Programme Assistant

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 UN Youth Volunteer Programme 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;
• 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);
• 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;
• Support 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;
• Assist in mapping potential partners across the public and private sectors with versatile expertise to strengthen the Lab’s capacities for acceleration thereby expanding the Lab’s distributed network both nationally and internationally;
• Help in Identifying new sources of evidence and insights, analyze and visualize patterns in unstructured sources of data, present new insights in accessible and comprehensive ways to enable sensemaking and analysis;
• Support the design and delivery of horizon scanning trainings for partners and UNDP, help embed horizon scanning and attention to the ‘edge’ activities in the CO and with the partners;
• Participate in organizing and implementing knowledge sharing and network events;
• Contribute to other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab.

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: Development programme/project administration 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.