Re-advertisement: Innovation Manager (Design Lead), (P-4), Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden, #126900 (Temporary Appointment – 364 days)

Please Word: It is a re-advertisement with a view to increase the candidate pool. Earlier candidates needn’t reapply as their authentic utility will probably be duly thought of.

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

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each youngster, hope 

The basic mission of UNICEF is to advertise the rights of each youngster, in all places, in every part the group does — in applications, in advocacy and in operations. The fairness technique, emphasizing essentially the most deprived and excluded kids and households, interprets this dedication to kids’s rights into motion. For UNICEF, fairness implies that all kids have a possibility to outlive, develop and attain their full potential, with out discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the diploma that any youngster has an unequal probability in life — in its social, political, financial, civic and cultural dimensions — her or his rights are violated. There may be 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 kids the chance to meet their potential but additionally will result in sustained progress and stability of nations. This is the reason the give attention to fairness is so very important. It accelerates progress in the direction of realizing the human rights of all kids, 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 Workplace of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyze UNICEF’s and all its companions’ experience and sources towards key children-outcomes bottlenecks, 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 spread of early stage options, and harnessing inside and exterior experience in the direction of repeatedly iterating and fine-tuning essentially the most promising options for kids by a scientific portfolio administration method, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation power, know-how and sources from intergovernmental, multilateral, non-public sector and non-governmental fora (suppose tank, academia) 

How will you make a distinction?

This function will give attention to main a pilot initiative on integrating design apply throughout OOI for the primary 12 months, capturing classes and based mostly on these growing a longer-term technique for design apply inside OOI. 

1. Lead a multi-disciplinary design group to ship on a choose initiative 

• Main a artistic group that includes of visible / graphic, interface and repair designers, to ship on tasks which are already within the pipeline. 

Present artistic management to the design group whereas additionally dealing with the stakeholder expectations—making certain a nice steadiness between design rigor and well timed supply of service is maintained. 

• Create and maintain an inspirational atmosphere for the man designers to thrive. Since design isn’t a core space of labor for UNICEF, maintain the design group motivated and our practices as much as the worldwide trade requirements by continually looking for outdoors of the UN area and bringing these learnings inside the group 

2. Create a long-term imaginative and prescient and technique of implementation for design apply inside the Workplace of Innovation 

• Develop a speculation for the necessity of design inside OOI (Workplace of Innovation), utilizing the choose initiatives. 
• In shut collaboration with administration group and the speculation established, suggest a method, together with useful resource wants and methods of working with different groups. 
• Create a 2-to-3-year motion plan—how can we motion on the technique for design? 
• Design a monitoring plan to evaluate technique and overview its progress on ongoing foundation. 

3. Set-up a pool of design expertise for the Workplace of Innovation, together with by staffing, consultants, distributors and so on 

• Establish human capability and expertise wants in design and assist associated recruitment processes. 
• Refresh and evolve a design advisor pool. 
• Assist technical help group managing World HCD LTAs and different recruiting/resourcing options. 
• Replace the present pool of HCD LTAs, with a give attention to artistic businesses within the Scandinavian area. 

4. Present design-related steerage to pick out precedence initiatives throughout the Workplace of Innovation 

• In shut collaboration with administration group, determine precedence initiatives and allocate acceptable design sources (together with for direct assist) 
• Present direct design-related steerage for choose initiatives. 
• This might embody facilitating ideation, validation and technique periods, structuring dash train that may be piloted and templatize; consumer testing and prototyping of technical explorations; evaluating effectiveness of platforms and constructing alignment inside and throughout groups on widespread challenges and/or work areas.

5. Present design mentorship and strategic assist to UNICEF Nation Places of work that contributes to embedding the tradition of innovation past Workplace of Innovation 

• Working with UNICEF Nation Places of work, particularly the Enterprise Fund investees, and offering them with design steerage 
• This might embody facilitating ideation, validation and technique periods, structuring dash train that may be piloted and templatize; consumer testing and prototyping of technical explorations; evaluating effectiveness of platforms. 

6. Have interaction in related planning processes and externally in related fora to characterize the Workplace of Innovation on design 

• Establish alternatives for and contribute to documentation, communications and exterior engagement on OOI’s design work.

Please click on right here to entry the total JD and associated info.  JD TA Design Lead P4.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have:

• A sophisticated college diploma (grasp’s or larger) in product design, communication design, design technique, service design, programs design or different related subject. 
  *A primary College Diploma in a related subject 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 in product design, communication design, design technique, service design, programs design or associated – and confirmed expertise in translating advanced concepts into unified storytelling visuals. 
• A minimal of two years of expertise main artistic groups on a number of tasks of various levels and timelines and managing design sources and capability. 
• Expertise in growing design-related methods, buildings and approaches, together with defining staffing wants and growing groups and constructing capability. 
• Expertise in independently managing and following by a number of tasks and groups concurrently, together with institution of programs to handle competing calls for. 
• A portfolio which exemplifies sturdy work for related design work, which exhibits each sturdy processes and a focus to element. 
• Design expertise throughout the print and digital spectrum and professional-level information of design platforms like Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and digital prototyping instruments like Figma. 
• Data of capabilities and limitations of internet and cellular applied sciences and expertise that extends beyond-screen based mostly designs. 
• A powerful understanding of UNICEF programmes, targets and rules, UNICEF Innovation approaches and expertise in a UNICF programme nation desired. 
• Expertise working in advanced, useful resource poor contexts is a plus. 
• Creating nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Youngster, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part 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 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 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 kids and our international workforce should mirror 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 another 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.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets 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 examine.

Remarks:

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 obligation station, which will probably be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which are 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 suitable to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.

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