Innovation Specialist (Sustainable WASH), P-3, Office of Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark #127802

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

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

And we by no means surrender.

For each baby, hope

Organizational context:

The imaginative and prescient of the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (WASH Hub) is to be a world dwelling for constructing, accelerating and scaling transformational local weather resilient options for a WASH safe way forward for common and equitable entry to companies, addressing the complete ambition of the SDG6. WASH Hub will supply, pilot and scale transformational and frontier local weather resilient improvements that reply to key programmatic challenges that, if solved, will unlock quicker progress for a water safe future for youngsters and younger individuals. One of many key international challenges that the Hub will deal with by way of exploration and scale of progressive options shall be tackling foreseen local weather change impacts on WASH companies and supply entry. The Hub may even assist analysis and innovation on the hyperlinks between local weather change and water, sanitation and hygiene. The hub will carry collectively a passionate neighborhood of strategic companions together with youngsters and younger individuals, academia, personal entrepreneurs, public coverage makers, social growth and humanitarian actors, and our international UNICEF WASH / CEED and innovation colleagues in 150+ nations. Collectively we’ll co-create, advocate, allow, convene, and inspire for progressive sustainable options to long-standing boundaries and rising alternatives for a WASH safe and local weather resilient future for each baby. The WASH Hub shall be a part of a distributed community working in shut partnership with baby impacted native ecosystems in nations the world over, whereas concurrently partaking a number of the most impactful international innovation ecosystems.

How are you going to make a distinction?

The aim of this position is to assist Nation Workplaces engaged on innovation initiatives, to assist their work, facilitate documentation of greatest observe, assist navigate the challenges of innovation initiatives at scale and deal with points after they come up. The Innovation Specialist shall be answerable for supporting the day-to-day administration of the WASH Innovation portfolio initiatives and driving local weather resilient WASH improvements to speed up outcomes for youngsters and younger individuals.

The Innovation Specialist will work below the supervision of the Innovation Supervisor (WASH Hub). They might want to work in an setting that may evolve requiring adaptability, flexibility, and the flexibility to creatively reply to quickly altering innovation landscapes. The put up might want to guarantee sturdy connections between the WASH hub, Regional Advisors and Nation WASH groups and the related communities of observe to share the outcomes of the WASH innovation portfolio.  

Key capabilities, accountabilities, and associated duties/duties:

1. Help Nation Workplaces implementing Innovation initiatives as a part of the WASH portfolio. Key actions to realize this embrace:
   • Coordinate and interact with nation places of work on progress of initiatives and deliverables associated to the WASH hubs strategy to scaling.
   • Present dealer and supply technical assist for initiatives inside the portfolio, enabling them to speed up and scale new approaches.
   • Facilitate the documentation of greatest observe to advise scaling improvements to different nations or areas.
   • Make the most of inside processes, as wanted, to assist initiatives alongside the innovation course of and outline pathways to scale.
   • Work collaboratively to determine options to challenges for initiatives as they come up.
2. Actively assist the WASH innovation portfolio course of. Key actions to realize this embrace:
   • Help the consumption of progressive options for the portfolio in step with agreed international governance processes.
   • Help the Innovation Supervisor to supply, dealer and supply assist for initiatives wishing to enter the portfolio, enabling them to speed up new approaches to the recognized WASH downside statements.
   • Help the event of inside processes, as wanted, to raised assist inside innovation initiatives from inside UNICEF.
   • By on the bottom actions assist nation places of work and mission groups to determine challenges and options each type a strategic and sensible perspective, to outline subsequent steps and mission actions.
3. Discover useful resource mobilization wants for nation workplace assist
   • Summarize initiatives, approaches and actions inside the portfolio for the OoI groups as acceptable.
   • Help useful resource mobilization and partnership alternatives inside the WASH hub and the broader OoI Partnerships workforce as required.
   • Help exploration of potential partnership alternatives for the general portfolio or for particular portfolio options to be explored at Nation or Regional stage.
4. Help the sharing of Innovation initiatives experiences and outcomes. Key actions to realize this embrace:
   • Guarantee sturdy connections between the WASH hub, Regional Advisors and Nation WASH groups and the related communities of observe to share the outcomes of the WASH innovation portfolio.
   • Plan for the event of communications merchandise, and frequently showcase the portfolios and their initiatives throughout a variety of alternatives to boost profile, positioning and engagement and assist for these and the Workplace of Innovation, by way of alternatives equivalent to tales, media, social media, occasions, briefings and many others.
   • Help and coordinate with the Communications Specialist (Innovation) to allow them to pick out content material by way of alternatives on the Nation stage.
5. Help innovators in local weather resilient WASH throughout UNICEF by:
   • Making certain INVENT and SharePoint content material is updated in relation to the portfolios.
   • Seize and distill studying and share these broadly by way of mechanisms equivalent to recorded webinars, documentation, movies and different belongings, developmental reflections and many others.
   • Help the connection and engagement the exterior and inside stakeholders in WASH innovation by way of bringing exterior experiences into UNICEF in addition to showcasing inside greatest observe.
   • Help the facilitation of south-south and triangular sharing of greatest practices.
6. Present assist to Innovation Supervisor in respect to managing grants in assist of portfolio options. Key actions to realize this embrace:
   • Monitoring nation workplace budgets and spending in opposition to agreed spending and workplans.
   • Updates on consultancy work associated to the portfolio initiatives, progress updates and assessment of first draft deliverables.
7. Some other duties or assignments as requested by the supervisor.

 

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or larger) in one of many following fields is required: Environmental Science, Sustainability or associated fields, Innovation-related area, Worldwide Relations, Water & Sanitation or one other related area. 
  *A primary College Diploma in a related area mixed with 2 extra years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.
• A minimal of 5 (5) of related skilled expertise within the areas of innovation, sustainability, water & sanitation, local weather change, growth and cooperation. 
• Understanding of local weather resilient WASH / CEED improvements and programming inside the UNICEF context.  
• Demonstrated understanding of innovation observe in humanitarian, growth or low useful resource settings, this might embrace start-up to scaling improvements in related sector(s).
• Demonstrable capability to work with stakeholders and communities in any respect ranges in a variety of cultures, to strategically determine and deal with challenges and bottle necks to ship outcomes.  
• Demonstrated data of UNICEF’s processes and procedures is taken into account an asset.   
• Display expertise of supporting and advising nation places of work remotely and/or in nation all through the mission administration cycle.  
• Capacity to work with others in a variety of settings. 
• Expertise of working in a UNICEF programme nation. 
• Expertise of working inside innovation portfolios is fascinating. 
• Expertise in supporting growth of communication supplies for inside and exterior publication is fascinating. 
• Expertise in managing grants in addition to commissioning and managing contractors is fascinating.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

 

For each Youngster, you reveal…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little 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.

In the course of 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 youngsters and our international workforce should replicate the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter 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 depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
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Remarks:

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

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