Innovation Manager (Evidence, Performance & Programme management), P4, FTA, Office of Innovations, Stockholm, Sweden (#00117602)

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

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The salary for this job should be between 90,970 USD and 117,287 USD.

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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, hope

The Office of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyze UNICEF's and all its partners’ expertise and resources against key children-outcomes bottlenecks, with a view to continuously ideate and scale the most effective solutions with transformational potential at scale to achieve the child-related SDGs. The office is doing this by continuously exploring new ways of accelerating results for children, investing across a range of early stage solutions, and harnessing internal and external expertise towards continuously iterating and finetuning the most promising solutions for children through a systematic portfolio management approach, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation energy, knowhow and resources from intergovernmental, multilateral, private sector and non-governmental fora (think tank, academia).

How can you make a difference?

Under the general guidance and direction of the P5 Senior Adviser Innovation (PCS) , and in close collaboration with relevant innovation Hub leads and Portfolio Managers, the incumbent will be responsible for:

1. Developing and implement Monitoring, evaluation and evidence strategy, plan and its implementation for the Office of Innovation. 2. Create or identify externally and adapt, pilot and scale innovative approaches to building evidence around innovations that support organizational learning and scaling of innovations, and that capture results, return on investment and impact. 3. Develop learning, capacity building resources, and access to technical assistance to build awareness, competency in and diffusion of these. approaches to support their implementation across the organization. 4. Aggregate, track and accompany the various innovation MEEL activities and distill and facilitate regular communicate insights and learning. 5. Design and deliver events, learning opportunities and thought leadership contributions. 6. Create OOI performance management plan KPIs and their monitoring, corrective actions and reporting for all Portfolio-related KPIs from SP to OMP to Hub and Portfolio-specific indicators.

Key functions accountabilities and related duties/tasks: 1. Create OOI performance management plan and develop Hub and Portfolio KPIs with the guidance of P5 Senior Adviser Innovation (PCS) #89335. With P3 Innovation Specialist (Innovative PPME) #OOI21008, undertake monitoring, corrective actions and reporting for all Portfolio-related KPIs from SP to OMP to Hub and Portfolio-specific indicators.

2. Develop and implement Monitoring, evaluation and evidence generation strategy for the Office of Innovation ensuring that there is a well prioritized and realistic plan of research, monitoring and evaluation activities that support individual initiatives to build the evidence base for scale, whilst also leveraging cross-project, cross-portfolio and cross-hub leanings about innovation process, capacity and culture. Liaise with relevant divisions such as OOR on areas where there is a common agenda and work plan activities.

3. Engage actively in external networks and sources of new, innovative and effective evidence-building approaches and new ideas, exploring how these might be adapted or inform the creation of new evidence approaches for innovation in UNICEF. Create or identify externally and adapt, pilot and scale innovative approaches to building evidence around innovations that support organizational learning and scaling of innovations, and that capture results, return on investment and impact. Connect with evidence-generation colleagues within UNICEF in OOR, OE, Programme.

4. Working together with key stakeholders at HQ, RO and CO levels, create or adapt, pilot and scale innovative approaches to building evidence around innovations that support organizational learning and scaling of innovations.

5. Develop learning and capacity building resources, tool kits and experiences and build awareness, competency in and application of these approaches to support their implementation.

6 Develop mechanisms to support offices to apply these evidence methodologies appropriately, such as decision support to identify the appropriate mythologies, developing/leveraging LTAs or rosters of practitioners, TORs, technical assistance to office to support implementation.

7. Where required and in collaboration with portfolio managers, provide technical assistance to key innovation projects around evidence building strategies.

8. Aggregate, track and accompany the various Monitoring, evaluation, and evidence generation activities being undertaken across the Hubs, Portfolios and OOI Teams and the capture and communication of insights derived from individual activities and across the aggregate activities.

9. Develop a work practice and plan that regularly shares internally and externally what we are trying, learning, insights, working out loud etc. Design and deliver events, thought leadership and learning opportunities, in collaboration with P4 Innovation Manager (Engagement, Culture & Capacity) #OOI21006, and coordination with OOI Communication Team.

10. Working closely with the P5 and in supervision of the P3 role, ensure effective programme management is designed and implemented for all major funding streams that cut across multiple innovation portfolios, including (but not limited to) set aside investment funding and major partnerships secured for the innovation portfolios.

11. Production of thought leadership assets around measurement of innovation.

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

Education: Advanced university degree in social sciences or Humanities, Innovation-related field, International Relations, Business Administration, or another related 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.

Experience: • A minimum of eight (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. • Professional work experience in monitoring and evaluation activities, especially with a focus on measurement of innovations/innovation programmes, expertise in approaches such as Social Impact Assessment, LEAN impact, Adaptive learning models, Social blueprint/model canvas, an asset. • Strong analytical skills. • Experience in public advocacy, media engagements, and ability to produce intellectual leadership assets on innovation is an asset.

Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge and fluency of another UN language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (2) • Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2) • Works Collaboratively with others (2) • Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2) • Innovates and Embraces Change (2) • Thinks and Acts Strategically (2) • Drive to achieve impactful results (2) • Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

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UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

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