Research
Lead Field Linguist
Lead documentation of Maa and Borana linguistic structures alongside community elders. Field linguistics background and fluency in at least one regional language required.
Kenya (with travel)Full-time
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Knowledge Graph Engineer
Design and build the ontologies that turn pastoral and ecological knowledge into queryable graphs. RDF / OWL experience strongly preferred.
Remote (Africa preferred)Full-time
Community
Community Liaison — Horn of Africa
Anchor partnerships with Somali and Borana communities. Run consent processes, coordinate benefit-sharing, and serve as the bridge between elders and research teams.
Ethiopia / KenyaFull-time
Engineering
Data Engineer
Build the pipelines that move structured field data into versioned, licensable datasets. Strong Python and cloud data warehouse experience.
RemoteFull-time
Research
Research Fellow (Pastoral Climate Memory)
Lead documentation of drought-forecasting traditions across three pastoral communities. Mixed-methods background, fieldwork-ready.
Nairobi / field12-month fellowship
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