Policy and Strategic Development for Digital-enabled Programming
Digital Transformation and Innovation Strategies
Provide leadership to development of DX and innovation strategies at RO and CO level; including governance and management, Innovation Portfolio approaches, partnerships and resource mobilization, assessment of gaps, opportunities and scale-up strategy in support of CO priorities.
Participation in programme and management processes
Integrate innovation into the programme planning lifecycle. Align with programme priorities (e.g. AWP) and attend planning meetings (PCM) to exercise functional accountabilities.
Leadership and Quality Assurance
Oversee development and quality assurance during planning and deployment of innovation initiatives; participate in establishing and maintaining standards, documentation and support mechanisms.
Manage the Innovation function, and provide technical and programmatic support:
Business Relationship Management
Manage Business and Programme Relationship services to define high-level requirements; document and match requirements and guide the design, development and deployment of appropriate Innovative solutions.
Portfolio Coordination
Lead deployment of the Innovation portfolio approach to solutions prioritised for UNICEF programming
Support and assist design of Innovation interventions
Provide support and technical assistance to the Country Office in the identification, selection, concept design, deployment and sustainability of Innovation interventions to address bottlenecks towards the achievement of programme results.
Identify and assess new Innovations
Assist programme sections to identify and assess new initiatives, or new phases of on-going initiatives, with immediate potential to improve UNICEF programming.
Solution procurement and evaluation
Assist the review of technical solutions to ensure UNICEF standards are followed; contribute to project management processes, generation and review of terms of reference and vendor selection.
Deployment advice and support
Advisory and assistance with implementation strategy, including technical oversight, troubleshooting and the documentation of challenges and resolutions.
Design thinking
Support human/user-centred design methods to enable user-acceptance testing, evaluation, documentation and analysis.
Engage and maintain partnerships and networks
Engage and maintain partnerships and networks
Develop partnerships and networks with local solution providers, innovators, NGOs, cultural and religious organisations, the private sector, local media and academia to build and provide a space to nurture and test innovative initiatives and build local capacity.
Advocacy and communications
Represent the country office in external, inter-agency or partner forums on Innovation.
Proposal and partnership development
Identify opportunities for resource mobilisation and new partnerships and lead proposal and partnership development efforts in close collaboration with other Regional Offices, where applicable.
Provide advice and support to programme partners
Provide technical and operational support to a wide range of stakeholders and partners on UNICEF policies, practices, standards and norms.
Standards and procedures for ownership
Work with stakeholders to help develop standards, procedures and partnerships for Innovation interventions and their transition to relevant Government and Civil Society Institutions.
Transfer and skill-sharing for programme partners
Build and sustain effective close working partnerships with government counterparts and national stakeholders through active sharing and transfer of knowledge, skills and tools to foster and facilitate innovation-enabled programming.
Document localized partners and profiles
Develop a catalogue of potential country specific Innovation partners and their profiles/areas of engagement to promote and enhance UNICEF goals for outcomes for children
Knowledge Management
Share lessons learned
Identify, capture, synthesize and share lessons learned from Innovation for integration into broader knowledge development planning, advocacy and communication efforts.
Landscape mapping
Maintain an inventory of Innovation interventions, assets, resources and networks.
Monitoring, evaluation and learning
Work with PME to ensure documentation and clear monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for innovation including baseline data collection, on-going monitoring, as well as first phase data collection and analysis.
Contribute to Peer Support Networks
Contribute, share and collaborate with Office of Innovation, with regional and global innovation networks and activities.
Capacity Building
Data analysis for evidence generation
Build capacity of programme staff in analysing the large amounts of data generated through innovation initiatives including the use of data visualization techniques and analytics tools.
Co-create appropriate solutions
Work directly with section chiefs to co-create strategies on how innovation can support the country programme.
Provide training to stakeholders and end-users
Participate as resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competencies, capacity and knowledge within the programmes; train UNICEF staff, partners, government counterparts and other end users in innovation approaches and methodologies.
Build awareness around Innovation & Frontier Technology
Develop capabilities within Country Office on appropriate use of frontier technology and innovations such as UAVs, wearables, IoTs, mobile money, blockchain etc.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
Education : Advanced university degree in International Affairs, International Relations, International Development, Business Management, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management, or related practical experience
Work Experience: A minimum of five years of professional experience in ICT management, business analysis or similar, in a large international organization and/or corporation.
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