Head of Exploration (Nationals Only)

Background and Organizational Context

The UNDP Strategic Plan embraces the complexity of improvement and commits the group to serving to international locations discover sooner, extra sturdy options to attain Agenda 2030. Necessary improvement traits like urbanization, local weather change, and rising inequalities pose important challenges on our path to attain the 2030 agenda of reaching the Sustainable Growth Targets (SDGs).

UNDP has begun incubating plenty of strategic initiatives aimed toward guaranteeing UNDP is ‘match for function’ to ship a brand new technology of options according to the challenges the world faces. One such key strategic initiative is the UNDP Accelerator Lab Community which operates as a part of UNDP’s sustainable improvement providing.

US:

We’re constructing the most important and quickest studying international community on improvement challenges. We’ve already arrange 60 labs in 78 international locations) embedded inside UNDP’s international structure and nation platforms. We are actually recruiting for a second cohort of 30 labs to be primarily based in UNDP around the globe. We use the ability of the group, machine studying and distributed resolution making to help companions to grasp issues, develop new options, promote extra inclusive resolution making, and supply higher oversight of what’s performed. We establish grassroots options and stretch their potential to speed up improvement. We apply experimentation intently with authorities companions to develop this as a mode of working to the scale back prices of large-scale public sector reforms. Experimentation helps us be taught whether or not explicit assumptions are correct earlier than deploying options at scale, particularly within the quickly evolving contexts that usually dominate improvement progress.

Place Goal 

You:

You might be enthusiastic about beginning, designing and managing actions, direct engagement with native communities and collaboration throughout international networks. You might be pushed by studying new issues, determining how they work and translating them throughout sectors. You inform tales of emergent options and also you gravitate to fixing international improvement challenges.

You may have a pure inclination to interdisciplinarity, cross-cultural mindset and cross-sectoral expertise with the cosmopolitan attraction for variety. You might be pushed by a robust sense of function and dedication to make change occur and a eager eye to establish rising alternatives and ‘on the edge’ traits. You might be open to discovery and exploration, able to articulating insights and concepts by way of visible pondering, open to serendipity and discovery but are pragmatic and constructive in working with public sector authorities. You might be snug with ambiguity, able to zooming out for context and zooming in for content material and execution- sharp in pursuit of goals, quick at adapting and altering course when wanted. You have excellent competencies in program and portfolio administration, are comfortable with decision-making processes and dynamics of various fashions of governance.

You might be curious, a pure strategic thinker and a gifted doer. You perceive methods, the great, the unhealthy and the ugly, and are able to working inside bureaucracies to make change, leverage know-how to increase, improve and multiply exploration, discovery and execution. You are digitally savvy, you hack instruments, and you’re eager to be a half of a giant international group exhibiting United Nations values.

Key Duties and Accountabilities:

1. Horizon scanning and intelligence for the Accelerator Lab

• Establish, visualize and talk rising improvement traits, knowledge, applied sciences and points with a selected give attention to the perimeters and “beneath the radar display screen” occasions, alternatives and gamers, and systemically map their impacts on economic system, setting, society, and livelihoods of the poorest.
• Establish new sources of proof and insights, analyze and visualize patterns in unstructured sources of information, current new insights in accessible and complete methods to allow sensemaking and evaluation.
• Proactively discover and establish the brand new strategies/approaches and frontier information to deal with improvement challenges, collaborate with the Experimentation result in flip these into studying choices for addressing particular coverage points within the nation.
• Present technical steerage for horizon scanning, foresight and knowledge evaluation for colleagues and companions.
• Contribute to the formulation of the Accelerator Lab service traces to the UNDP Nation Programme primarily based on findings from horizon scanning, methods’ mapping, and native information.

2. Tapping into new knowledge sources

• Set up partnerships with personal sector firms together with cell community operators amongst others to acquire entry to anonymized knowledge units that can be used for sustainable improvement.
• Reveal by way of exploratory checks the utility of new knowledge sources for UNDP’s improvement work.
• Create partnerships for analyses of real-time and different knowledge to higher inform choices and insurance policies.
• Design and ship workshops, instruments, or platforms that faucet into the collective intelligence of communities and mobilise motion.
• Proactively handle dangers by utilizing knowledge and know-how, together with these associated to ethics and privateness.
• Rework unstructured knowledge units into insights for UNDP and companions.

3.)  Working-out loud

• Share findings from the exploration on future traits, new methodologies/approaches, potential partnerships, and others inside UNDP and with companions;
• Proactively use weblog posts and social media to share insights, entice companions and assist place Accelerator Lab on the forefront of the exploration of latest traits.
• Liaise with UNDP’s international Accelerator Lab community and share learnings and insights from the country-specific expertise
• Collectively with the CO, help lab companions to develop an rising pipeline of new initiatives, help different actions associated to the design and operation of the Lab

4.) Organizational studying and interface with the core enterprise of UNDP

• Set up instruments and partnerships to rework data into actionable intelligence
• Design and ship horizon scanning trainings for companions and UNDP, assist embed horizon scanning and a focus to the ‘edge’ actions within the CO and with the companions
• Work collectively with your Accelerator Lab colleagues and consultants to codify and advance the Accelerator Lab apply and exploration particularly.
• Arrange and implement knowledge-sharing and community occasions;
• Lead different actions associated to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab
• Design and ship partaking and significant strategies for reflection on studying from explorations

Anticipated Demonstration of Competencies

Core Competencies

Obtain Outcomes:  LEVEL 2: Scale up options and simplifies processes, balances pace and accuracy in doing work

Assume Innovatively:  LEVEL 2: Supply new concepts/open to new approaches, reveal systemic/built-in pondering

Study Repeatedly:  LEVEL 2: Go outdoors consolation zone, be taught from others and help their studying

Adapt with Agility:  LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new conditions, contain others in change course of 

Act with Willpower: LEVEL 2: In a position to persevere and take care of a number of sources of stress concurrently

Interact and Companion:  LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, carry folks collectively, construct/preserve coalitions/partnerships

Allow Variety and Inclusion  LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge variations, considers in resolution making  

Individuals Administration Competencies:

Construct an Enabling Office

Create a working setting the place persons are engaged and wish to do their finest; empower and permits workforce members to carry out and have a optimistic office expertise. Promote truthfully, openness, belief and psychological security and create alternatives to innovate and be taught. Recruit and promotes people primarily based upon goal measures and meritocracy; acknowledge and utilise the expertise of others Encourage collective motion and integration.

UNDP Individuals Administration Competencies can be discovered in the devoted site.

Practical Competencies

System Pondering: Potential to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated parts coexist inside an general course of or system, and to think about how altering one factor can affect on different elements of the system                                         

Information Technology: Potential to analysis and switch data into helpful information, related for context, or aware of a said want 

Story Telling: Potential to empathise with folks’s perceptions, motivations, emotions and psychological fashions and craft narratives to construct an emotive argument for change accordingly. Potential to current knowledge, insights or data in compelling methods to mobilise sources, expertise or motion. Potential to decide on media and channels that’s match for function to achieve particular goal audiences.        

Knowledge Evaluation: Potential to extract, analyse and visualize knowledge (together with Actual-Time Knowledge) to type significant insights and assist efficient resolution making 

Collective Intelligence Design: Potential to design, lead or handle processes that assist a collective to grow to be smarter collectively by bringing collectively numerous teams of individuals, knowledge, and know-how. Potential to outline and articulate why and the way collective intelligence can add worth to improvement programming (understanding issues; discovering options; resolution making and mobilising motion; monitoring progress in actual time, studying and adapting) With the ability to combine various kinds of knowledge (realtime, ‘ground- fact’ and novel knowledge) to unlock recent insights. Perceive pointers and ideas round knowledge privateness, ethics and safety. Improve variety of inputs – and look past the ‘regular suspects’, capacity to navigate and handle a wide range of actors, respect the range in views, opinions, experience. Potential to facilitate platforms or periods the place folks can contribute by offering their views and concepts independently and freely. Being people-centred: guarantee folks perceive and might decide how their knowledge is used. Suggestions inputs and insights to empower folks, don’t extract knowledge.     

Required Abilities and Expertise

Schooling 

• Grasp’s diploma in Social sciences, Knowledge science, Statistics, Physics, Pc Science, Enterprise Intelligence, or associated area and minimal of two years {of professional} expertise in improvement programming or coverage; social innovation; partnership constructing; engagement (private and non-private sector) and/or useful resource mobilization
• Bachelor’s diploma in Social sciences, Knowledge science, Statistics, Physics, Pc Science, Enterprise Intelligence, or associated area and minimal of 4 years {of professional} expertise in improvement programming or coverage; social innovation; partnership constructing; engagement (private and non-private sector) and/or useful resource mobilization

Expertise, Information, and Abilities

Checklist:

• Skilled expertise in improvement programming or coverage and social innovation;
• Demonstrated capability in horizon scanning;
• Demonstrated capability in knowledge evaluation and visualization.

Expertise in following areas is fascinating however not needed:

• Confirmed skilled information and expertise in social innovation approaches such as Techniques Pondering, Ethnography, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence Design, Citizen Science, Constructive Deviance, Social Community Evaluation, Synthetic Intelligence/Machine Studying
• Skilled expertise in partnership constructing and engagement (public and personal sector)
• Demonstrated capability to use open knowledge, cell knowledge, geospatial knowledge, drone & satellite tv for pc knowledge, citizen knowledge for informing coverage making, strategic planning, or programme design.
• Confirmed skilled information and expertise in at least one of the following: Future pondering and Foresight, Design Analysis, and Techniques Mapping;
• Key consciousness of key international and regional traits;
• Demonstrated entry to networks of edge innovators.

Languages

Proficiency in written and spoken English is required.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

• Candidates chosen pursuant to this emptiness could also be topic to UNDP’s coverage on Probation upon task.

Disclaimer

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Notice: UNDP reserves the fitting to pick a number of candidates from this emptiness announcement.  We may additionally retain functions and take into account candidates making use of to this publish for different comparable positions with UNDP on the similar grade degree and with comparable job description, expertise, and academic necessities.

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