Job ID
22905
Job Title
30511 - Head of Solutions Mapping NO-B
To work for
UNDP | United Nations Devleopment Programme
Country
Syria
City
Damascus
Field of Work
Humanitarian/Disasters
Job Type
Full time
Military service
Not Specified
Minimum Education Level
Bachelor/ License Degree
Responsibilities
Lead lab efforts in deep community immersion, collective intelligence and solutions mapping
Developing and sustaining positive relationships with a range of local community and citizen groups;
Identifying and training local volunteers, recruiting Universities and think tanks for sustaining long term community outreach and engagement and identification of lead users, providing training and mentoring;
Translaton of ethnographic and field research findings into learning and action for the Accelerator Lab activities;
Design specific field research and participatory methods to focus on the most vulnerable populations and those not usually engaged in public policy debates on development methods;
Explore, document and increase understanding on emerging methods of tapping into bottom up solutions, lead users and grassroots innovations related to sustainable development;
Convene a broad range of new partners with UNDP including artists, community organizers and emergent movements to explore areas for collaboration on sustainable development.
Proactively manage risks with using ethnograpic tools and methods, including those related to ethics and privacy
Convene the processes of solution intake, assessment and designing prototypes for diffusion
Design and implement methods for sensing and building on indigenous knowledge and local solutions, consolidating, screening and describing incoming;
Design criteria for consolidating incoming local solutions;
Conduct field research to determine best methods fo making solutions transferable, design methods to test and stretch ideas for their applicability and diffusion as part of a portfolio approach;
Test the solutions and potential ideas in real life context to understand potential channels of spreading (including identifying private and public sector venues for uptake);
Analyse system level issues that local solutions address (and those that they don’t address, therefore creating insights on the gaps);
Design ‘things and tools’ needed to successful scale indigenous knowledge, lead user solutions, turning its insights into systemic change;
Advise on the accelerator lab’s experiment portfolio to ensure experiments are designed based on people’s knowledge, behaviors and peer to peer methods of managing and diffusing knowledge about sustainable development issues;
Design methods for integrating collective intellengence into UNDP programmes and engage with programme and project managers to translate ideas into concrete practice.
Working out loud
Lead communication efforts and proactively use blog and social media to share findings from field research;
Ensure UNDP’s communication efforts respect privacy and ethics considerations;
Liaise with the broader Accelerator Lab network and the support team to share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience;
Jointly with the CO, support lab partners to develop an emerging pipeline of new initiatives, support other activities related to the design and operation of the Lab;
Proactively use blog posts and social media to share insights, attract partners and help position Accelerator Lab at the forefront of the exploration of new trends.
Advocacy, Organizational learning and interface with the core business of UNDP
Help embed solutions mapping and lead user methodology within the CO portfolio, design and provide trainings that include various methodologies and steps to identify and work with lead users;
Provide technical consultation and training for national partners and the CO through various phases including asset mapping, developing a strategic portfolio logic, experiment design, prototype testing, and evaluation;
Develop communication and other tools to transform field research into actionaable intelligence;
Work together with your Accelerator Lab colleagues and experts to codify and advance the Accelerator Lab practice and solutions mapping in particular;
Lead other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab;
Design and deliver engaging and meaningful methods for reflection on learning from field research and grassroots innovation.
Developing and sustaining positive relationships with a range of local community and citizen groups;
Identifying and training local volunteers, recruiting Universities and think tanks for sustaining long term community outreach and engagement and identification of lead users, providing training and mentoring;
Translaton of ethnographic and field research findings into learning and action for the Accelerator Lab activities;
Design specific field research and participatory methods to focus on the most vulnerable populations and those not usually engaged in public policy debates on development methods;
Explore, document and increase understanding on emerging methods of tapping into bottom up solutions, lead users and grassroots innovations related to sustainable development;
Convene a broad range of new partners with UNDP including artists, community organizers and emergent movements to explore areas for collaboration on sustainable development.
Proactively manage risks with using ethnograpic tools and methods, including those related to ethics and privacy
Convene the processes of solution intake, assessment and designing prototypes for diffusion
Design and implement methods for sensing and building on indigenous knowledge and local solutions, consolidating, screening and describing incoming;
Design criteria for consolidating incoming local solutions;
Conduct field research to determine best methods fo making solutions transferable, design methods to test and stretch ideas for their applicability and diffusion as part of a portfolio approach;
Test the solutions and potential ideas in real life context to understand potential channels of spreading (including identifying private and public sector venues for uptake);
Analyse system level issues that local solutions address (and those that they don’t address, therefore creating insights on the gaps);
Design ‘things and tools’ needed to successful scale indigenous knowledge, lead user solutions, turning its insights into systemic change;
Advise on the accelerator lab’s experiment portfolio to ensure experiments are designed based on people’s knowledge, behaviors and peer to peer methods of managing and diffusing knowledge about sustainable development issues;
Design methods for integrating collective intellengence into UNDP programmes and engage with programme and project managers to translate ideas into concrete practice.
Working out loud
Lead communication efforts and proactively use blog and social media to share findings from field research;
Ensure UNDP’s communication efforts respect privacy and ethics considerations;
Liaise with the broader Accelerator Lab network and the support team to share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience;
Jointly with the CO, support lab partners to develop an emerging pipeline of new initiatives, support other activities related to the design and operation of the Lab;
Proactively use blog posts and social media to share insights, attract partners and help position Accelerator Lab at the forefront of the exploration of new trends.
Advocacy, Organizational learning and interface with the core business of UNDP
Help embed solutions mapping and lead user methodology within the CO portfolio, design and provide trainings that include various methodologies and steps to identify and work with lead users;
Provide technical consultation and training for national partners and the CO through various phases including asset mapping, developing a strategic portfolio logic, experiment design, prototype testing, and evaluation;
Develop communication and other tools to transform field research into actionaable intelligence;
Work together with your Accelerator Lab colleagues and experts to codify and advance the Accelerator Lab practice and solutions mapping in particular;
Lead other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab;
Design and deliver engaging and meaningful methods for reflection on learning from field research and grassroots innovation.
Qualifications
Education:
Master's degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Architecture, Communications or related field and minimum of 2 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization.
OR
Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Architecture, Communications or related field and minimum of 4 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization.
Experience:
Demonstrated ability to undertake field research in remote communities and document ethnographic evidence and honor expertise in unusual places;
Demonstrate ability to work in participatory methods, follow the lead of people as experts in their own sustainable development.
Experience in following areas is desirable but not necessary:
Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation;
Proven professional knowledge and experience in approaches such as Ethnography, Systems Thinking, Behavioral Insights, Co-creation, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, Positive Deviance, Community Asset Mapping, Service Design or Human Centered Design;
Demonstrated ability to work with partners to help surface unarticulated needs;
Proven ability to design ethical frameworks for managing public sector experiments.
Language Requirements:
Proficiency in written and spoken Arabic and English.
Other:
The Accelerator Labs will be comprised of a core team with niche capabilities that focus on exploration, experimentation and grassroots innovation. Within the first 6-8 months of the Lab fully functioning, each member of the Core team will take the lead on one of the following functions:
Coordination
Training
Communications
The Core team of the Accelerator lab will have capabilities in:
Experimentation (instituting rapid learning about emerging challenges through design and running of a portfolio of experiments that is coherent with the type of challenges that are part of UNDP’s strategic plan, and
Mapping Solutions: ethnographic methods and immersion in community dynamics, identification of and work with lead users, and implications of bottom up solutions for the policy design;
Exploration: The exploration function focuses on discovery and sensemaking of emerging trends, implications for systemic impacts and risks, and their potential for accelerating progress toward SDGs. Its work feeds into the portfolio of experiments ensuring its coherence with the emerging risks and opportunities and connects local dynamics and solutions into the broader national and international ecosystem of potential funders, partners, and allies thereby increasing the chances for acceleration. While critical for the functioning of the Accelerator Lab, the exploration function will also service the Country Office as determined and agreed with the UNDP senior management.
Master's degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Architecture, Communications or related field and minimum of 2 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization.
OR
Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Architecture, Communications or related field and minimum of 4 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization.
Experience:
Demonstrated ability to undertake field research in remote communities and document ethnographic evidence and honor expertise in unusual places;
Demonstrate ability to work in participatory methods, follow the lead of people as experts in their own sustainable development.
Experience in following areas is desirable but not necessary:
Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation;
Proven professional knowledge and experience in approaches such as Ethnography, Systems Thinking, Behavioral Insights, Co-creation, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, Positive Deviance, Community Asset Mapping, Service Design or Human Centered Design;
Demonstrated ability to work with partners to help surface unarticulated needs;
Proven ability to design ethical frameworks for managing public sector experiments.
Language Requirements:
Proficiency in written and spoken Arabic and English.
Other:
The Accelerator Labs will be comprised of a core team with niche capabilities that focus on exploration, experimentation and grassroots innovation. Within the first 6-8 months of the Lab fully functioning, each member of the Core team will take the lead on one of the following functions:
Coordination
Training
Communications
The Core team of the Accelerator lab will have capabilities in:
Experimentation (instituting rapid learning about emerging challenges through design and running of a portfolio of experiments that is coherent with the type of challenges that are part of UNDP’s strategic plan, and
Mapping Solutions: ethnographic methods and immersion in community dynamics, identification of and work with lead users, and implications of bottom up solutions for the policy design;
Exploration: The exploration function focuses on discovery and sensemaking of emerging trends, implications for systemic impacts and risks, and their potential for accelerating progress toward SDGs. Its work feeds into the portfolio of experiments ensuring its coherence with the emerging risks and opportunities and connects local dynamics and solutions into the broader national and international ecosystem of potential funders, partners, and allies thereby increasing the chances for acceleration. While critical for the functioning of the Accelerator Lab, the exploration function will also service the Country Office as determined and agreed with the UNDP senior management.
Specific Vacancy Requirements
All applications must be submitted via UNDP Job Portal ONLY
Vacancy End Date : 03 June 2020 (midnight New York, USA).
Vacancy End Date : 03 June 2020 (midnight New York, USA).
Salary and Benefits
N/A
About us
UNDP has been active in Syria since 1975. UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. UNDP offers global perspective and local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
Since the onset of the crisis in Syria in 2011, UNDP has responded to the huge needs that emerged by implementing a unique resilience programme to support the Syrian people. UNDP goes beyond humanitarian assistance in the sense that it strengthens the resilience of the Syrian people by enhancing positive coping mechanisms, that enable them to rely on themselves and rebuild their livelihoods, rather than remain dependent on humanitarian assistance. Within the UN Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), UNDP’s interventions are focused on the rehabilitation of basic and social infrastructures, providing livelihoods support, enhancing economic recovery and social inclusion, and strengthening social cohesion.
Since the onset of the crisis in Syria in 2011, UNDP has responded to the huge needs that emerged by implementing a unique resilience programme to support the Syrian people. UNDP goes beyond humanitarian assistance in the sense that it strengthens the resilience of the Syrian people by enhancing positive coping mechanisms, that enable them to rely on themselves and rebuild their livelihoods, rather than remain dependent on humanitarian assistance. Within the UN Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), UNDP’s interventions are focused on the rehabilitation of basic and social infrastructures, providing livelihoods support, enhancing economic recovery and social inclusion, and strengthening social cohesion.
Required employees number
1
Posted On
May 07, 2020
Expiry Date
Jun 06, 2020
CV Language
English