AWARD African Women in Data Science Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2025

Applications are open for the AWARD African Women in Data Science Fellowship 2025. This well timed initiative responds to the rising demand for knowledge-pushed management to deal with the urgent challenges of meals insecurity and local weather change throughout Africa. They invite bold African girls with foundational expertise in knowledge-associated work and a robust motivation to deepen their expertise and apply knowledge science for transformative affect in agrifood methods and local weather resilience.

The Fellowship goals to reinforce the management and technical capabilities of African girls professionals using knowledge science to foster inclusive, proof-primarily based innovation in agrifood methods and local weather resilience. Building on AWARD’s confirmed monitor document in cultivating African girls leaders in agricultural analysis and growth, this system adapts the Fellowship mannequin to satisfy the calls for of an evolving knowledge and expertise panorama.

Fellowship Experience

Inspired by the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Fellowship mannequin, the African Women in Data Science Fellowship affords a rigorous 12-month profession-accelerating journey for African girls working on the intersection of knowledge science, agriculture, and local weather resilience.

As a Fellow, you’ll interact in the next core actions:

• Participate in a 7-day, face-to-face girls’s management course designed to strengthen your confidence, affect, and capability to guide knowledge-pushed options (November 2025).
• Join a 2-week immersive in-person knowledge science coaching course overlaying Python programming, machine studying, knowledge wrangling, visualization, and statistical evaluation (February 2026).
• Complete a 2-month digital course targeted on the application of knowledge science instruments to actual-world challenges in agrifood methods and local weather resilience (April – May 2026).
• Design and implement an information-pushed capstone challenge addressing a sensible problem in agriculture or local weather. You will obtain modest seed funding and technical steerage for challenge execution (February – September 2026).
• Undertake a aggressive brief-time period institutional placement (1–3 months), often called Advanced Science Training (AST), inside your home nation. This placement supplies an OPPORTUNITY to apply your expertise in an actual-world setting and additional deepen your technical experience (May – September 2026).
• Receive ongoing steerage from senior knowledge science professionals by structured mentoring relationships, together with orientation, check-ins, and aim setting (March – November 2026).
• Participate in data-sharing classes, storytelling actions, {and professional} engagement alternatives by AWARD’s community (Throughout the fellowship).

By the tip of the Fellowship, contributors will probably be higher geared up to guide knowledge-pushed initiatives, advocate for inclusive innovation, and function seen position fashions in Africa’s rising knowledge science and growth ecosystem.

Eligibility

• Open to feminine residents of one of many following international locations: Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, or Malawi.
• Hold at the least a Masters diploma in one of many following: Applied Statistics, Biostatistics, Agricultural Engineering, Biosystems Engineering, Agricultural Economics, Data Science, Bioinformatics or associated disciplines.
• Have 5 to 10 years {of professional} expertise in an information-associated position, ideally linked to agriculture, local weather, or growth sectors.
• Demonstrate intermediate proficiency in English (studying, writing, and talking).
• Be dedicated to full participation in the 12-month program, together with on-line and in individual actions.
• Resident in an African nation all through the Fellowship interval.
• Is not a specific Fellow for some other Fellowships provided by AWARD.

Application

Application Deadline: July 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM East Africa Time (GMT+3). Applications will NOT be accepted after this deadline.

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For extra data, go to AWARD Fellowship.