Innovation Manager (Strategic Design), P-4, Fixed-Term, Office of Innovation, Learning Hub, Helsinki, Finland (Post #127455)

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

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each youngster, innovate

The Workplace of Innovation (OOI) works to catalyse UNICEF’s and all its companions’ experience and sources to resolve key challenges for kids, with a view to repeatedly ideate and scale the best 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 inside and exterior experience in the direction of repeatedly iterating and finetuning essentially the most promising options for kids by way of a scientific portfolio administration strategy, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation vitality, knowhow and sources from intergovernmental, multilateral, non-public sector and non-governmental fora (assume tank, academia).

The UNICEF Studying Innovation Hub would be the residence of the architects of the way forward for studying. It will likely be established in Helsinki and supported by the Authorities of Finland, a world chief in schooling and know-how, with the aim of bringing collectively the worldwide neighborhood to construct sport altering options in schooling, that may assist clear up the training disaster in addition to think about and develop various studying futures for all kids.

The UNICEF Studying Innovation Hub will help the Reimagine Training initiative by way of accelerating equitable entry to world class digital studying options by testing and scaling frontier applied sciences & improvements hand in hand with UNICEF Nation Workplaces. On the identical time, it would create a secure playground for disruption, inviting UNICEF and the training neighborhood to search for options outdoors the standard sphere and be part of tech entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, information ninjas, fiction writers, designers, enterprise leaders & others to discover new studying journeys, pedagogical approaches, areas, and artifacts that assist unleash every youngster’s full potential.  The UNICEF Studying Innovation Hub will carry to the entrance the voice of younger individuals in regards to the expertise they wish to purchase to change into entrepreneurs of their very own life and change into forward-thinking powerhouse that re-imagines and builds vivid various futures that turns studying into a captivating journey for all kids.

How will you make a distinction?

The incumbent will work underneath the final route of the Senior Adviser (Studying Innovation) as an skilled strategic design result in carry demonstrable design management and experience to key initiatives of the Studying Innovation Hub. A profitable candidate has the power to behave as a decisive design workforce lead, product proprietor, mentor, coach, workforce participant and accomplice, crafting considerate ideas pushed by strategic perception and demonstrating how unconventional considering can result in world-class sustainable options. You grasp the human centered design course of and methodologies inside and outside and are additionally capable of switch that data to the workforce by way of pointers, templates, and coaching. When wanted, you create prototypes, facilitate workshops, and supply design help as crucial, whereas preserving your eye on the Hub’s and OOI’s strategic targets. Additionally, you will supervise related employees and consultants and take OIC roles.

Below the steering of the Senior Advisor-Studying Innovation Hub, your key tasks will embrace:

1. Main the general strategic design for the Studying Innovation Hub working carefully with the Hub’s management workforce, combining design considering rules and methodologies with skillful downside fixing, creativity and facilitating collaboration with multidisciplinary groups to help the conclusion of the Hub’s mission and ship key actions. This entails:

• fusing the practices of design and technique to construction the impression of design at a strategic, operational, and organizational degree for the Hub and recognizing alternatives in unmet consumer wants,
• co-creating breakthrough services and products and making the Hub extra revolutionary and agile.
• working with the Hub’s multidisciplinary groups, oversee the combination of design processes, perceive higher the Hub’s consumer and consumer wants, and study from insights to create holistic methods in the direction of efficient implementation of the Hub’s actions and initiatives.
• Supporting the Studying Pioneers and Studying Explorers programmes of the Hub, together with the architects of digital studying futures workshops (utilizing future design considering methodologies), innovation camp, portfolio of edtech instruments, design workshops, monitoring and proof technology, and different actions.
• Main the design of the Studying Cupboard, a platform of curated edtech instruments, bringing it to life, working with Studying Cupboard Product Supervisor and the workforce supporting it, together with the service design facets for meant Studying Cupboard customers.
• Offering help and capability constructing to the Studying Hub’s portfolio initiatives.
• Working with the Hub groups, help the testing of merchandise or their prototypes at numerous phases to gather consumer suggestions and consider their progress. This includes designing and executing consumer testing classes, amassing suggestions information, and creating studies for speaking the knowledge gathered to enhance the product/initiative.
• producing consumer necessities, personas, journey maps, situations, flows, and so forth. to present form to and talk any preliminary concept(s) for the Studying Hub initiatives.

2. Constructing the skilled capability of the Studying Innovation Hub on design considering and help the event of recent providers choices and enhancements to present choices that align with the Hub’s mission.

• Design and ship trainings on design considering methodologies for the Studying Innovation Hub workforce and its companions, together with doubtlessly UNICEF Nation Workplaces to construct key skillsets in step with the Hub’s mission.
• Deliver concepts to life by way of an interactive, human-centric strategy and interact venture groups by way of your entire journey.
• Help the Hub groups in making use of analytical and demanding considering expertise to establish operational points or challenges that will have an effect on effectivity, productiveness, or collaboration, and use experience to assist generate options.
• Work with the World Studying Innovation Hub’s management workforce to help the event of recent service choices and enhancements to present choices that align with the Hub’s mission.

3. Integrating design-thinking processes and methodologies within the analysis, proof technology and evaluation for the Studying Innovation Hub initiatives.

• Develop analysis subject go to pointers for the Studying Innovation Hub, incorporating design rules and methodologies that can change into an integral element of the Hub’s nation visits and work with nations.
• Take part in subject visits and supply hands-on help in making use of the rules.
• Help analysis and evaluation for the Hub to gather helpful insights regarding consumer wants, sector(s) finest practices, and market/business developments.
• Advise and the place relevant lead on analysis methodologies integrating empathetic and intuitive approaches to assist establish alternatives and perceive the sectors the Hub works in to establish ache factors, preferences, and priorities. This contains help to analyzing analysis findings.
• Help and develop highly effective, impactful, and evidence-driven methods for the Hub and enterprise/investments instances for its initiatives working with the Partnership Specialist and OOI partnership workforce.
• Working with the Hub groups, help the identification, monitoring and information assortment of success metric/KPIs for the Hub’s key initiatives.
• Utilizing information visualization methods, help the Hub in presenting advanced data in motivational and intuitive methods which are simple to know.

4. Offering experience in visible property and visible collaboration instruments for the Studying Innovation Hub.

• Information the design of visible property and branding for the Hub, working carefully with the Communication Specialist and the OOI Communications Workforce.
• Develop steering and capability constructing on visible collaboration instruments for the Hub, geared toward facilitating efficient collaboration.
• Apply design methodologies to supply technical steering and put together compelling and insightful inventive briefs associated to the work of the Studying Innovation Hub.
• Lead the visible design of Hub supplies, shows, studies. This contains changing information into visible representations, similar to infographics, diagrams, graphs, or charts that convey significant data.

5. Lead on constructing a design workforce inside the Studying Innovation Hub to help its mission, together with supporting the onboarding of the brand new workforce members.

• Help the recruitment of related posts and consultancies (particular person or institutional) in addition to partnerships, together with supporting their onboarding.
• Supervise related posts and consultancies (particular person or institutional). This contains potential design researchers, visible designers, and so forth.
• Lead the Strategic Design workforce’s deliverables, tasks, and schedules by setting priorities, assigning sources, and making certain venture targets are achieved.

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

• A sophisticated college diploma (Grasp’s or greater) in strategic design, service design, UX, data design, graphic design, enterprise, advertising, or one other related subject.
• A minimal of eight (8) years of related skilled expertise in relevant fields, similar to strategic consulting, growth-focused work, perception, entrepreneurship.
• Demonstrated expertise of offering technique steering making use of design-thinking rules and methodologies is required.
• Expertise in engaged on and main diversely expert groups, and navigating the interpretation wanted throughout disciplines and organizations is required.
• Confirmed expertise planning, designing, facilitating, and synthesizing workshops and workforce trainings.
• Confirmed expertise with driving and making use of user-centered design processes.  Confirmed expertise creating expertise maps, consumer journeys, service blueprints, flows, and wireframes.
• Working data of “Futures Design” methodology.
• Offered expertise in conducting consumer analysis and taking part in all facets of design analysis qualitatively and quantitatively, together with planning, executing, evaluation, synthesis, deliverable creation.
• Expertise in working in start-up environments in the direction of scale, being an advocate for human-centered design in agile/lean observe and interplay design and useful resource constrained groups a bonus.
• Technical competencies have to be demonstrated within the following areas:
• Superb understanding, experience and expertise within the rules, targets, and methods of design technique. This contains skilled expertise in roles that contain substantial technique steering.
• Demonstrated capacity to collaborate and seek the advice of with multidisciplinary groups to assist them combine design-thinking methods, study from insights, and perceive wants of goal customers. This contains sturdy collaboration and communication.
• Sturdy technical expertise in utility of design methodologies in analysis and evaluation. This contains demonstrated understanding of analysis approaches to establish actionable insights on consumer wants and market/business developments and make use of an empathetic and intuitive strategy to consumer analysis.
• Demonstrated downside fixing expertise using design-thinking methods to create revolutionary options to intricate or nuanced challenges. This will contain implementing design-thinking methodologies, together with defining downside statements, prototyping, empathizing with customers, and ideating options.
• Demonstrated capacity to generate authentic concepts and stimulate the creativity of others. This contains use of divergent considering methods, similar to brainstorming, to ascertain environments the place inventive options can emerge.
• Superb venture administration expertise to assist manage, plan, and execute initiatives. This contains creating lifelike timelines, allocating sources, and collaborating with workforce members to ship initiatives inside projected deadlines and budgets.
• Demonstrated sturdy information visualization methods to current advanced data in motivational and intuitive methods which are simple to know. This contains supporting the creation and implementation of data-driven initiatives and align all concerned events.
• Data of UI and model design is an asset.
• 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.

For each Baby, you display…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (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 submit are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to realize outcomes for impression (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 take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its completely different ranges: competency framework here.

 UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, 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.
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UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which will likely 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). Must you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice will likely be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra data to conduct a background verify.

Authorities staff which are thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance just isn’t obtained, or crucial inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.

Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.

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