Head of Solution Mapping
Dar es Salaam
- Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
- Location: Dar es Salaam
- Grade: Junior level - NO-B, National Professional Officer - Locally recruited position
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Occupational Groups:
- Operations and Administrations
- Civil Society and Local governance
- Managerial positions
- ACCELERATOR LAB
- ACCELERATOR LAB, Capacity Development
- Closing Date: Closed
Background
- Building on locally-sourced solutions, finding things that work and expanding on them;
- Rapid testing and iteration to implement what works and go beyond the obvious solutions;
- Combining the best understanding, ideas and expertise to generate collective knowledge;
- Accelerating progress by bringing expertise, creativity and collective intelligence to bear.
Duties and Responsibilities
- 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;
- Translation of ethnographic and field research findings into learning and action for the acceleration 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 collective intelligence for sustainable development.
- Designing and implementing methodology for intaking indigenous knowledge and local solutions, consolidating, screening and further describing incoming ideas;
- Designing a criteria/metrics for assessing consolidating incoming local solutions;
- Conducting field research to determine best methods fo making solutions transferable;
- Testing the solutions and potential ideas in real life context to understand potential channels of spreading (including identifying private and public sector venues for uptake);
- Analysis of system level issues that local solutions address (and dont address, therefore exposing gaps);
- Design of ‘things and tools’ needed to successful scale indigenous knowledge, lead user solutions, turning its insights into systemic change;
- Ensure that collective intelligence is integrated into UNDP programmes.
- 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;
- Ensure ethics framework is implemented for the lab’s portfolio of experiments;
- Design methods to test accelerator ideas for their applicability and diffusion;
- Integrate cultural norms, peer to peer methods and behaviorial insights into technology-based experiments;
- Convene a broad range of new partners with UNDP including artists, community organizers and emergent movements to explore areas for collaboration on sustainable development .
- 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;
- Help embed solutions mapping lead user methodology within the CO portfolio, design and provide trainings that include various methodologies and steps to identify and work with lead users.
Competencies
Required Skills and Experience
- Master’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Economics, Business, Design, 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;
- Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, 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;
Expereince:
- Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation;
- Proven professional knowledge and experience in approaches such as Ethnography, behavioral insights, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, service journeys or human centered design;
- Demonstrated ability to work with partners to help surface unarticulated needs;
- Demonstrated ability to undertake field research in remote communities;
- Demonstrate ability to work in participatory methods, follow the lead of people as experts in their own sustainable development;
- Proven ability to design ethical frameworks for managing public sector experiments;
- Knowledge and willingness to follow and document ethnographic evidence and honor expertise in usual places;
Language:
- Proficiency in written and spoken English.
Others:
- 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;
- Ethnography: deep 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 (direct collaboration with the Experimentation Lead), and connects local dynamics and solutions (link with the Ethnography Lead) 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.
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