Job Description

The International Potato Center (CIP) is looking forone(1)Information Management Intern to provide support toDigital & Data Departmentin Lima, Peru.

About CIP:CIP is part of the CGIAR global research partnership committed to transforming food, land, and water systemsina climate crisis. CIP’s mission is to develop and share science-based innovations in potato,sweetpotato, and other root and tuber crops. CIP partners with organizations in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to strengthen agri-food systems and provide economic, social, and nutritional benefits, especially for women and youth. We integrate social and biophysical sciences to address complex challenges in food and agriculture. For more information, please visit https://cipotato.org/about/.

Key responsibilities:

  • Supporting the execution andrefinementofAI-assisted workflows to support systematic literature reviews, to summarize large volumes of documents and reports, and to extract and organize scientific information.

  • Using AI tools to enrich and standardize metadata (subject tagging, keyword extraction, draft abstracts) to improve discoverability and interoperability, in line with CGIAR metadata standards.

  • Documenting these workflows as repeatable, shareable procedures (step-by-step SOPs and prompt templates) that the Knowledge Management team can reuse.

  • Supporting the validation ofAI-generated outputs against source documents and institutional standards, flagging errors, gaps andpossible bias, and applyingresponsible-AIpractices.

  • Prioritizing and digitizing high-value historical and current CIPdocuments andapplyingOCRso they become machine-readable.

  • Supporting thestructuringand description ofdigitized content (clean text, metadata, provenance)following FAIR and AI-readiness principlesandpreparing content forpotencialuse in the“Ask Papa” assistant and other AI knowledge tools.

  • Quality-checking OCR output and organizing files andcollectionsso they are ready for ingestion,preservationand incorporation into the institutional repository.

  • Uploading,depositingandmaintaininginstitutional publications inCGSpace, verifying the consistency of records.

  • Reviewing and improving metadata quality, ensuring standardization and interoperability per CGIAR metadata standards.

  • Supporting verification of editorial,legaland technical elements of publications (DOI, licenses,citationsand legal deposit) prior to incorporation into the repository.

  • Searching for and retrieving scientific literature in institutional resources (Web of Science, Cambridge Core, Springer, Nature, CABI).

  • Supporting the preparation ofmetricsreports and publication statistics.

  • Supporting the organization,mappingand cleanup of thematic collections within the repository.

  • Other related activities assigned within the framework of the area's functions.

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