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:
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
Hub Set Up
Studying Innovation Portfolio
Via supervision of the Studying Innovation Portfolio Supervisor:
Studying Innovation Design Lab
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):
Hub International Community & Thought Management
Partnerships & Communications
To qualify as an advocate for each baby you should have…
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…
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.
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 youngsters.
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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For any queries, please contact: swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org
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