Innovation Manager (UPSHIFT Global Lead), P4, TA, Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden

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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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 fulfil 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.

Yet the current pace of progress for children will not get us to children-related SDGs targets. This, if left unaddressed, will leave tens of million children behind. Unprotected. Uneducated. Unfed. Unable to reach their full potential.

For every child, hope . . .

The Office of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyse 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 fine-tuning 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?

You will continue to scale the reach and impact of UPSHIFT as a global youth social innovation programme, delivering skills and opportunity for young people aged 10-24 globally.

You will work under the general direction of the P5 Senior Advisor, Innovation (Portfolio, Culture and Scale) and in close collaboration with the P4 Innovation Manager (Youth Innovation). The post is responsible for:

Scaling UPSHIFT through:

1. Implementation and regular adaption of the global strategy and plan for scaling UPSHIFT into systems in consultation with cross-sectorial specialists, experienced country offices and external partners
2. Proactively drive digital transformation as a key enabler for sustainable, scalable UPSHIFT models at country level

Supporting Country Offices:

1. Provide technical support and advice to UNICEF Country Offices rolling out UPSHIFT, enabling them to adapt and launch UPSHIFT pilots
2. Provide technical support and advice to UNICEF Country Offices implementing UPSHIFT and seeking to scale at national level
3. Manage the UPSHIFT global network as a dynamic and effective community of practice that supports south-south collaboration
4. Ensure the UPSHIFT SharePoint resources are up to date as a useful and used repository for Country Offices to build their capacity around UPSHIFT and save time and resources across the organization
5. Support delivery of regional and global UPSHIFT workshops

Enabling partnerships & communications:

1. Support development of the global UPSHIFT brand and internal and external communication activities around UPSHIFT
2. In collaboration with the Partnership & Comms team support UPSHIFT partnership activities for existing and new partners

Building evidence:

1. Continue to build the evidence base and evidence generation tools for UPSHIFT, including leading on KPI and other relevant internal and donor reporting for UPSHIFT

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

• An advanced university degree (Masters or higher) in Social Sciences, Humanities, International Relations, Economics, Business or other relevant field. A first degree plus an additional 2 years’ experience, may be accepted in lieu of a Master’s degree.
• A minimum of 8 years of professional work experience in a relevant field, such as international development, innovation, social innovation or entrepreneurship.
• Direct experience of developing and delivering UPSHIFT programmes within UNICEF, including training of UPSHIFT trainers.
• Experience in working with organizations focused on engaging and empowering adolescents and youth, especially the most marginalized.
• Experience in deploying digital platforms, tools and approaches in support of skills programmes.
• Experience in working with multiple countries and with multiple stakeholders.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge and fluency of another UN language (French or Spanish) is highly desirable

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

• Innovates and embraces change (Level 3)

• Maintains and builds partnerships (Level 2)

• Thinks and acts strategically (Level 2)

• Drive to achieve results for impact (Level 2)

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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.