Avis d’appel d’offres : Apprentissage stratégique et concepteur visuel en Thaïlande.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

Design and visualization of various products and processes that the team is involved in either directly or in supporting clients (Country Offices, partners, etc):

  • Develop compelling visual products (e.g. diagrams, system maps, data visualizations, animations) that can help senior management make sense of emerging trends from innovation work;
  • Help develop a visually distinctive stack of services and learning materials for the innovation team: templates, training materials, visualizations, journey maps, offers, etc., and support their wider adoption wherever relevant and feasible;
  • Generate new (digital, visual, analogue) forms in which to represent Regional Innovation team’s work both internally and externally.
  • Contribute to M&E and progress stock taking under Regional Innovation team workstreams;
  • Manage external engagement interfaces (eg. Medium channel)
  • Provide inputs into strategy and operations of the Regional Innovation team

Strategic innovation policy and program support to Country Offices (COs), other business units and clients that is focused on:

  • Horizon scanning of the emerging trends with potential implications for development and around the specific issues that COs are exploring with or have a need for;
  • Explore new methods and identify partners who are testing new ways of engaging with complex policy problems and dealing with uncertainty, with a particular focus on systems thinking, portfolio approaches, ways to understand power dynamics and involve marginalized groups
  • Provide support to Country Offices as they embark on journeys to revisit their portfolios and design new ones.
  • Jointly with the Strategic Innovation Designer, develop (with focus on visual facilitation and codification) and run capability building sessions with various UNDP teams around systems and portfolio approaches.

Generating intelligence from the experiences in the field:

  • Identify and summarise emerging patterns from COs work, looking for ways to foster connections and ensure greater coherence of the innovation portfolio over time;
  • Generate intelligence that can help guide the work of senior management and embed innovation work in the broader Regional GPN agenda;
  • Identify opportunities for translating experiences from one CO to others and explore, and identify means of delivering learning at speed and scale;
  • Workshop design and facilitation, ensuring that intelligence informs decision making across different levels of the organization;
  • Work out loud in an effort to share learnings to the broader strategic innovation community, create potential engagement opportunities.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in social science, economics or related field with specific focus on international development, communications, and/or innovation.

Experience: 

  • 5 years of professional working experience in relevant fields related to international development for candidates with a Master’s degree or 7 years of professional working experience in relevant fields related to international development for candidates with a Bachelor’s degree
  • A minimum of 2 years of professional experience with innovation, systems and portfolio work with governments, donors, and/or development partners, would be highly desirable
  • At least, 2 years of experience in visual design would be an asset
  • Experience in design and visualization
  • Experience in providing innovation support to clients in public and private sector
  • Proven experience taking concepts and turning them into concrete products/offers and services
  • Capacity to engage with stakeholders, internal communities and groups of experts to strengthen visibility
  • Experience with, and knowledge of, international development, emerging technologies, system design, and social innovation an asset
  • Experience in innovation in developing countries or social impact and/or living or working in developing countries is a plus
  • Ability to make new and useful ideas work
  • Ability to persuade others to follow
  • Ability to improve performance and satisfaction
  • Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform
  • Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement
  • Professional knowledge and experience in social and public innovation approaches such as design thinking/human centered design, co-creation, systems thinking, ethnography, future thinking and foresight, and data analysis
  • Ability to translate new trends, emerging ideas into actionable intelligence

Required Languages:

  • Fluency in English is required. Working knowledge of a second UN official language will be an asset.

Application process

 Deadline : 2 May 2023