Innovation Specialist (Drones), P3, TA, Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden (Post # 119843)

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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, a future....

The Office of Innovation’s Venture Fund is a pooled funding vehicle specially designed to finance early stage, open-source technology that can benefit children. The core motivation of the Innovation Fund is to identify clusters or portfolios of initiatives around emerging technology – so that UNICEF can both shape markets and learn about and guide these technologies to benefit children. We invest in solutions that can impact the lives of the most vulnerable children.

UNICEF has identified drone technology and drone-based services as a means to strengthen and improve its work in global health and community resilience. The Office of Innovation, in collaboration with the UNICEF ICT Directorate, is supporting the organization to better understand these opportunities, address key considerations on the use of drones, and craft a practical way forward for UNICEF to globally leverage this technology in protecting and advancing the rights of children.

UNICEF has established implementation hubs to test drones for humanitarian and development applications. These hubs provide new platforms for data collection, stakeholder engagement and youth capacity building.

Through the UNICEF Venture Fund, UNICEF has invested in six drone startups developing open source software and hardware solutions to support the use of UAS in humanitarian use cases. These seed investments to entrepreneurs will accelerate the development of digital public goods in the drone technology sector. These digital public goods can be either the design and blueprints to build low-cost and long-endurance drones for the delivery of medical supplies under an open-source license, or open-source algorithms to model precipitation and floods that help to better identify households at risk. In collaboration with the DPG Alliance, UNICEF has launched an open-source toolkit to make more accessible drone-related software, data, designs and content.

How can you make a difference?

The UNICEF Office of Innovation (OOI) is looking for a Drones Lead to provide technical and strategic coordination to the drones-related engagements of the Ventures team.

In close collaboration with other members of the Ventures team, develop and execute the Ventures’ team’s engagement strategy as a priority frontier technology area.

  • Identifying and monitor new trends for exploration, capturing where relevant for internal learning.
  • Communicate strategy internally and externally, as well as learning learned from ongoing work.
  • Track progress against set targets and adjust as needed in response to organizational needs and external trends.
  • Identify and coordinate financial and technical resources and capacity required.

Act as a project manager related to specific UAV initiatives led by UNICEF, when UNICEF itself is looking to use emerging technology.

  • Support Country Office pilots related to imagery, connectivity and, in collaboration with Supply Division, delivery.
  • Identify and support opportunities to leverage drone technology in collaboration with ICTD, EMOPS and Programme Group.
  • Oversee the development and maintenance of any UAV-related products managed by the Ventures team, including coordination of any related technical resources and capacity on the team.

Guide the Venture Fund’s investment strategy on UAVs.

  • Identify and support promising solutions at early stage and support sourcing and selection efforts.
  • Provide technical assistance to solutions receiving support from the Venture Fund – at seed and growth stages.
  • Facilitate access to networks, technical expertise and other resources for Fund supported solutions.

Act as a technical advisor to UNICEF related initiatives that require UAV-related input, in collaboration with other Divisions such as ICTD, EMOPS and PG and regional office colleagues.

  • Support Country Office engagements with government partners on national pilots and establishment of testing corridors.
  • Develop and disseminate relevant technical standards, toolkits, and other relevant capacity building tools.
  • Act as focal point on relevant internal and UN-wide working groups.
  • Advise, as requested, any HQ-led initiatives with relevant Divisions.
  • Capture experiences and lessons from across initiatives and early-stage pilots for dissemination internally and externally.

External representation for advocacy and partnership building purposes.

  • In close collaboration with OOI’s partnership and communications team, identify partnership opportunities, develop offerings, and manage collaborations.
  • Lead any external representation with technical partners and platforms relevant to this role, including for advocacy purposes.
  • Develop OOI’s key messages and engagement platform to shape UAV-related technical standards and practice among private sectors, government partners and other relevant stakeholders.

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

Education: An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in engineering, physics, aeronautics, business administration or other relevant fields.

*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 five years of relevant professional experience in technology product development, project, and partnership management.

  • Demonstrated experience in project management related to unmanned aerial technologies.
  • Experience with government relations (Civil Aviation Authorities, Telecommunication Authorities, Ministries of Health, Transport, Education, among others).
  • Knowledge or experience of the commercial drone industry and with UAS regulations and frameworks.
  • Familiarity with open-source principles and digital public goods.
  • Piloting and scaling of technology solutions in UNICEF programme countries desired
  • Experience engaging with stakeholders from different backgrounds and coordinating multi stakeholder activities.
  • Demonstrated outstanding analytical and quantitative skills, and the ability to conduct independent research.
  • Experience managing a decentralized team.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate clearly complex issues for a non-technical audience.
  • Familiarity with international development.
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.

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

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

  • Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness
  • Works Collaboratively with others
  • Builds and Maintains Partnerships
  • Innovates and Embraces Change
  • Thinks and Acts Strategically
  • Drive to achieve impactful results
  • Manages ambiguity and complexity
  • Applying technical expertise
  • Communication

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.

Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: unicef.org