Advancing Health for Humanitarian Support Initiative (AIDHealth Inc.) – hiring Hausa NLP Data Scientist (Remote)

Advancing Health for Humanitarian Support Initiative aka (AIDHealth Inc.) is a non-religious, not-for-profit organization officially registered with Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in 2024. AIDHealth was founded by a visionary coalition of Nigerian healthcare professionals, public health experts, development practitioners, and diaspora leaders with a mission to bridge systemic gaps in healthcare access for marginalized and displaced populations. Through an integrated, evidence-based approach, AIDHealth Inc., implements cross-cutting programs addressing the root causes of persistent health challenges, particularly poverty, inadequate health infrastructure, and socio-economic disparities. By leveraging innovative healthcare solutions, strategic partnerships, and community-driven interventions, AIDHealth is committed to strengthening health systems and ensuring sustainable, equitable healthcare services for vulnerable populations, especially women, children, and the youth.

AIDHealth bridges the divide between emergency response and resilience-building. The organization leverages Nigeria’s dynamic NGO ecosystem to foster cross-continental collaboration. Headquartered in Nigeria, AIDHealth Inc., operates through strategic regional hubs, partnering with global and local stakeholders to advance health equity, development, and humanitarian nexus interventions …advancing health equity…service without borders.

We are  recruiting to fill the position below:

 Job Title: Hausa NLP Data Scientist

Job ID: SL-02
Location:  Nigeria (Remote)
Employment Type: Part-time Expert

Responsibilities

• Benchmark candidate listening platforms on how much relevant Hausa content they capture.
• Fine-tune African-language models (AfroXLMR or AfriBERTa class) on project-coded Hausa data.
• Automate a coding category only once the model reaches a macro-F1 score of 0.80 or higher against human coding.
• Monitor model accuracy monthly and retrain models when performance drifts.
• Run time-series analysis and comparisons across the study phases.
• Maintain the secure, encrypted data warehouse and the project code repository.

Required experience

• MSc or higher in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Data Science, Statistics or Computational Linguistics.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in applied NLP or machine learning.
• Hands-on experience fine-tuning transformer models.
• Experience with African or other low-resource languages, ideally Hausa.
• Strong Python skills (Hugging Face, pandas, scikit-learn) and working knowledge of SQL.
• Native Hausa speaker with fluent English.

Preferred experience:

• Publications or open-source work on Hausa NLP (for example AfriSenti or NaijaSenti).
• Topic modelling (BERTopic) and time-series analysis in R or Python.

Skills and attributes:

• Rigour in measuring and reporting model accuracy honestly.
• Able to explain technical limits to non-technical colleagues.

Application Deadline 
15th October, 2026.

METHOD OF APPLICATION 
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications in one PDF to: info@aid-health.org using “SL Application – [Job ID] – [Full Name]” as the subject of the mail.

Candidates should send one PDF containing:

• A CV (maximum 4 pages);
• A one-page cover note;
• One work sample;
• Two referees.

Note

• Engagement depends on the contract being awarded.
• AIDHealth never charges a fee at any stage of recruitment.
• Women and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.