Jobs in Egypt - Head of Exploration at UNDP

Head of Exploration at UNDP

Location: Cournich El Nil

Deadline: 25-May-2020

Job Requirements:

Education:

Master’s degree in Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Business Intelligence, 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, Business Intelligence, 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;

• Demonstrated capacity in data analysis and visualization.

Experience in following areas is desirable but not necessary:

• Proven professional knowledge and experience in social innovation approaches such as Systems Thinking, Ethnography, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence Design, Citizen Science, Positive Deviance, Social Network Analysis, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

• Professional experience in partnership building and engagement (public and private sector)

• Demonstrated capacity to use open data, mobile data, geospatial data, drone & satellite data, citizen data for informing policy making, strategic planning, or programme design.

• Proven professional knowledge and experience in at least one of the following: Future thinking and Foresight, Design Research, and Systems Mapping;

• Key awareness of key global and regional trends;

• Demonstrated access to networks of edge innovators.

Language Requirements:

Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Job Description:

Horizon scanning and intelligence for the 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.

• 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

• Provide technical guidance for horizon scanning, foresight and data analysis for colleagues and partners.

• 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

Tapping into new data sources 

• Set up partnerships with private sector companies including mobile network operators among others to gain access to anonymized data sets that can be used for sustainable development.

• Demonstrate through exploratory tests the utility of new data sources for UNDP’s development work

• Create partnerships for analyses of real time and other data to better inform decisions and policies

• Design and deliver workshops, tools, or platforms that tap into the collective intelligence of communities and mobilise action.

• Proactively manage risks with using data and technology, including those related to ethics and privacy

• Transform unstructured data sets into insights for UNDP and partners

Working out loud 

• Share findings from the exploration on future trends, new methodologies/approaches, potential partnership,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.

• 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

Organizational learning and interface with the core business of UNDP

• Set up tools and partnerships to ransform information into actionable intelligence

• 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

• Work together with your Accelerator Lab colleagues and experts to codify and advance the Accelerator Lab practice and exploration in particular.

• Organize and implement knowledge sharing and network events;

• Lead other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab

• Design and deliver engaging and meaningful methods for reflection on learning from explorations

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