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Design Research Assistant

Amman

  • Organization: UNV - United Nations Volunteers
  • Location: Amman
  • Grade: Volunteer - National Youth - Locally recruited Volunteer
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Administrative support
    • Scientist and Researcher
  • Closing Date: Closed

Eligibility criteria

Candidate age: between 18 and 29 throughout the entire duration of their assignment. Applicants must be nationals of or legal residents in the country of assignment.

Description of task

Under the direct supervision of Innovation Specialist, the National UN Youth Volunteer Design Research Assistant will be responsible for the following tasks:

  • Support developing and sustaining positive relationships with a range of local community and citizen groups;
  • Help in 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;
  • Assist in the translation of ethnographic and field research findings into learning and action for the acceleration lab activities;
  • Contribute to the designing 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;
  • Contribute to exploring, documenting and increasing understanding of emerging methods of tapping into collective intelligence for sustainable development;
  • Assist in designing criteria/metrics for assessing consolidating incoming local solutions;
  • Conducting field research to determine best methods for making local solutions transferable;
  • Facilitate testing of solutions and potential ideas in real-life context to understand potential channels of spreading (including identifying private and public sector venues for uptake);
  • Design of ‘things and tools’ needed to successful scale indigenous knowledge, lead user solutions, turning its insights into systemic change;
  • Design methods for integrating collective intelligence into UNDP programmes and engage with programme and project managers to translate ideas into concrete practice;
  • Provide support to 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 behavioural 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
  • 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
Qualifications/Requirements Required degree level: Bachelor degree or equivalent Education - Additional Comments:
  • Undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field
Required experience: Experience remark:
  • Demonstrated interest and/or experience in project support.
  • Previous experience as a volunteer and/or experience of another culture, (i.e. studies, volunteer work, internship) would be highly regarded
Language skills:
  • English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent
  • Arabic(Mandatory), Level - Fluent
Area of expertise: Other development programme/project experience Driving license: No Competencies values:

Accountability, Adaptability and Flexibility, Commitment and Motivation, Commitment to Continuous Learning, Communication, Creativity, Respect for Diversity, Self-Management, Technological Awareness, Working in Teams

Application procedure:

* Not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

Please first register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup. Important: After creating your account, complete all sections of your profile and submit it. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink. Lastly, select the special call to which you would like to apply.

* Already registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

Please first update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to which you would like to apply.

This is a national UN Volunteer assignment, therefore only nationals of Jordan and legal residents in Jordan with the status of refugee or with the status of being stateless are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: 20-Jan-2020.

This vacancy is now closed.
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