UNDP Head of Solutions Mapping Jobs in Khartoum - Sudan
UNDP Head of Solutions Mapping Jobs in Khartoum - Sudan
AgencyUNDP
Title
Head of Solutions Mapping
Job ID 21021
Practice Area - Job Family
Capacity Development
Duty Station
Khartoum, Sudan
Education & Work Experience
I-Master's Level Degree - 0 year(s) experience
Languages Required
Arabic, English
Grade
NOB
Vacancy Type
FTA Local
Posting Type
Common System
Bureau
Arab States
Contract Duration
1 Year with possibility for extension
Background
The UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021 embraces the complexity of development and commits the organization to helping countries find faster, more durable solutions to achieve Agenda 2030.
Important development trends like urbanization, climate change, and rising inequalities pose significant challenges on our path to achieve the 2030 agenda of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Role within UNDP Global Network of Accelerator Labs
As a part of the UNDP global network, the Sudan Accelerator Lab will assist in surfacing and reinforcing locally sourced solutions at scale while mobilizing a wide and dynamic partnership of actors contributing knowledge, resources and experience.
The idea is to transform our collective approach by introducing new protocols, backed by evidence and practice, which accelerate the testing and dissemination of solutions within and across countries.
This will enable the global community to collectively learn from local knowledge and ingenuity at a speed and at a scale that our societies and planet require. This will be achieved by:
Building on locally-sourced solutions, finding things that work and expanding on them;
Rapid testing and iteration to implement what works and go beyond the obvious solutions;
Combining the best understanding, ideas and expertise to generate collective knowledge;
Accelerating progress by bringing expertise, creativity and collective intelligence to bear.
The Accelerator Lab will undertake i) external facing interventions addressing priority development challenges, and ii) internally facing experiments to embed new ways of doing development within the existing UNDP portfolio.
You:
You are capable and excited about starting, design and managing activities, direct engagement with local communities and collaboration across global networks.
You are driven by learning new things, figuring out how they work and translating them across sectors.
You tell stories of emergent solutions and you gravitate to solving global development challenges.
You have a natural inclination to interdisciplinary, cross cultural mindset and cross sectoral experience with the cosmopolitan attraction for diversity.
You are driven by a strong sense of purpose and commitment to make change happen and a keen eye to identify emerging opportunities and ‘at the edge’ trends.
Duties and Responsibilities
Lead lab efforts in deep community immersion, collective intelligence and solutions mapping
Developing and sustaining positive relationships with a range of local community and citizen groups
Identifying and training local volunteers, recruiting Universities and think tanks for sustaining long term community outreach and engagement and identification of lead users, providing training and mentoring
Translaton of ethnographic and field research findings into learning and action for the acceleration lab activities
Design specific field research and participatory methods to focus on the most vulnerable populations and those not usually engaged in public policy debates on development methods
Explore, document and increase understanding on emerging methods of tapping into collective intelligence for sustainable development
Convene the processes of solution intake, assessment and designing
Design and implement methodology for in-taking indigenous knowledge and local solutions, consolidating, screening and further describing incoming ideas
Design criteria/metrics for assessing consolidating incoming local solutions
Conduct field research to determine best methods of making solutions transferable
Test the solutions and potential ideas in real life context to understand potential channels of spreading (including identifying private and public sector venues for uptake)
Analyse system level issues that local solutions address (and don’t address, therefore exposing gaps)
Design of ‘things and tools’ needed to successful scale indigenous knowledge, lead user solutions, turning its insights into systemic change
Design methods for integrating collective intelligence into UNDP programmes and engage with programme and project managers to translate ideas into concrete practice
Undertake cultural and
behavioral analyses for the accelerator lab portolio of experiments
Advise on the accelerator lab’s experiment portfolio to ensure experiments are designed based on people’s knowledge, behaviors and peer to peer methods of managing and diffusing knowledge about sustainable development issues.
Ensure ethics framework is implemented for the lab’s portfolio of experiments
Design methods to test accelerator ideas for their applicability and diffusion
Integrate cultural norms, peer to peer methods and behaviorial insights into technology based experiments
Convene a broad range of new partners with UNDP including artists, community organizers and emergent movements to explore areas for collaboration on sustainable development
Work out loud and Organizational Learning
Lead communication efforts and proactively use blog and social media to share findings from field research
Ensure UNDP’s communication efforts respect privacy and ethics considerations
Liaise with the broader Accelerator Lab network and the support team to share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience
Help embed solutions mapping lead user methodology within the CO portfolio, design and provide trainings that include various methodologies and steps to identify and work with lead users
Competencies
Innovation
Ability to make new and useful ideas work: Level 4: Adept with complex concepts and challenges convention purposefully
Leadership
Ability to persuade others to follow: Level 4: Generates commitment, excitement and excellence in others
People Management
Ability to improve performance and satisfaction: Level 4: Models independent thinking and action
Communication
Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform: Level 4: Synthesizes information to communicate independent analysis
Delivery
Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement: Level 4: Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or services
Technical/Functional
Ability to manage organizational resources and deployment in pursuit of innovation approaches and initiatives :
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
Master’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Communications or related field and minimum of 2 years of professional experience in development programming or policy;
social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization OR Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Communications or related field and minimum of 4 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization
Experience:
Demonstrated ability to undertake field research in remote communities and document ethnographic evidence and honor expertise in usual places
Demonstrate ability to work in participatory methods, follow the lead of people as experts in their own sustainable development
Experience in following areas is desirable but not necessary:
Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation.
Proven professional knowledge and experience in approaches such as Ethnography, behavioral insights, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, service journeys or human centered design
Demonstrated ability to work with partners to help surface unarticulated needs
Proven ablity to design ethical frameworks for managing public sector experiments
Language Requirements:
Proficiency in written and spoken English and Arabic
Disclaimer
The Accelerator Labs will be comprised of a core team with niche capabilities that focus on exploration, experimentation and ethnographic solutions mapping.
Within the first 6-8 months of the Lab fully functioning, each member of the Core team will take the lead on one of the following functions:
Coordination
Training
Communications
The Core team of the Accelerator lab will have capabilities in:
Experimentation (instituting rapid learning about emerging challenges through design and running of a portfolio of experiments that is coherent with the type of challenges that are part of UNDP’s strategic plan, and Ethnographic solutions mapping: deep immersion in community dynamics, identification of and work with lead users, and implications of bottom up solutions for the policy design
How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply online by 5th March 2019
For more information and job application details, see; UNDP Head of Solutions Mapping Jobs in Khartoum - Sudan
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