Information Specialist – Warsaw

QED.ai (https://qed.ai) is a tech company focused on public health and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. We build the digital infrastructure and AI used at the intersection of aid and scientific inquiry, including in-situ nutrient analysis of crops and soils, and surveillance of HIV and malaria at national-scale in multiple African countries. Our funding comes from philanthropic and governmental organizations such as the Gates Foundation, the Polish Ministry of Agriculture, EU funding, the Global Fund, and many more.

We are looking for an Information Specialist to join our team in Warsaw, Poland or Lilongwe, Malawi, to create effective and practical strategies for organizing vast troves of information in both the health and agricultural sciences.

Background

The Global South and the African continent is peppered with vast mountain ranges of disorganized paper-based data. These handwritten forms are not going away anytime soon due to systemic weaknesses in electrical, networking, and computer infrastructure. And yet, every sector of government, including the Ministries of Health, Agriculture, and Education, desperately need data to optimize their program