Jobs in Egypt - Head of Solutions Mapping at UNDP

Head of Solutions Mapping at UNDP

Location: Cournich El Nil

Deadline: 25-May-2020

Job Requirements:

Education:

• Master’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Architecture, Communications 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 Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Architecture, Communications 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:
  • Demonstrated ability to undertake field research in remote communities and document ethnographic evidence and honor expertise in unusual places
  • Demonstrate ability to work in participatory methods, follow the lead of people as experts in their own sustainable development

  Experience in following areas is desirable but not necessary:
  • Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation.
  • Proven professional knowledge and experience in approaches such as Ethnography, Systems Thinking, Behavioral Insights, Co-creation, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, Positive Deviance, Community Asset Mapping, Service Design or Human Centered Design
  • Demonstrated ability to work with partners to help surface unarticulated needs
  • Proven ability to design ethical frameworks for managing public sector experiments

  Language Requirements:
  Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Job Description:
Lead lab efforts in deep community immersion, collective intelligence and solutions mapping:

• Developing and sustaining positive relationships with a range of local community and citizen groups
• Identifying and training local volunteers, recruiting Universities and think tanks for sustaining long term community outreach and engagement and identification of lead users, providing training and mentoring
• Translaton of ethnographic and field research findings into learning and action for the Accelerator Lab activities
• Design specific field research and participatory methods to focus on the most vulnerable populations and those not usually engaged in public policy debates on development methods
• Explore, document and increase understanding on emerging methods of tapping into bottom up solutions, lead users and grassroots innovations related to sustainable development
• Convene a broad range of new partners with UNDP including artists, community organizers and emergent movements to explore areas for collaboration on sustainable development
• Proactively manage risks with using ethnograpic tools and methods, including those related to ethics and privacy

Convene the processes of solution intake, assessment and designing prototypes for diffusion:

• Design and implement methods for sensing and building on indigenous knowledge and local solutions, consolidating, screening and describing incoming
• Design criteria for consolidating incoming local solutions
• Conduct field research to determine best methods fo making solutions transferable, design methods to test and stretch ideas for their applicability and diffusion as part of a portfolio approach.
• Test the solutions and potential ideas in real life context to understand potential channels of spreading (including identifying private and public sector venues for uptake)
• Analyse system level issues that local solutions address (and those that they don’t address, therefore creating insights on the gaps)
• Design ‘things and tools’ needed to successful scale indigenous knowledge, lead user solutions, turning its insights into systemic change.
• Advise on the accelerator lab’s experiment portfolio to ensure experiments are designed based on people’s knowledge, behaviors and peer to peer methods of managing and diffusing knowledge about sustainable development issues.
• Design methods for integrating collective intellengence into UNDP programmes and engage with programme and project managers to translate ideas into concrete practice

Working out loud:

• Lead communication efforts and proactively use blog and social media to share findings from field research
• Ensure UNDP’s communication efforts respect privacy and ethics considerations
• Liaise with the broader Accelerator Lab network and the support team to 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
• 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.

Advocacy, Organizational learning and interface with the core business of UNDP:

• Help embed solutions mapping and lead user methodology within the CO portfolio, design and provide trainings that include various methodologies and steps to identify and work with lead users
• 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;
• Develop communication and other tools to transform field research into actionaable intelligence
• Work together with your Accelerator Lab colleagues and experts to codify and advance the Accelerator Lab practice and solutions mapping in particular.
• 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 field research and grassroots innovation.

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