Senior Adviser Innovation (Learning Hub) P-5, FTA, Office of Innovation, Helsinki, Finland, #118938

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

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

And we by no means hand over.

But the present tempo of progress for kids won’t get us to children-related SDGs targets. This, if left unaddressed, will go away tens of million youngsters behind. Unprotected. Uneducated. Unfed. Unable to succeed in their full potential. 

For each baby, hope . . .

The Workplace of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyse UNICEF’s and all its companions’ experience and sources towards 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 spread of early stage options, and harnessing inside and exterior experience in the direction of repeatedly iterating and finetuning probably the most promising options for kids via a scientific portfolio administration method, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation power, knowhow and sources from intergovernmental, multilateral, personal sector and non-governmental fora (suppose tank, academia).

 

For each baby, studying…

The UNICEF Studying Innovation Hub is the house for the architects of the way forward for studying with the purpose of bringing collectively the worldwide neighborhood to construct recreation altering options in schooling, that may assist resolve the educational disaster and as nicely think about and develop different studying futures for all youngsters.

The UNICEF Studying Innovation Hub helps the Reimagine Training initiative via accelerating equitable entry to world class digital studying options by testing and scaling frontier applied sciences & improvements hand in hand with UNICEF Nation Places of work. On the identical time, it creates a protected playground for disruption, inviting UNICEF and the educational neighborhood to search for options outdoors the standard sphere and be a part of tech entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, knowledge ninjas, fiction writers, designers, enterprise leaders & others to discover new studying journeys, pedagogical approaches, areas and artifacts that assist unleash every baby’s full potential. 

The UNICEF Studying Innovation Hub brings to the entrance the voice of younger individuals concerning 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 vibrant different futures that turns studying into an interesting journey for all youngsters.

 

How will you make a distinction?

You’ll work below the route of Director of the Innovation Workplace. As a visionary and strategic thinker, your position entails fostering collaboration amongst varied stakeholders, fields of experience, and sources. Your skill to forge connections in revolutionary methods will result in groundbreaking options and thrilling alternatives for the good thing about all youngsters.

You have to to have a robust entrepreneurial background, with confirmed expertise in designing, constructing and fire-starting new ventures from scratch with glorious and compelling communication expertise that may assist appeal to and interact world-class expertise, sources and strategic partnerships. This may even suggest a deep understanding and expertise in innovation and human centered design method at massive: from what it takes to convey a brand new profitable services or products to life to designing methods for system change. You should be know-how literate, with a robust understanding of frontier applied sciences, akin to AI, ML, robotics, and many others. which might be at the moment redefining the educational expertise.

You can be chargeable for main UNICEF’s Studying Innovation Hub in Helsinki, tasked with figuring out, piloting, accelerating, and scaling revolutionary digital studying options that can positively influence studying outcomes for hundreds of thousands of youngsters world wide and that can empower them to amass the talents they want for the way forward for work, unleash their full potential, and change into architects of their very own future.

 

Key capabilities, accountabilities, and associated duties/duties:

• To advance UNICEF’s Strategic Plan and contribute to the achievement of SDG4 targets, collaborate intently with each inside and exterior stakeholders to formulate and execute the strategic imaginative and prescient for innovation in studying.
• As the pinnacle of UNICEF’s  Studying Innovation Hub, positioned as a outstanding world entity within the realm of studying innovation, play a pivotal position in shaping the long run success of Reimagine Training. Rework this hub right into a dynamic think-and-do platform for driving innovation within the discipline of schooling. The tasks embody overseeing the hub actions akin to strategic planning, strategic communication and positioning, finances administration, human sources, and workplace institution.
• Constructing partnerships for achievement, together with key Finnish companions, major companions from the worldwide south, the worldwide personal sector, and others, utilizing revolutionary approaches to draw world-class experience and sources.
• Growing and overseeing a portfolio of game-changing, world-class digital studying options targeted on addressing recognized downside statements. These options will speed up the supply of Reimagine Training by leveraging frontier applied sciences to enhance studying outcomes for kids.
• Growing and overseeing a suppose tank that focuses on producing thought-provoking analysis and experiences. These initiatives ought to present new insights to the educational neighborhood on transdisciplinary approaches, disruptive applied sciences, and cost-effective options from the sector.
• Coordinating and overseeing the event of a Nation Workplace Studying Pioneers Community to make sure options are examined, refined, and scaled in partnership with end-user ecosystems.
• Constructing and managing the workforce in Helsinki chargeable for delivering outcomes. This shall be carried out in collaboration with steering and help from colleagues within the Workplace of Innovation Core Workforce in Sweden.

 

Below the route of Director of Innovation, you’ll be an inspirational and strategic thought chief with sturdy expertise in beginning an revolutionary enterprise, construct the technique and lead operationalization to handle UNICEF’s Studying Innovation Hub. This can embody:

Imaginative and prescient, Strategic Planning and KPIs

• Rework the imaginative and prescient of the Studying Innovation Hub into concrete motion plan with tangible deliverables; a pathway to place the Hub as a key participant throughout the world studying ecosystem; a development technique for mobilizing sources and growing the Hub’s attain; finances and KPIs that mirror influence pushed innovation method.
• Working with Programme Group Training colleagues (within the Hub and in Training roles throughout UNICEF) to construct a shared understanding for a way innovation in studying will ship towards the long-term imaginative and prescient for Reimagine Training, guaranteeing that is translated right into a disciplined method to innovation targeted on concrete and actionable downside statements, which inform planning, prioritization and reporting for all the Hub’s actions.

 

Hub Set Up

• Handle the Studying Hub workforce members who’re supported to ship outcomes, with the collaboration of colleagues from the Workplace of Innovation Core Workforce in Sweden for steering and help.
• Construct Hub branding and id in collaboration with P5 Senior Adviser (Partnership & Comms), Stockholm.
• Prioritize and oversee recruitment of workers into the Hub and the outsourcing of actions to exterior distributors.

 

Studying Innovation Portfolio

Via supervision of the Studying Innovation Portfolio Supervisor:

• Oversee the overview and improvement of the educational innovation portfolio guaranteeing the precise scaffolding and help is in place to draw, choose and develop recreation altering digital studying options with excessive potential for influence and scale.
• Guarantee applicable sourcing ways are in place, together with constructing structured pathways between Enterprise Fund investments and the Studying Innovation Portfolio.
• Present thought management on revolutionary methods to scale up digital studying options via enterprise mannequin design, know-how switch, and different different pathways to make sure equitable entry to the most effective digital studying instruments for all youngsters.
• Advise on human centered design and state-of-the-art person expertise for growing partaking and impactful digital studying options for various contexts and settings within the world south.

 

 Studying Innovation Design Lab

• Oversee the co-creation of recent options by bringing collectively UNICEF experience within the discipline, with academia, entrepreneurs, companies round particular studying challenges and untapped alternatives.
• Present recommendation on greatest innovation practices for co-creation with a number of stakeholders and agile methodologies to efficiently design, pilot and take a look at new options from scratch.
• Via supervision of the Studying Cupboard Product Lead, oversee the design and improvement of an EdTech Instruments repository.

 

Subject & Nation Workplace Community

Via supervision of the Training Specialist (who works in shut partnership with Programme Group Training colleagues in HQ, ROs and COs):

• Oversee the event of the Studying Innovation Pioneers Community throughout UNICEF to make sure digital options are ground-truthed, examined and scaled in partnership with the top person ecosystems.
• Oversee the event and implementation of methods to help Nation Places of work of their course of to help their native ecosystem to adapt, soak up and scale revolutionary digital studying options.
• Design and implement methods to have interaction Nation Places of work and different stakeholders, together with younger individuals, guaranteeing shut ties to UNICEF programming and the worldwide south and to assemble insights on major wants, challenges, limitations that may inform all of the Hub actions.

 

Hub International Community & Thought Management

• Construct a community of thought leaders + strategic key companions within the schooling, frontier know-how & influence funding
• Oversee the event of thought-provoking analysis on the crossroad of studying, know-how and different transversal disciplines.
• Take part in related studying, know-how, and entrepreneurship occasions globally, each from private and non-private sector.

 

Partnerships & Communications

• Working in partnership with PPD, construct and keep a robust relationship with key authorities stakeholders in Finland.
• Primarily based on the agreed imaginative and prescient for the Studying Innovation Hub, work along with P5 Senior Adviser (Partnership & Comms), Stockholm on a partnership and communications technique for the Studying Innovation Hub.
• Inside the Finnish ecosystem, characterize UNICEF Innovation and the Studying Innovation hub as thought leaders in studying innovation and innovation for kids, together with collaborating in related occasions and media alternatives in Finland and globally
• Help the hub in constructing partnerships with key ecosystems for studying innovation within the world south
• Help the prospecting and stewardship of main companions for the Studying Innovation Hub
• You might be anticipated to work collaboratively with the opposite Hub leads (as they’re recruited), key personnel throughout the Core Workplace of Innovation workforce in Stockholm and Training colleagues throughout UNICEF.

 

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

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or increased) in Innovation, Know-how, Enterprise, Training or one other related technical discipline.
• A minimal of ten (10) years of related skilled expertise is required at nationwide and worldwide ranges within the space of Innovation and/or Innovation in Studying, throughout the personal and public sector. 
• A minimal of ten (10) years of required skilled expertise associated to management and folks administration.
• Entrepreneurial capability, demonstrated via expertise of beginning a brand new enterprise, initiative or workforce and constructing it from scratch.
• Expertise in working with know-how, ideally frontier applied sciences akin to AI, ML, robotics, in low useful resource settings.
• Expertise in human-centered design and design pondering utilized to know-how and innovation initiatives.
• Expertise within the personal sector and institution of partnerships inside it.
• Expertise in working in UNICEF programme nations.
• Expertise in working throughout the UN system is fascinating.
• Expertise inworking with and managing numerous stakeholders, together with authorities, personal sector, NGOs and UN companions.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

 

For each Little one, you display…

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 submit are…

• Demonstrates Self Consciousness and Moral Consciousness (3)
• Works Collaboratively with others (3)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships(3)
• Innovates and Embraces Adjustments (3)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (3)
• Drive to realize impactful outcomes (3)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (3)
• Nurtures, leads and manages individuals (3)

 

Through 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 youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, 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 go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
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Remarks:

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

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 shall be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Do you have to 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 shall be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will endure rigorous reference and background checks and shall 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 extra info to conduct a background verify.

Authorities staff which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or needed inoculation necessities will not be met, inside an inexpensive interval for any purpose.

 

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