{"id":36062,"date":"2019-02-12T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=36062"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:14:09","slug":"undp-recruiting-for-positions-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/undp-recruiting-for-positions-2019.html","title":{"rendered":"UNDP Recruiting For Positions 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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).<\/p>\n
UNDP has begun incubating a number of strategic initiatives aimed at ensuring UNDP is \u2018fit for purpose\u2019 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.<\/p>\n
Us<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/u>We are building the largest and fastest learning global network of Accelerator Labs (initially setting up 60 labs in 60 countries) embedded within UNDP\u2019s global architecture and country platforms. The new offering builds on the latest thinking from the fields of\u00a0complexity science<\/strong>,\u00a0lead user innovation<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0collective intelligence<\/strong>\u00a0to accelerate development impact.<\/p>\n Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0Head of Experimentation<\/strong><\/p>\n This Will Be Achieved By<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n You<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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 \u2018at the edge\u2019 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.<\/p>\n You are curious, quirky and fun, natural strategic thinkers and talented designers. You understand systems, the good, the bad and the ugly, and are capable of working within bureaucracies to make change, leverage technology to extend, enhance and multiply exploration, discovery and execution. You are digitally savy, you hack tools, and you are keen to be a part of a large global organization exhibiting United Nations values.<\/p>\n Duties And Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.Experiment portfolio design: 2. Management Of Prototype Experiments For Sustainable Development Challenges 3. Working Out Loud 4. Organizational learning, working out loud and grafting experimentation onto the core business of UNDP: Competencies Education<\/strong><\/p>\n Required Skills and Experience OR<\/p>\n Experience Experience In Following Areas Is Desirable But Not Necessary Language Requirements Other<\/strong><\/p>\n The Accelerator Labs will be comprised of a core team with niche capabilities that focus on\u00a0exploration, experimentation and ethnography.\u00a0<\/strong>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:<\/p>\n The Core team of the Accelerator lab will have capabilities in:<\/p>\n Disclaimer<\/strong><\/p>\n Important applicant information<\/p>\n All posts in the GS categories are subject to local recruitment.<\/p>\n Applicant Information About UNDP Rosters<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Workforce diversity<\/p>\n UNDP is committed to achieving diversity within its workforce, and encourages all qualified applicants, irrespective of gender, nationality, disabilities, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds to apply. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. 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