Consultancy - Innovation Governance Lead, Office of Innovation, Home-based, 11.5 months, REQ

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, innovate

The Office of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyze UNICEF and partners’ expertise and resources to solve key challenges facing children and young people, with a view to sourcing, accelerating and scaling the most effective solutions to accelerate progress towards achieving the SDGs. To achieve this the Office of Innovation uses an innovation portfolio management approach and leverages support from a range of stakeholders including from intergovernmental, multilateral, private sector, young people and non-governmental fora (think tank, academia). The Office of Innovation is able to evaluate, fund and provide technical support and resources to key transformative innovations. How these decisions are made is critical to the success of the work and therefore the impact on children’s lives.

How can you make a difference?

The Innovation Governance consultant, leads development, consultation and early implementation of UNICEF’s governance approach to innovation at UNICEF globally and innovation portfolios bringing innovation strategy to life in a way that enables decision making and focuses investment into the solutions that have greatest potential to accelerate progress towards solving child-centred SDGs across all types of innovation while also encouraging UNICEF teams to take calculated risks to innovate.

This role will work under the guidance and direction of the Senior Advisor, Innovation (Portfolio, Culture and Scale), and in close collaboration with relevant Innovation Hub leads and Portfolio Managers and with an extensive network across UNICEF divisions, Regional offices and country teams.

To succeed you will be a highly strategic thinker and communicator, with an eye for detail and the ability to effectively build relationships and collaboration at all levels and across different disciplines.

Your main responsibilities will be:

  1. Continuous improvement of UNICEF’s global approach to innovation portfolio management governance, including developing Standard Operating Procedures that outline stage gates, criteria and process for exit and entry into the innovation pipeline.
  2. Develop guidance documents, capacity building and technical assistance across Innovation Hubs / Portfolios, HQ, Regional Offices and Country Offices to support their governance needs, decision making and accountability needs, including tailoring global portfolio management principles and processes to country and regional level.
  3. Carry out consultations and workshops to design governance frameworks in different contexts (region, global, thematic etc)
  4. Lead the evolution of UNICEF governance frameworks for innovation at all geographic levels and forms of innovation of the organisation.
  5. Review the Innovation Portfolio Steering Committee (IPSC) which is chaired by P5 Senior Adviser Innovation (IPCS), including its membership, convening, communication and functioning. The IPSC purpose is to provide strategic guidance and support OOI in its accountability to enable UNICEF to maximize its impact in innovation through the development, operationalization, and active management of UNICEF’s programme-led, problem-focused portfolio approach to innovation.
  6. Deliver clear and effective engagement across UNICEF to support communication around governance and the innovation portfolios and their value proposition, with the aim of supporting staff engagement, particularly from Country and Regional Offices.
  7. Respond to country office requests for support to help put governance processes in place that encourages innovation and calculated risk taking.
  8. Work with the Senior Advisor, Innovation on documentation and governance process development for all areas of innovation at UNICEF.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

  • An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in one of the following fields is required: Social Science or Humanities, Innovation-related field, International Relations, Business Administration, or another relevant technical field *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
  • A minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience is required at national and international levels in the areas of innovation and/or social and economic development and cooperation.
  • Demonstrated expertise in innovation practice, spanning start-up to scaling innovations, especially in the social and/or development sectors
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
  • Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Duty Station

Stockholm, Sweden or Remote (Home-based). Candidate is expected to be available during working hours in the Europe time zones.

Duration 11.5 months.

Proposed Payment Schedule

Payments will be made monthly. The proposed rate should inclusive of all professional fees, daily allowances, living allowances, and other administrative costs and should assume a full-time commitment. A consultant is eligible for standard DSA for all work-related travel.

Insurance: Consultants and individual contractors are fully responsible for arranging, at their own expense, all insurance, such as life, health and other forms of insurance, covering the period of their services as they consider appropriate. They are required to certify that they are covered by medical/health insurance.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

Core Competencies:

  • Innovates and embraces change (Level 2)
  • Drive to achieve results for impact (Level 2)
  • Builds and maintains partnerships (Level 2)
  • Thinks and acts strategically (Level 2)
  • Works collaboratively with others (Level 2)

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

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