Innovation Manager (Innovation Strategy and Capacity Building), P-4, Fixed-Term, Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden (Post #117601)

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each little one, all over the place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each little one, innovate…

The Workplace of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyse UNICEF’s and all its companions’ experience and sources in opposition to key children-outcomes bottlenecks, with a view to repeatedly ideate and scale the simplest options with transformational potential at scale to realize the child-related SDGs. The workplace is doing this by repeatedly exploring new methods of accelerating outcomes for kids, investing throughout a variety of early stage options, and harnessing inner and exterior experience in direction of repeatedly iterating and finetuning probably the most promising options for kids via a scientific portfolio administration strategy, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation power, knowhow and sources from intergovernmental, multilateral, personal sector and non-governmental organizations. This takes place throughout 160 nation workplaces.

How will you make a distinction?

Underneath the overall steering and route of the P5 Senior Advisor Innovation (Portfolio, Tradition and Scale) and in shut collaboration with related Senior Advisers throughout OOI, the submit is accountable for:

• Main and oversee implementation of OOI’s technique for innovation to construct tradition and capability in any respect ranges of the group to innovate and to successfully diffuse new improvements.
• Main capability and studying area engagement, want discovering and mapping to determine and prioritize areas for innovation studying and capability constructing intervention by endeavor sense making of the expressed and unexpressed wants.
• Lead and coordinate the design, improvement and use of latest technique improvement and capability constructing instruments, experiences and sources following design pondering, user-centred strategy.
• Establishing and managing a community of inner and exterior innovators for good.
• Coordinating with the OOI Communication Workforce on their actions to lift consciousness, promote and collect help for this data administration and capacity-building alternatives and sources. Have interaction in public talking alternatives to spotlight OOI strategy and work.
• Participating actively and community within the world ecosystem of innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and associated areas to horizon scan, supply studying and capability improvement sources, and train thought management to place and diffuse UNICEF’s innovation studying work.
• Managing and supporting innovation-related mechanisms that allow UNICEF workplaces to entry technical help, together with via an Experience Brokerage mannequin i) as non-financial engagement inside a partnership via the OOI Partnerships workforce beneath the P5 Partnerships and Useful resource Mobilization; ii) by way of deep experience relationships via the Innovation Nodes modality beneath the P5 Senior Adviser (HQ & Nodes), and iii) via immediately managing modalities corresponding to OOI’s HCD Lengthy Time period Agreements.
• Collaborating with OOI communication workforce on shared actions geared toward nurturing and strengthening a tradition of innovation throughout UNICEF via inner and exterior communications channels.
• Main innovation incubation actions and offering mentorship help to colleagues requesting it in nation workplaces
• Have interaction actively and community within the world ecosystem of innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and associated areas (together with subject-matter particular areas as needed with related Hub groups), to allow steady consciousness of present and rising material and studying approaches (e.g., experiential studying, digitally enabled and so forth) on this house. Additionally participating with the aim of figuring out approaches, sources, and sources that UNICEF can undertake, adapt and evolve.
• Handle and help innovation-related mechanisms that allow UNICEF workplaces to entry technical help associated to tradition, capability and engagement, together with managing OOI’s Human Centred Design LTAs and creating new partnerships and constructions to help the work.
• Present thought management to place UNICEF’s innovation work publicly; and determine and allow alternatives for UNICEF- designed and developed supplies to be shared as world public items the place related.
• Search and use alternatives to deal with capability constructing wants of presidency and implementing companions as an extension of the sources developed and/or inclusion within the studying experiences, the place that is related.
• Collaborate with OOI communication workforce on shared actions in respective annual work plans geared toward nurturing and strengthening a tradition of innovation throughout UNICEF via inner channels (together with the innovation e-newsletter, ICON, OOI SharePoint, Yammer and so forth) and exterior communications channels (together with releases, unicef.org, social media channels and so forth.).
• Mobilize funds to help incubation, pipeline improvement and capability constructing initiatives together with SPARK incubator. 
• Handle a small workforce of pros and consultants to make sure instruments and platforms developed are used and improved, notably on the subject of coordination throughout HQ, Regional and Nation workplaces.
• Plan and undertake mission journey to essential nation workplaces the place demand for help is made by senior nation administration.

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

• A sophisticated college diploma (Grasp’s or larger) in one of many following fields is required: Social Science or Humanities, Innovation-related area, Worldwide Relations, Enterprise Administration, or one other related technical area.

• *A primary College Diploma in a related area mixed with 2 further years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.

• A minimal of eight (8) years of related skilled expertise is required at nationwide and worldwide ranges within the areas of innovation and/or social and financial improvement and cooperation.
• Demonstrated experience in innovation apply, spanning start-up to scaling improvements, particularly within the social and/or improvement sectors.
• Demonstrated mastery in design pondering / human-centred design particularly as utilized to improvement programming is required.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing studying experiences from cradle to grave.
• Expertise of inner communications and / or tradition change is an asset.
• Expertise working at UN useful however not important.
• Expertise in public advocacy, media engagements, and talent to supply mental management property on innovation is an asset.

• Fluency in English is required. Information and fluency of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For each Youngster, you exhibit…

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

UNICEF competencies required for this submit 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 individuals

Throughout the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.

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

Remarks

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background test.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff which are thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the correct to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or needed inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any cause.

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.