UNDP Head of Exploration Jobs in Rwanda
UNDP Head of Exploration Jobs in Rwanda
Job Purpose and Organizational ContextThe 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 inequality 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.
Our network will surface and reinforce 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.
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 have a natural inclination to interdisciplinarity, 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.
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 ambiquity, 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 compentencies in program and portfolio management, are at ease with decision-making processes and dynamics of different models of governance.
Duties and Responsibilities
Horizon scanning and market intelligence for the Rwanda Accelerator Lab
Identify, visualize and communicate emerging development trends,data, technologies and issues with a particular focus on the edges and “below the radar screen” events, opportunities and players, and systemically map their impacts on economy, environment, society, and livelihoods of the poorest.
Together with the Accelerator lab team, map and assess local solutions and define pathways for their scale up in policies or markets
Identify new sources of evidence and insights, analyze and visualize patterns in unstructured sources of data, present new insights in accessible and comprehensive ways to enable sensemaking and analysis
Proactively explore and identify the new methods/approaches and frontier knowledge to tackle development challenges, collaborate with the Experimentation lead to turn these into learning options for addressing specific policy issues in the country
Contribute to the formulation of the Accelerator Lab service lines to
the UNDP Country Programme based on findings from horizon scanning, systems’ mapping, and local knowledge
Partnership and Resource mobilization
Map potential partners across the public and private sectors with versatile expertise to strengthen the Lab’s capacities for acceleration thereby expanding the Lab’s distributed network both nationally and internationally
Explore the diversification of funding and investment sources through proactively mapping potential partners and building value proposition for their investment in the Lab and its portfolio of experiments
Collaborate with programme / project managers and CO senior management to anticipate the emerging needs, shape the demand from the clients and support the CO to develop a pipeline of emerging projects responding to those
Contribute insights and provide input to the programme managers and CO senior managemnte to coordinate targeted partnership and communicationactivities for relevant projects / initiatives.
Organizational learning and interface with the core business of UNDP
Support identification of future skills required for the Accelerator Lab, the Country Programme and Lab’s clients
Design and deliver horizon scanning trainings for partners and UNDP, help embed horizon scanning and attention to the ‘edge’ activities in the CO and with the partners
Organize and implement knowledge sharing and network events;
Lead other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab.
Working out loud
Share findings from the exploration on future trends, new methodologies/approaches, potential partnership, funding opportunities, and others within UNDP and with partners;
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.
Coordination
Coordinating the AC team to have an effective annual work plan
Oversee the daily management and effective delivery of the AC team
Ensure the AC team is harmonized
Ensure that Senior Management is updated on AC team developments, and opportunities
Enables the AC team to be embedded strategically within the programme unit work plans effectively
Chairs the office Innovation and Ideas Team
Competencies
Competencies and Selection Criteria Core
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
Required Skills and Experience
Recruitment Qualifications
Education
Master’s degree in Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, 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 Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, 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
Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation;
Demonstrated capacity in horizon scanning;
Experience in following areas is desirable but not necessary:
Professional experience in partnership building and engagement (public and private sector) and resource mobilization;
Proven professional knowledge and experience in at least one of the following: Future thinking and Foresight, research, and Systems Mapping;
Key awareness of key global and regional trends;
Demonstrated access to networks of edge innovators
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; UNDP Head of Exploration Jobs in Rwanda
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