26-20 Information Management Intern

Th e International Potato Center (CIP) is looking for one ( 1 ) Informa tion Management Intern t o 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 https://cipotato.org/about/ .

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting the execution and refin ement 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 ta gging, 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 v alidat ion of AI-generated outputs against source documents and institutional standards, flagging errors, gaps and possible bias , a nd applying responsible-AI practices.

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

• Supporting the s tructuring and d escription of digitized content (clean text, metadata, provenance) following  FAIR and AI-read iness 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.