Innovation Strategy Consultant

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ABOUT WFP

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. We are currently seeking to fill an Innovation Strategy Consultant position in the INKA division, based in Munich, Germany.

Brief description of WFP Innovation Accelerator, INKA:

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations frontline agency fighting hunger. WFP reaches more than 100 million people every day - delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with smallholder farmers, communities, and governments to improve nutrition and build resilience.

The WFP Innovation Accelerator was named by Fast Company as Most Innovative Non-Profit Organization 2021 for its work in identifying, nurturing, and scaling disruptive start-ups and innovations to end global hunger. Based in Munich, Germany, the Innovation Accelerator provides WFP employees and start-ups with funding, hands-on support, and access to WFP’s global operations. Through the Accelerator, WFP is leveraging unprecedented advances in digital innovation - such as mobile technology, artificial intelligence, and blockchain - and new business models to transform the way it serves vulnerable communities across the world. In 2021, Accelerator supported innovations that positively impacted the lives of 9 million people globally. Most recently, the Accelerator runs programs for external partners such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others.

More information here: http://innovation.wfp.org and https://youtu.be/OnKkQlRdh2

About the Project:

Fortification of staples and condiments has historically had a disproportionate focus on large scale food businesses. However, only a small proportion of food is processed in large mills with the mandate and technology to fortify their flour. The majority of consumers in East Africa and Asia, from 50% to as high as 95% in some countries, consume milled staples processed by thousands of small mills across the region. In order to increase fortification among smaller food businesses we need to develop a strategy to build a cost-neutralizing business model to address the main barriers to small scale fortification, allowing for rapid uptake by mills that serve consumers not reached by large-scale fortification.

General Information:

• Job title: Innovation Strategy Consultant
• Unit: Innovation Accelerator, Innovation and Knowledge Management Division (INKA)
• Country: Germany
• Duty Station: Munich
• Initial contract duration: 5 months (extendable)
• Expected Start Date: 01.12.2022

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

The incumbent, reporting to the Head of Scale Up Enablement, is expected to deliver a final strategy for expansion of small-scale milling operations.

1. Market Analysis

• Support ecosystem actors in implementing market lead lean data collection for market analysis, including mill mapping, customer research, retail dynamics and consumption patterns;
• Build capacities to support relevant scale-up innovations in executing lean data collection for Small Scale milling;
• Onboard stakeholders and decision-makers, including and not restricted to Governments, WFP Country Offices and local Fortification initiatives, in select geographies to validate the small-scale milling data;
• Develop and execute a work plan to implement parallel data collection in multiple geographies; a. Analyze trends & future foresights incl strategic implications of the existing initiatives and the future of small-scale fortification;
• Consolidate existing information to lead evidence-based decision making on the topics of small-scale fortification.

2. Business Strategy Development

• Analyze available and newly collected data - to structure data modeling to develop a business strategy for small scale milling;
• Following the Innovation process - to ideate and build concepts for testing the business model in 5 different geographies;
• Create an MVP solution to be tested.

3. Business Strategy Implementation

• Analyze market economics to build an investment case for small scale milling businesses;
• Operationalize Small-Scale Fortification Expansion;
• Build organizational capacity to support multi country scale;
• Onboard and convene national stakeholders to accredit and endorse the small-scale fortification solution for small scale milling.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education: Bachelor’s degree. Master’s degree is a plus

Experience: At least 5 years of progressively responsible international experience in a strategy role, including in a start-up or corporate, innovations in private businesses or innovations in the humanitarian or international development sector. Direct experience in strategy development or consulting is a must. Experience in developing strategies in the African continent is a plus.

Languages: Fluency in oral and written English is mandatory. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages) is considered advantageous.

REQUIRED SKILLS | WFP COMPETENCIES

• Passion and understanding of innovation in Nutrition (e.g., products, services and initiatives) and business model innovations (e.g. innovative finance, sharing economy).
• Experience in strategic consulting specifically for public health interventions.
• Worked or led cross-functionally and get things done in a scrappy and hands-on way.
• Experience working in a large scale-organization or with a client/in partnership with a large-scale organization.
• Proven track record of driving products and projects - effectively delivering impactful elements of projects in a fast-moving environment, ideally for new businesses, new business models, start-ups etc.
• Able to generate new and original solutions to complex problems and to design new products ideas.
• Strong conceptual thinking to develop new strategies & innovative products and projects.
• Able to interact with a broad range of stakeholders and external audience with maturity and tact.
• Excellent communication/presentation skills, with the ability to write strategy documents, to develop business plans and to write and deliver presentations.
• Collaborative spirit, able to partner with a wide range of people at all levels and across different cultures and to act with credibility and diplomacy.
• Self-motivated and able to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Sets high-level of ambition for the project and own work to achieve impact for the hungry people we serve.
• Fully committed and motivated to achieve the aims of the UN World Food Programme.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

WFP offers a competitive compensation package which will be determined by the contract type and selected candidate’s qualifications and experience.

Please visit the following website for detailed information on working with WFP: http://www.wfp.org

Click on: “Our work” and “Countries” to learn more about WFP’s operations.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

Closing Date: 30 October 2022

VA Reference number: 176504

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Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply. WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.

WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will therefore undergo rigorous background verification internally or through third parties. Selected candidates will also be required to provide additional information as part of the verification exercise. Misrepresentation of information provided during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment

WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process including at the offer stage. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.