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This is a NO-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-3 contracts.

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, AN ADVOCATE...

India has many challenges to attain sustainable developmental goals. They range from the need for provision of basic needs such as clean energy, clean water, adequate and appropriate nutrition, health services, and enhancing access to education, livelihoods, economic opportunities, and broad societal goals such as removal of poverty, gender equality, peace and improved governance, and environmental sustainability. These challenges obviously are significant but fortunately new and improved technologies, combined with innovative delivery models, offer opportunities to address many of these challenges in a scalable manner, particularly in India, which is increasingly been seen as a global hub for innovation. Working with public, private sectors and academia, UNICEF can leverage suitable public policy and investments that can help with the process in terms of generation of solutions and then deploying them at scale.

Mobile and Social-networking technologies now offer the promise of new and agile ways to collaborate and make decisions including crisis response. There are many new tools available to collect, filter, integrate, fuse, analyze, map and visualize data and information. These emerging technologies represent an extraordinary opportunity to close the information gap, ensure that technology reaches the bottom of the pyramid, and provide decision makers the ability to achieve the sustainable development goals and protect the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. In view of the emerging programming environment, the position of Technology for Development Specialist (T4D) will lead the coordination and advancement of the overall innovation agenda of the office.

How can you make a difference?

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

  1. Policy and strategy development
  2. Partnerships
  3. Knowledge management
  4. Technical assistance
  5. Capacity building

Policy and Strategy Development:

Contribute to the development of an Innovation and technology for development (T4D) strategy for the country office, including assessment of Innovations and T4D gaps, opportunities, standards and develop a scale up strategy for India Country Office. Lead the development and oversee the quality assurance during the roll-out of the office-wide Innovation components and participate in setting up standards, documentation and mechanisms for Innovation / T4D agenda of the office. Within the Young People’s Agenda and also UNICEF’s commitment to Affected Populations in emergencies, this Programme Specialist will be responsible for convening key stakeholders within and outside of the office to formulate national strategies while liaising with the Regional Office and Office of Innovation.

Partnerships:

Raise awareness of potential partners and solutions to UNICEF India Programme community. Develop a catalogue of potential country specific Innovation and T4D partners and their profiles/areas of engagement in India to promote and enhance UNICEF India’s goals for outcomes for children through the use of Technology led innovations for Development. Develop clear and concise concept notes of each agreed Innovation / T4D initiatives and proposals for fund raising efforts. Manage partnerships with Mobile Network Operators. Support Communications and C4D on scale-up initiatives for U-Report and provide strategic guidance on digital communication and its utilisation across youth programming.

Knowledge management:

Support the collection of data, undertake analysis and prepare reports on existing initiatives, solutions, capture lessons learnt from Innovations and share resources available. Map all Innovation investments and resources. Ensure documentation and clear monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for innovation / T4D projects including baseline data collection, necessarily on-going monitoring, as well as first phase data collection and analysis.

Technical assistance:

Provide support and technical assistance to the Country Office in the identification, selection, concept design and roll-out and sustainability of Innovation / T4D interventions to address bottlenecks towards the achievement of programme results; Work with stakeholders to help develop standards, procedures and partnerships for T4D interventions and their transition to relevant Government and Civil Society Institutions. Assist programme sections to identify and assess new Innovation / T4D initiatives, or new phases of on-going initiatives, with immediate potential to improve UNICEF programming in service delivery and/or monitoring and evaluation.

Capacity building:

Build capacity of programme staff in analyzing the large amounts of data generated through Innovation / T4D initiatives, including the use of data visualization techniques and analytics tools. Provision local Business and Technical Analysis services to country & state offices to help define requirements, guidelines and sustainability for Innovation / T4D projects. Capacity building and understanding of T4D projects, particularly U-Report, within the office will be important to ensure programmes maximize potential use to improve UNICEF’s work. Manage and coordinate steering committees including NGOs, youth groups and state actors for youth related T4D initiatives such as U-Report India.

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

Education

An advanced university degree is required in Innovation, Information Technology, International Development, Business Administration, International Relations, Change Management, or other related field, or,

A university degree in a relevant field combined with at least seven (7) years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree

Experience

At least five (5) years professional experience is required in designing and implementing innovative solutions for large-scale technical projects – including supervising engineers and software developers; managing budgets, contracts and procurement.

Desirable Experience:

  • In a UN organization is an asset, as is understanding UNICEF programming.
  • In supporting and coordinating project activities across large organizations and with other international partner organizations.
  • In working and communicating with young people and community leaders.
  • With ICT hardware, mobile phones and web-based technologies in India, particularly designing or deploying technological solutions appropriate for difficult to reach areas.
  • With RapidPro, OpenSRP, DHIS2, ODK and other SMS or smartphones in deploying, maintaining and rolling-out of solutions based on mobile platforms is highly desirable.

Preferably have a hybrid background combining technical skills, and strong conceptual ability to integrate the capabilities of available technologies to produce Dashboards and other decision-making tools for organizational support.

Abilities to interact diplomatically with high-level officials, as well as experience working directly with community-level partners. Skills in Business Analysis and technical project management in ICT-led innovations.

Language

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of the local language of the duty station or another official UN language is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF Core Competencies required for this post are:

  • Builds and maintains partnerships (I)
  • Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (I)
  • Drive to achieve results for impact (I)
  • Innovates and embraces change (I)
  • Manages ambiguity and complexity (I)
  • Thinks and acts strategically (I)
  • Works collaboratively with others (I)

To view our competency framework, please click here.

Remarks:

  • This position is based in New Delhi (India).
  • The vacancy is open to internal and external candidates. As per the UNICEF Staff Selection Policy, the definition of “internal” is only applicable to UNICEF staff members holding a permanent, continuing or FT appointment.
  • The vacancy is open to Indian Nationals only.
  • Selected applicant will have an initial two (2) year fixed-term contract, with the possibility of extension subject to satisfactory performance.
  • Only shortlisted candidates will be notified and advance to the next stage of the selection process, which involves various assessments.
  • UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited / recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/.

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.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

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

For more information about UNICEF India, please refer to the link below: - http://unicef.in

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