Associate Director (Chief Data Officer), D-1, Florence, Italy

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each little one, in all places, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each little one, dedication

“Knowledge saves lives. Knowledge change lives.” Efficient use of knowledge is a significant catalyst in making sooner progress on the SDGs (Sustainable Growth Targets), powering the work of governments and all companions to raised fulfil the rights of the two.4 billion youngsters on the earth.

The Division of Knowledge, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) was established in 2019 to drive choice making and organizational studying, enhance effectiveness and achievement of outcomes of UNICEF and its companions to understand the rights and enhance the life of each little one. DAPM promotes knowledge and monitoring to realize transformative influence on youngsters’s lives.The Division is accountable for driving, shaping and guiding UNICEF’s evidence-informed evaluation, strategic planning, programme monitoring and organizational efficiency administration. As such, DAPM permits the group to ship on ends in a extra coherent method, primarily based on agile and contextualized programming course of, and on knowledge, proof, and evaluation, in addition to the applying of human-rights primarily based and results-based administration approaches.

Inside DAPM, the Knowledge Workforce (DaT) which consists of the places of work of Chief Knowledge Officer and Chief Statistician, helps the entire knowledge and analytical perform throughout UNICEF each to make UNICEF simpler and impactful in its work, and to help governments and different actors to make a much bigger distinction within the lives of youngsters.

On the one hand, the Chief Statistician’s Workplace leads on analytics of knowledge about youngsters to feed UNICEF programming and advocacy and produces priceless world public items of knowledge and statistics on youngsters. However, the Workplace of the Chief Knowledge Officer works throughout all UNICEF divisions and thru regional places of work to nation places of work each to assist UNICEF create and maintain (1) the safeguards to determine and scale back to a minimal the dangers and potential harms to youngsters and UNICEF workers, beneficiaries and donors  inherent in knowledge and digital know-how, to endure a accountable and secure digital and knowledge transformation; (2) a strong governance of all types of knowledge at UNICEF to allow all of UNICEF to leverage all related knowledge in service of higher choices and outcomes for kids.

The significance of the function of Chief Knowledge Officer is even larger within the fast-changing atmosphere through which ever extra highly effective AI (Synthetic Intelligence) instruments can be found, which require cautious curation and use of knowledge. The CDO (Chief Knowledge Officer) will work with UN (United Nations) system on “UN 2.0” which incorporates each higher digital transformation and strategic use of knowledge; contributing to the World Digital Commons, to supporting authorities use of knowledge via the SG’s Excessive Influence Initiative of Knowledge which is able to feed into the Summit of the Future, all as methods to affect broader choices and mechanisms to help the nice use of knowledge for kids.

Thus, the Chief Knowledge Officer’s Workplace/Workforce is accountable for:

1. Establishing an information coverage that encourages secure and environment friendly use of all types of knowledge in UNICEF, and maintain an information neighborhood, present instruments and construct capability to comply with that coverage course.
2. Growing and implementing knowledge governance to make sure that UNICEF’s knowledge ecosystem, together with use of AI, is efficient and secure.
3. Advocating for funding in knowledge for kids in related fora, inside and outdoors the group.

How will you make a distinction?

Underneath the supervision of the Director, DAPM, the Chief Knowledge Officer gives mental, managerial, technical and advocacy management in UNICEF for the secure use of cutting-edge instruments and platforms in addition to all types of knowledge at world, regional and nation ranges inside the general mission of UNICEF to advertise the rights of each little one. The put up can also be the senior place with authority in UNICEF to promulgate and uphold requirements of duty and ethics in knowledge produced or utilized by any a part of UNICEF. Moreover, the Chief Knowledge Officer leads and manages the crew, together with mobilization of the sources they should perform. The Chief Knowledge Officer’s Workplace/Workforce consists of the Knowledge Governance & Technique Unit (together with Knowledge Safety & Privateness) and the Knowledge Communications Unit. Additionally it is matrixed with the Programme Effectiveness Workforce’s Safeguarding Unit.

Underneath the supervision of the Director, DAPM, the Chief Knowledge Officer will:

1. Lead, handle, information and signify the technical work of DAPM’s Workplace of the CDO:
   1. Growth and implementation of an information coverage
      1. Full the Knowledge Coverage and related procedures, create the procedures, instruments, communities and steerage for efficient implementation of the Coverage on Private Knowledge Safety to strengthen UNICEF’s motion on Knowledge Safety
      2. Set up a Knowledge Governance mechanism (with or separate from Digital governance)
      3. Replicate problems with AI in Knowledge Coverage or help a brand new coverage on UNICEF’s use of AI
      4. Be certain that all data-related insurance policies embrace reference to knowledge in emergencies
      5. Drive implementation of insurance policies and governance throughout HQ divisions, RO (Regional Workplace) and CO (Nation Workplace) places of work. CDO will play a key function in build up the community of senior knowledge leaders to help organization-wide rollout of a harmonized knowledge method.
   2. Steerage and constructing of Knowledge Tradition and Capability as a part of DAPM’s technique on strengthening the Planning, Monitoring, Knowledge and Analytics capabilities; together with particular concerns for emergencies
      1. Help and information neighborhood and studying pathways to foster:
         1. Knowledge savviness, Knowledge management,
         2. Knowledge stewardship together with knowledge planning,
         3. Knowledge analytical capabilities (led by Chief Statistician)
         4. Knowledge advocacy and communication
      2. Oversee the transformation of knowledge motion planning in each workplace, hooked into the nation programme administration cycle, and centered round cross-functional groups that ship precedence use instances for kids.
   3. UNICEF knowledge structure and administration together with knowledge sharing
      1. Lead UNICEF pondering and design of knowledge structure to make sure knowledge are safely obtainable throughout UNICEF to help analytical wants – this in shut collaboration with ICTD (Data and Communication Know-how Division) as they develop or assessment digital methods
      2. Help and information the roll out and additional improvement of instruments and insurance policies to help grasp knowledge administration
      3. Set up coverage and steerage, and the place vital direct technical recommendation, to enhance knowledge high quality to serve knowledge wants together with knowledge prepared to be used within the improvement of AI methods and functions
      4. Guarantee knowledge governance together with knowledge duty are embedded in knowledge administration instruments and practices by all actors in UNICEF, information the collection of knowledge administration instruments to serve implementation of knowledge governance
      5. Information organising of buildings to help knowledge administration inside every workplace (bringing collectively knowledge, monitoring, ICT/T4D, emergency and programme practitioners and sharing their knowledge)
   4. Stronger knowledge duty throughout all ranges of the group
      1. Guarantee all of the coverage atmosphere (and instruments to help its implementation) on safety of non-public and non-personal but delicate knowledge, together with a reference stage for decision of points
      2. Help RD4C being mainstreamed into planning and implementation of knowledge actions together with in emergency conditions and protracted humanitarian conditions
   5. Accountable use of AI and different analytical instruments utilizing Huge Knowledge
      1. Information use instances on implementation of AI in
         1. inner methods (working in shut collaboration with HQ Divisions),
         2. UNICEF programming, and
         3. advocacy with Governments to make AI work for kids
      2. Help intersection of the statisticians in DAPM, Programme Group, the Centre of Excellence for Tech for Growth, the Workplace of Innovation to be used of AI in programmes
      3. Help the Frontier Knowledge Community bringing data and different sources into UNICEF to assist nations, and FDN nodes and communities to construct capability inside UNICEF
   6. Immediately and with companions, contribute to improvement of nationwide knowledge methods to perform in emergency in addition to improvement conditions to:
      1. incorporate RD4C rules and instruments
      2. enhance Administrative Knowledge Techniques (joint with Chief Statistician and Programme Group)
      3. Frontier Knowledge and associated analytics (via nodes collectively with Chief Statistician)
2. Lead inside, throughout and outdoors the Group on Knowledge governance, advocacy, data administration and communication:
   1. Lead knowledge components of related UNICEF our bodies akin to Digital Transformation Board; World Administration Workforce; AI Steering Committee
   2. Characterize UNICEF as main knowledge professional in exterior fora akin to these engaged on a worldwide system of knowledge governance, AI governance, Statistical knowledge and metadata trade (SDMX), digital/knowledge commons and lead strategic positioning of UNICEF on knowledge points inside and past the UN system together with help to merchandise of the Chief Statistician’s workplace
   3. Lead UNICEF’s data administration and communities on knowledge together with via mechanisms such because the Proof Helpdesk and SharePoint web site; contributing to inner and exterior knowledge-sharing fora; and guiding improvement of analytical capacities in nation places of work to convey collectively totally different data streams to handle nation points
3. Handle, nurture and develop DAPM’s Workplace of the CDO and its folks:
   1. Folks Administration
      1. Handle and preserve the best high quality requirements for environment friendly and efficient operation of the Unit, together with recruitment, orientation and supervision {of professional} and help workers, formulation and monitoring of the annual workplan, administration and monitoring of the funds together with approval of journey plans, fulfilment of reporting necessities and oversight of day-to-day points as required
   2. Useful resource mobilization
      1. Determine, develop, pursue and safe funding alternatives for UNICEF’s knowledge technique work with multilateral and bilateral businesses, non-governmental organizations, non-public sector foundations and different donors, all along side D&A Part
      2. Advocate and plan for distribution of funds inside UNICEF to help this new and essential space of labor
      3. Oversee administration of the related budgets and supervise the reporting to make sure well timed fulfilment of donor reporting necessities

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have…

• A complicated college diploma (grasp’s or increased) in any data-related self-discipline (together with – however not restricted to – knowledge science, statistics, economics, demographics) which might be an MBA. Particular, formal coaching and/or data across the ideas of Knowledge Governance, Use, Safety and Privateness is taken into account an asset.
• A minimal of 13 (13) years of progressively accountable expertise at nationwide and worldwide ranges in technology and use of statistics or different knowledge in addition to different areas that might embrace utilized statistics, info methods and knowledge interpretation and championing the secure use of these knowledge for influence.  A minimum of 6 out of the 13 years required in senior management and administration positions required.
• Demonstrated expertise as an information skilled with demonstrated capacity to indicate the worth of knowledge to the “enterprise” (whether or not in public or non-public sector organizations), and has labored to maximise that worth for higher outcomes.
• Demonstrated expertise working with and retaining a very good working relationship with all types of knowledge tech, from knowledge administration to evaluation, from storage to communication.
• Expertise in and understanding of methods to create and maintain a system of knowledge governance which is enabling for the accountable and moral assortment, evaluation and use of knowledge.
• Demonstrated capability to guide groups.
• Expertise with management in managing related multi-partner tasks and partnerships.
• Expertise managing and influencing change in a big group amongst companions and stakeholders outdoors of direct supervision scope.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.
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For each Little one, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability(CRITAS)underpin every thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness(3)Drive to realize outcomes for influence(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others(8)Nurtures, leads and manages folks.

Through the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

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We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
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Remarks:

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