Data Scientist – Gender Data Lab

The consultant builds the data-science and AI components of Senegal's Gender Data Lab, creating statistical pipelines, predictive and generative models, a retrieval-based chatbot, analytical indicators and documentation while integrating the platform with other experts and training ANSD users.

Department: Women Count Programme

• Diagnose the Gender Data Lab and define priority artificial-intelligence use cases
• Build pipelines for preparing and transforming gender-statistics data
• Develop automated analytical, predictive and interpretive models
• Create a retrieval-based intelligent chatbot and maintain its knowledge base
• Design semantic search, indicators and decision-support dashboards
• Evaluate model performance and lead continuous improvement
• Document models, datasets, processing methods and validation procedures
• Integrate artificial-intelligence functions with the web platform and train users

• Master's degree in data science, artificial intelligence, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics or an equivalent field
• At least two years of professional experience in data-science or artificial-intelligence projects
• Experience developing data-analysis, machine-learning or artificial-intelligence models for statistical production
• Proficiency in Python and major data-science ecosystems
• Advanced SQL and experience with relational and NoSQL databases, data pipelines and APIs
• Fluency in French

• Four-month office-based consultancy requiring full-time presence at ANSD in Dakar
• Consultant reports contractually to the Women Count Programme Coordinator and UN Women Representative in Senegal