- Where
- Nairobi, Kenya · Abuja, Nigeria
- Level
- Mid
The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The Team
The Africa team works to enable the foundation’s ambitious goals of scaling evidence-based interventions that target a range of disease and socio-economic conditions which are endemic across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
The team implements its responsibility through direct country engagement to deploy interventions and delivery models, and by building the partner architecture to replicate successful interventions and models across multiple countries. The team also works closely with key continental and regional organizations to help accelerate implementation across multiple geographies.
The AI Fellows Program
The AI Fellows Program at the Gates Foundation is dedicated to accelerating the responsible and impactful use of AI in global health, development, and education. Our goal is to attract top-tier, mission-aligned AI talent to drive innovation in these areas. You will be joining the first Africa-based AI Fellows cohort where you work alongside our Africa team, our partners and government counterparts to bring AI tooling to clarify and make decisions that matter most. Each fellow will be assigned 1–2 high-priority projects that will help accelerate achieving the foundation’s mission.
Please apply by November 11th to be considered for the Africa cohort.
Note: This is a 12-month limited term employment position based in Abuja, Nigeria / Addis Ababa, Ethiopia / Johannesburg, South Africa / Nairobi, Kenya. Candidates must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship and relocation support will not be provided.
Sample project areas include:
Build decision-support tools across multiple African countries that unify disparate financing flow systems, conducts a periodic bottleneck diagnostics and supports informed decision-making.
Design and prototype a solution to reduce stockouts of essential medicines at district and facility level, targeting countries facing drawdown of US Government-funded logistics management capacity.
Strengthen health planning and supply chain systems by building an AI decision-support tool that ranks interventions against budget ceilings and traces prioritized interventions through procurement and cash release, developing a predictive analytics layer to forecast stock-out risk and flag redistribution opportunities before expiry
Your Role
The AI Fellows Program at the Gates Foundation is designed to accelerate the responsible and impactful use of AI in global health, development, and education. Our goal is to attract top-tier, mission-aligned AI talent to drive innovation in these areas. Building on the success of our US and India-based cohorts, we are expanding our program to Africa. As a Gates AI Fellow, you will join a prestigious cohort applying AI for public good and gain career-defining experience, access to Gates’ powerful network, and exposure to senior leadership.
This role offers the unique opportunity to collaborate across multiple divisions within the Foundation—including Global Health (GH), Gender Equality (GE), Global Development (GD), and Global Growth & Opportunity (GGO)— to bridge the possibilities of frontier AI technology with the realities of deployment to…