Job Description :

The International Potato Center (CIP) is looking for one (1) Information Management Intern to provide support to Digital & Data Department in Lima, Peru.

About CIP: CIP is part of the CGIAR global research partnership committed to transforming food, land, and water systems in a 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 .

Key responsibilities:

- Supporting the execution and refinement of AI-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 of AI-generated outputs against source documents and institutional standards, flagging errors, gaps and possible bias, and applying responsible-AI practices.

- Prioritizing and digitizing high-value historical and current CIP documents and applying OCR so they become machine-readable.





- Supporting the structuring and description of digitized content (clean text, metadata, provenance) following FAIR and AI-readiness principles and preparing content for potencial use in the “Ask Papa” assistant and other AI knowledge tools.

- Quality-checking OCR output and organizing files and collections so they are ready for ingestion, preservation and incorporation into the institutional repository.

- Uploading, depositing and maintaining institutional publications in CGSpace, verifying the consistency of records.

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

- Supporting verification of editorial, legal and technical elements of publications (DOI, licenses, citations and 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 of metrics reports and publication statistics.

- Supporting the organization, mapping and cleanup of thematic collections within the repository.

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

Requirements

What are we looking for?

- Graduated in Information Science, Library Science, Information Management, or related fields.





- Understanding of open access, open science and institutional repository management.

- Familiarity with AI/LLM tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude or similar) and basic prompting, with an interest in applying them responsibly to knowledge work.

- Interest in or exposure to document digitization and OCR, and in structuring content so it is machine-readable.

- Command of office software; knowledge of metadata, digital repositories or bibliographic-management tools is desirable.

- Intermediate-level English proficiency, enabling the reading and comprehension of scientific literature.

- Familiarity with CGSpace, ORCID or data-analysis tools is valued.

Benefits

Why should you consider this opportunity?

- CIP is a general and reputable international organization that has a strong, state-of-the-art R&D; background.

- CIP is dedicated to achieving food security, improving nutrition and well-being, and gender equity for poor people in roots, tubers farming and food systems in the developing world.

- CIP is a member of the CGIAR, a global partnership that unites international organizations engaged in research about food security. CGIAR research aims to reduce rural poverty, increase food security, improve human health and nutrition, and sustainable management of natural resources.

What are we offering?

- CIP provides the opportunity to work in a prestigious international organization.

- Excellent working environment.

- In and out buses for different routes in Lima

- Comprehensive insurance coverage.

- 6 months-term agreements with possibility of renewal.

- Work in an equal and diverse workplace.

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🏢 International Potato Center
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