- Company: Slum and Rural Health Initiative (SRHIN)
- Location: Ibadan, Oyo
- Job type: Full-Time
About the role
Slum and Rural Health Initiative (SRHIN) is a nonprofit organization registered in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and The Gambia. Since 2017, the team has worked to improve access to healthcare information and services in vulnerable communities across Africa using advocacy, research, and technology. This full-time position is based in Ibadan, Oyo.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop NLP solutions to support data analysis, research, and digital health projects.
- Develop and fine-tune NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, and information extraction.
- Pre-process and analyze large volumes of unstructured text data, such as survey responses and health records.
- Collaborate with the research team to apply NLP techniques to health and social research questions.
- Evaluate and improve model performance and accuracy.
- Document methodologies and maintain reproducible workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, or a related field.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in NLP or related machine learning work.
- Proficiency in Python and NLP libraries/frameworks (e.g., spaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face Transformers).
- Strong understanding of language modelling and text data pipelines.
- Experience applying NLP in health or social science contexts is an advantage.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates should click here to apply online.
