UNDP Head of Experimentation Jobs in Tanzania
UNDP Head of Experimentation Jobs in Tanzania
AgencyUNDP
Title
Head of Experimentation
Job ID:21166
Practice Area - Job Family
Management - ACCELERATOR LAB, Capacity Development - ACCELERATOR LAB
Duty Station
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of
Education & Work Experience
G-Bachelor's Level Degree - 4 year(s) experience, I-Master's Level Degree - 2 year(s) experience
Languages:
English
Swahili
Vacancy Type
FTA Local
Posting Type
External
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).
UNDP has begun incubating a number of strategic initiatives aimed at ensuring UNDP is ‘fit for purpose’ to deliver a new generation of solutions in line with the challenges the world faces.
One such key strategic initiatives is the Country Accelerator Lab Network. The initiative is a recognition that increasingly interrelated development challenges require going beyond business as usual and single point, linear and silver bullet responses in development.
Instead, they call for an interdisciplinary approaches and non-linear solutions that crowd in the collective efforts of variety of partners and tap into local insights and the knowledge of people closest to the problem and the solutions.
The initiative is also a recognition and an investment in the emerging momentum among a growing number of UNDP Country Offices around joining together disruptive, cutting edge methodologies with contextual, country-based insights and expertise to accelerate impact and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
You:
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 sect-oral 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.
You are open to discovery and exploration, capable of articulating insights and ideas through visual thinking, open to serendipity and discovery yet are pragmatic and constructive working with public sector authorities.
You are comfortable with ambiguity, capable of zooming out for context and zooming in for content and execution- sharp in pursuit of objectives, fast at adapting and changing course when needed.
You have superb competencies in program and portfolio management, are at ease with decision-making processes and dynamics of different models of governance.
Duties and Responsibilities
Experiment portfolio design
Works with UNDP and partners to lead mapping the context and nature of development challenges, with a particular focus on understanding systemic issues beyond traditional silos and classifications and identifying drivers of change, and levers for intervention
Mapping systems and assets, identifying levers and logic for intervention, building hypotheses of change that are a fit to the system level challenges identified
Identify logic against which to assess fit and coherence of the individual portfolios with the frontier challenges on which they are meant to generate learning
Management of prototype experiments for sustainable development challenges
Lead the design of experiments across to validate the hypotheses and test the effectiveness of identified prototypes, including (but not limit to) defining variables, formulating hypotheses, and coordinating experimental protocols
Develop a framework to capture the learning from the experiments in such a way that it favours critical reflection and rapid adaptation over static reporting
Provide technical guidance for experiment design, roll-out and validation based on the experiment conditions, resources available, and requirements
Proactively manage risks within experiments including those related to ethics and privacy
Examine the results from the testing of prototypes and translate them into programmatic decisions on next steps and implications for improvement, spin offs and scaling-up where warranted.
Working out Loud
Proactively use blog and social media to share findings from the portfolio implementation
Help UNDP and partners disseminate insights from Accelerator lab experiments via social media platforms as a way to regularly reflect and engage with external audiences.
Liaise with UNDP’s global Accelerator Lab network and share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience
Jointly with the CO, support lab partners to develop an emerging pipeline of new initiatives, support other activities related to the design and operation of the Lab
Design and deliver engaging and meaningful methods for reflection on learning from experiments
Proactively use blog posts and social media to share insights, attract partners and help position Accelerator Lab at the forefront of the exploration of new trends.
Lead other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab
Organizational learning , working out loud and grafting experimentation onto the core business of UNDP
Help embed a portfolio logic in clients’ work including the existing UNDP Country Programme (as determined and agreed with the senior management)
Working with clients to encourage reflection and capturing of insights from individual experiments, as they related to the overall portfolio logic
Provide technical consultation and training for national partners and the CO through various phases including asset mapping, developing a strategic portfolio logic, experiment design, prototype testing, and evaluation;
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
Innovation
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 Social Science, International Development, Science, Engineering, Design or a related area 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 Social Science, International Development, Science, Engineering, Design or related area 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
Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation;
Proven professional knowledge and experience in social innovation approaches such as Design Thinking, behavioral insights, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, Experiment Design & Validation, data empowerment, and collective intelligence;
Demonstrated ability to work with clients to help surface unarticulated needs;
Demonstrated ability to apply a portfolio logic to experiments;
Demonstrate ability to design experiments, validate hypotheses and test prototypes;
Demonstrated ability in running co-design sessions and capacity-building in experimental design, lean iteration and impact evaluation;
Language
Proficiency in written and spoken English.
Others:
The Accelerator Labs will be comprised of a core team with niche capabilities that focus on exploration, experimentation and ethnography. 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
How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply online by 13th March 2019
Applicant information about UNDP rosters
Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.
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