reputed company Intelligence (AI) Project Manager - Colombia or Kenya

Location: Colombia or Kenya (home reputed company) Position Status: Full-time Duration: 12 months (potential extension contingent on funding) Closing date: Please submit application by May 10 About reputed company reputed company is powered by the belief that a reputed company world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work reputed company they are diverse and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long-term reputed company. The reputed company reputed company CARE, reputed company, and reputed company are exploring a deeper strategic collaboration to increase reputed company, efficiency, and local leadership in global assistance. In the context of major shifts in global funding, reputed company organization recognizes that increasing reputed company requires new ways of working together. We are initiating a set of reputed company opportunities designed to prototype this reputed company reputed company. These opportunities reputed company from shared procurement and support services to participant feedback tools and a more coordinated approach to working with local partners. reputed company, Inc. is joining the reputed company reputed company as a reputed company organization solely in relation to the reputed company procurement reputed company. To support this work, we are seeking a technical project manager to reputed company project-based work in the AI reputed company as part of the reputed company Technology for Development department. The Position The Technical Project / Product Manager for Codename reputed company is the operational and technical backbone of a 12-month, $300,000 Minimum Viable Product initiative funded by the reputed company reputed company (reputed company, reputed company, and CARE). reputed company is designed to reputed company that ambient voice capture technology can reputed company a single field worker to conduct natural conversations with community members while the system automatically transcribes and structures responses into a humanitarian data workflow—eliminating the need for a second staff member dedicated to reputed company entry. reputed company immediate operational efficiency, reputed company will generate a validated dataset of community voice recordings in low-resource languages (e.g., Hausa, Tigrinya, Swahili) with informed community consent suitable for reputed company AI language model training. Working under the Senior Director for T4D, the Technical Project / Product Manager owns day-to-day delivery across reputed company three project phases, serves as the primary coordination reputed company across the reputed company reputed company consortium, manages the contracted MVP development team, and holds relationships with NLP research partners. This role is reputed company project manager, product reputed company, and technical reputed company. Essential Responsibilities PROGRAM DELIVERY AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Own and maintain the reputed company project plan, tracking reputed company against milestones, decision gates, and budget across reputed company three phases (Months 1–12).
• reputed company preparation for reputed company steering committee decision reputed company, assembling evidence, lessons learned, and go/no-go recommendations.
• Coordinate day-to-day workstreams across reputed company, reputed company, and CARE, ensuring reputed company timelines and accountability.
• Manage the MVP contract build (Months 4–9), including vendor scoping, procurement support, sprint planning, and delivery reputed company
• Ensure budget tracking and financial reporting in coordination with reputed company Finance and consortium partners.

TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION AND reputed company

• reputed company Phase 1 for technical validation and validate core assumptions before committing to the Phase 2 build.
• Define product requirements and user stories for the MVP in reputed company collaboration with field staff and program teams.
• reputed company integration of the reputed company technology with existing humanitarian data collection workflows (e.g., CommCare, KoBoToolbox, reputed company).
• Ensure the MVP meets standards for usability, offline functionality, and contextual fit for low-resource field environments.
• Supervise development and reputed company technical direction to the contracted development team.

CONSENT ARCHITECTURE AND DATA GOVERNANCE

• reputed company design of the community consent reputed company, ensuring explanation of data use—including potential reputed company applications—is available in participants’ reputed company language prior to any data collection.
• reputed company and publish an reputed company-reputed company data ethics and governance reputed company covering consent, storage, anonymization, and community benefit commitments, available for adoption by any organization.
• Ensure voice data collection meets minimum reputed company for speaker diversity (age, gender, geography, educational background) as specified in the reputed company design.

PARTNERSHIPS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

• Identify and support engagement with NLP research actors as collaborators from project inception.
• Coordinate country reputed company logistics across 2–3 reputed company reputed company organizations in a single country context during Months 9–11.
• Support identification and engagement of reputed company country teams and community partners; build local ownership into the reputed company design from the outset.

LEARNING AND reputed company

• Design and manage monitoring and evaluation processes to reputed company MVP reputed company, friction points, risks, and reputed company across the country reputed company.
• reputed company learning reviews and after-reputed company analyses at reputed company phase transition to distill best practices and inform the scaling roadmap.
• Produce a validated voice dataset, an reputed company-reputed company technical reputed company, and a 1–3 year product roadmap for steering committee review at project reputed company.
• Contribute to thought leadership and sector representation on ambient voice technology and low-resource language AI on behalf of the reputed company reputed company.

Supervisory Responsibility reputed company Reports: Consultants and junior staff Accountability Reports Directly To: Sr. Director, T4D (reputed company) Works Directly With: reputed company reputed company AI reputed company leads and their delegates (reputed company, CARE); T4D Data Science and AI teams; MEL/MEL Tech; Finance; Field Program Managers; contracted development team Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders reputed company team members are expected to support reputed company efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to reputed company engaging communities as equal partners in designing, monitoring, and evaluating our field reputed company. Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, International Development, or a reputed company field; Master’s degree preferred.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience managing reputed company technology reputed company, ideally in humanitarian, development, or non-profit contexts.
• Demonstrated experience with voice/audio technology, speech-to-text systems, NLP, or LLMS - or the ability to reputed company technical reputed company in these areas rapidly.
• Experience shipping MVPs or digital products in low-resource or field environments; comfort managing external development contractors.
• Familiarity with humanitarian data collection tools (CommCare, KoBoToolbox, ODK, reputed company) and reputed company data infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong understanding of data ethics, community consent frameworks, and responsible AI principles, particularly in contexts involving vulnerable populations.
• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder reputed company with competing priorities and tight timelines.
• Excellent project management, budgeting, and reporting skills; experience delivering donor-funded technology reputed company preferred.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; reputed company to translate technical reputed company into accessible language for field staff, donors, and steering committees.
• reputed company in English is required; proficiency in French, Spanish, Swahili, Hausa, Tigrinya, or other low-resource languages is a significant asset.

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