefits, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT provides a multicultural, collaborative research environment. We think that one of the reasons for our staff’s excellence is their variety. The Alliance promotes gender and national diversity in its workforce and is an equal opportunity employer.
Workplace equity, safety, and inclusivity are priorities for the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT. We think that diversity is essential to our mission, drives our creativity, and enhances our greatness. One of our top priorities is hiring and training employees to build an inclusive company that represents our multicultural nature. We welcome applications from people of all ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, marital status, national or regional origins, races, colors, and religions. Applications from female applicants are highly welcomed.
The Application:
Interested parties are encouraged to apply and obtain all job details at https://alliancebioversityciat.org/careers. Applications for the post of RFP XXXX Data Analysis Intern must contain reference number. For simplicity of sorting, the cover letter and CV should be stored as one document using the candidate’s first and last names. In compliance with relevant data protection legislation, the Alliance gathers and uses personal data.
The deadline for applications is September 14, 2024.
Applications submitted via email will not be taken into consideration.
Only those who have been shortlisted will be contacted.
Please visit our website at http://alliancebioversityciat.org to learn more about who we are.
