Innovation Specialist, P-3 At Unicef

Details of the offer

Digital Transformation and Innovation Strategies
Provide leadership to development of DX and innovation strategies at RO and CO level; including governance and management, Innovation Portfolio approaches, partnerships and resource mobilization, assessment of gaps, opportunities and scale-up strategy in support of CO priorities.

Participation in programme and management processes
Integrate innovation into the programme planning lifecycle. Align with programme priorities (e.g. AWP) and attend planning meetings (PCM) to exercise functional accountabilities.

Leadership and Quality Assurance
Oversee development and quality assurance during planning and deployment of innovation initiatives; participate in establishing and maintaining standards, documentation and support mechanisms.

Manage the Innovation function, and provide technical and programmatic support:
Business Relationship Management
Manage Business and Programme Relationship services to define high-level requirements; document and match requirements and guide the design, development and deployment of appropriate Innovative solutions.

Portfolio Coordination
Lead deployment of the Innovation portfolio approach to solutions prioritised for UNICEF programming

Support and assist design of Innovation interventions
Provide support and technical assistance to the Country Office in the identification, selection, concept design, deployment and sustainability of Innovation interventions to address bottlenecks towards the achievement of programme results.

Identify and assess new Innovations
Assist programme sections to identify and assess new initiatives, or new phases of on-going initiatives, with immediate potential to improve UNICEF programming.

Solution procurement and evaluation
Assist the review of technical solutions to ensure UNICEF standards are followed; contribute to project management processes, generation and review of terms of reference and vendor selection.

Deployment advice and support
Advisory and assistance with implementation strategy, including technical oversight, troubleshooting and the documentation of challenges and resolutions.

Design thinking
Support human/user-centred design methods to enable user-acceptance testing, evaluation, documentation and analysis.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
Education:Advanced university degree in International Affairs, International Relations, International Development, Business Management, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management, or related practical experience
Work Experience:A minimum of five years of professional experience in ICT management, business analysis or similar, in a large international organization and/or corporation.
Experience with Programme, Digital, Product and / or Data Innovations in low bandwidth settings is required.
Experience identifying, designing, and implementing solutions for large-scale projects with technical components – including supervising external vendors; responsibility for business analysis, budgets, contracts, project management and procurement is required.


Nominal Salary: To be agreed

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