• Country: Kenya
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNV
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-01-18

Details
Mission and objectives
The UNDP Accelerator Labs are part of UNDP’s drive to be an incubator for the future. To accelerate progress towards the 2030 Agenda, we need to be fast and curious. The Accelerator Labs are designed to close the gap between the current practices of international development in an accelerated pace of change. They model a new capability to make breakthroughs on the future of development: inequality, decarbonization, the 4th industrial revolution and new forms of governance.

Context
We are seeking a team of volunteers to develop a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) platform that focuses on digitizing hard copy documents and leveraging AI for content analysis. The platform aims to present digitized content in a user-friendly format to facilitate efficient decision-making processes.

Task type
Data processing

Task description
Create an AI-powered chatbot integral to our decision support platform by:
• Designing and developing a conversational AI-powered chatbot to interact with users.
• Integrating the chatbot seamlessly into the platform to deliver analyzed content and assist users in accessing relevant data
• Implementing natural language understanding (NLU) and generation (NLG) for effective communication and content delivery.
• Ensuring the chatbot’s scalability, performance, and responsiveness to user queries
• Collaborating with the development team to integrate the chatbot’s functionalities into the user interface

Requirements
Required experience
• Proficiency in chatbot development frameworks/tools (e.g., Dialogflow, Rasa, Microsoft Bot Framework).
• Experience in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning for chatbot conversation handling
• Strong understanding of AI-driven chatbot architectures and methodologies
• Ability to integrate chatbot functionalities into existing software applications
• Problem-solving skills to address challenges in user interaction and content delivery through the chatbot

Languages
English, Level: Fluent, Required

Other information
Inclusivity statement
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.

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