Programme Specialist (User Experience), P-3, Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden, #127173 (Temporary Appointment, 364 days)

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in 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, each day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each baby, innovate.

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each baby, in every single place, in every little thing the group does — in applications, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing probably the most deprived and excluded youngsters and households, interprets this dedication to youngsters’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness signifies that all youngsters have a chance to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any baby has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There’s rising proof that investing within the well being, training and safety of a society’s most deprived residents — addressing inequity — not solely will give all youngsters the chance to meet their potential but in addition will result in sustained development and stability of nations. That is why the concentrate on fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in direction of realizing the human rights of all youngsters, which is the common mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Conference on the Rights of the Youngster, whereas additionally supporting the equitable improvement of countries.

The Ventures crew in UNICEF’s Workplace of Innovation Fund exists to problem frontier applied sciences which have the potential to deliver radical change for kids.​ We add worth by testing and investing in early-stage simply open innovation and priming probably the most appropriate options for scale. ​The Enterprise Fund has been particularly designed to finance early stage, open-source expertise that may profit youngsters. The core motivation of the Enterprise Fund is to determine “clusters” or portfolios of initiatives round rising expertise – in order that UNICEF can each form markets and likewise find out about and information these applied sciences to profit youngsters. We spend money on options that may influence the lives of probably the most susceptible youngsters. The present Ventures portfolio of options consists of early and development stage options information science and synthetic intelligence, blockchain, UAVs and different rising applied sciences.

How will you make a distinction?

Beneath the management of the Innovation Supervisor (Rising Expertise) the Person Expertise Specialist will work intently throughout the Ventures crew and its portfolio of options to supply UX/UI, Human Centered Design and product design assist. For technical alignment, this function will work intently with the Innovation Supervisor (Design Lead).

We search a robust self-motivated top-level Person Expertise & Interplay Specialist who can preserve robust design sensibilities even underneath tight time constraints, who can work with a various interdisciplinary crew to assist product improvement and go-to-market methods and to speak concepts visually and who can preserve readability of their work whereas juggling and prioritizing a number of tasks without delay.

Total, this place is answerable for:

• Offering UX/UI assist for open-source expertise merchandise developed in-house by UNICEF Ventures crew, together with early stage. This contains identification of consumer wants, constructing stakeholder alignment on the recognized wants, with a concentrate on feasibility, executing in low and high-fidelity and fast testing for the prototypes.
• Strategic assist utilizing frameworks for consensus constructing.
• Offering technical steerage to the Enterprise Fund portfolio of startup and nation workplace options on UX/UI, human centered design ideas and practices
• Managing UX/UI assets

Key features, accountabilities, and associated duties/duties:

1) Offering technical steerage to the Enterprise Fund portfolio on UX/UI, human centered design ideas and practices

• Figuring out wants inside the portfolio
• Designing and figuring out technical help choices primarily based on wants evaluation, together with fundamental assist for early-stage options which might be receiving first spherical of funding from the fund, and extra sturdy assist for corporations receiving bigger, second stage bridge or acceleration funding.
• Supporting corporations on packaging merchandise for development, and on combining options into bigger open-source platforms
• Guaranteeing options have in place sturdy prototyping and piloting plans that seize information and insights for product improvement and acceleration.
• Coordinating provision of technical help and guaranteeing that precedence wants are met, together with by means of the event of key assets and interactions.

2) Offering UX/UI for open-source expertise merchandise developed in-house by UNICEF Ventures crew.

• For concepts and product at an early stage the assist contains identification of wants, improvement of preliminary ideas, creating and validating mockups and wireframes, producing consumer necessities, personas, storyboards, journey maps, situations, movement charts and so on. to provide form to any preliminary thought.
• Growing UX/UI methods for merchandise
• Speedy testing to validate the prototypes.
• For merchandise at acceleration and scale stage the assist contains adapting design and product improvement to permit for acceleration and tailoring for various inside and exterior customers

3) Strategic assist utilizing frameworks for consensus constructing – Offering the Ventures crew with design assist for strategic evaluation and planning processes, constructing alignment and bringing cross-pollination of concepts throughout completely different practical verticals of the crew.

4) Managing UX/UI assets

• managing distributors and different assets to develop the early and later stage merchandise developed in-house, as wanted.
• Growing and making use of requirements and high quality assurance, primarily based on greatest practices.

Please see hooked up the entire the JD for this submit:  JD TA Programme Specialist (User experience) P3.docx

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

• A sophisticated college diploma (grasp’s or increased) in interplay design, product design, human-computer interplay, data design and data structure or one other related 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 5 [5] years of related skilled expertise in progressively accountable related skilled expertise in UX/UI product design expertise, a few of which needs to be in a world setting. Seven years of expertise in lieu of a complicated diploma.
• Sturdy experience in consumer expertise and interplay design, analysis and session for web-based designs, apps, and information data methods, data structure and methods mapping design.
• Sturdy understanding of design methods and front-end structure 
• Expertise in creating interactive prototypes in instruments like Sketch, Adobe CC, Invision, and so on.
• Most well-liked information of capabilities and limitations of Internet applied sciences reminiscent of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Expertise with advanced methods
• Expertise in independently managing and following by means of a number of tasks concurrently.
• Expertise in coordinating actions inside and throughout groups, together with challenge groups for particular initiatives and use of present challenge administration and monitoring platforms and instruments.
• Demonstrated skill of extrapolating data from crew members that may be translated in a simplified and articulate manner.
• A robust understanding of UNICEF programmes, targets and ideas, and expertise in a UNICF programme nation desired
• Expertise working in advanced, useful resource poor contexts is a plus.
• 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 Youngster, you show…

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 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.

Throughout the recruitment course of, we check 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 youngsters and our world workforce should replicate the variety 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 some 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 using versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals 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 youngsters. 

Remarks:

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation 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). 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 probably be cancelled.

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

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

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