Internship OSFG Policy and Technical Services Team

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) applies its Safeguard Policy Statement to all financed projects to avoid and manage potential impacts and risks to people and the environment. This involves screening and categorizing project risks, assessing and managing environmental and social risks, and monitoring projects in developing member countries during implementation. To enhance ADB’s policy implementation and risk management, a new Integrated Safeguard Management System (ISMS) has been developed and in the pilot testing stage. This system, when fully implemented, will have capacity to collect and report on key environmental and social indicators and geographic data from projects. However, a significant amount of data is still manually reviewed and processes, including environmental and social monitoring reports which ADB receives from project clients. To advance this, ADB is currently doing further scoping on additional data management and processing systems including potential for the use of Chat GPT-4 and other large language models to developing advanced reports with red-flag analysis as well as troubleshooting data and utilizing relevant insights from vast amounts of project data and reports. This internship assignment will engage a Data Analyst with knowledge of large language models and other advanced analytics to further scope and support ADB user applications. His/Her main outputs will include, but is not limited to, a detailed scoping on large language model applications, data mapping, report visualization, and application of appropriate advanced analytics for enhancing ADB’s environmental and social safeguard management and monitoring.
Summary of Job Description:
The Data Analyst / AI Specialist will work on the following assigned tasks: