Titre du poste

Chargé(e) de Projet  

Superviseur hiérarchique

Program Manager/ Alert

Gestion de staff

Aucun

Lieu du travail

Kigali

Classification d’Emploi

Cadre de collaboration

Durée du contrat

Contrat à durée déterminée de 12 mois avec possibilité de renouvellement

Salaire

Compétitif et correspondant à la grille salariale d’Alert en Rwanda

INTERNATIONAL ALERT

International Alert (Alert) est une organisation internationale de droit britannique qui travaille dans la consolidation de la paix à travers des organisations locales de la société civile, par la recherche, le plaidoyer, le renforcement des capacités, le dialogue inclusif, la participation politique et citoyenne. Alert travaille parfois seule, mais souvent en collaboration avec d’autres intervenants nationaux et internationaux.

Dans ce projet, Alert travaillera avec 7 partenaires locaux, qui ont chacun une longue et forte expérience dans le commerce transfrontalière, dans 4 régions transfrontalières :

• Goma/Rubavu
• Bukavu/Rusizi
• Uvira/Gatumba
• Kamanyola/Bugarama
• Nemba – Kirundo

Le but du projet est de : contribuer à une société plus inclusive, à une coopération améliorée et à une paix durable dans la région des Grands Lacs d’Afrique. Le projet se concentre sur le renforcement du rôle que les commerçantes résidant dans ces communautés frontalières peuvent jouer à travers le commerce, pour faciliter une plus grande compréhension entre les communautés.

L’objectif spécifique du projet est de renforcer les capacités des femmes petites commerçantes transfrontalières dans les régions frontalières de la RDC, du Rwanda et du Burundi, pour qu’elles remettent collectivement en question les dynamiques liées au genre, qui contribuent aux conflits au sein de leurs communautés et plus largement dans la région, et de faire usage de leur influence afin de promouvoir une plus grande cohésion sociale et une plus grande coopération régionale.

Le projet, qui se concentrera sur quatre régions de transit transfrontalier, atteindra quatre résultats-clés :

1. D’ici la fin du projet, dans les zones frontalières visées, les dynamiques liées au genre entre petites commerçantes transfrontalières et leur époux sont plus inclusives et permettent aux femmes d’avoir une plus grande influence et de prendre des décisions dans leur foyer.
2. D’ici la fin du projet, dans les zones frontalières visées, les petites commerçantes transfrontalières disposent de ressources économiques plus importantes, et ont les compétences pour user de ces ressources pour plaidoyer pour une plus grande cohésion sociale et une plus grande coopération régionale.
3. D’ici la fin du projet, dans les zones frontalières visées, les acteurs économiques – incluant les commerçantes transfrontalières et les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) – interagissent davantage à travers le réseautage et plus de coopération, et travaillent ensemble afin de promouvoir une plus grande cohésion sociale, la coopération régionale et la paix dans la région.
4. D’ici la fin du projet, dans les zones frontalières visées, les petites commerçantes transfrontalières et les responsables des douanes et des frontières comprennent et ont accès à la législation et aux procédures en matière de commerce transfrontalier ; les commerçantes transfrontalières usent de ces ressources pour plaider pour une plus grande cohésion sociale, la coopération régionale et la paix.

Description générale du Poste

Le but du présent poste est d’accompagner la mise en œuvre des activités du projet Mupaka Shamba Letu par appui aux organisations partenaires et aux groupes des femmes petites commerçantes transfrontalières (FPCTs) dans le processus de consolidation de la paix, renforcement d’autonomisation économique et renforcement de participation civique. Le (la) chargé(e) de projet travaillera sous la supervision du Chargé de Projet Principal et en étroite collaboration avec chargé de Programme/ Program Manager

Le (la) chargé(e) de projet collabore avec l’équipe d’admin/finance d’Alert pour assurer un bon accompagnement des acteurs locaux impliqués dans le projet et le respect des règles et procédures d’Alert et du bailleur de fonds par les partenaires d’implémentation.

Description des Fonctions

1.    Assurer la mise en œuvre efficace des activités 

•  Planifier et accompagner la mise en œuvre des activités par les organisations partenaires du Sud Kivu et Burundi selon le plan de travail et la stratégie définie dans le projet et en collaboration avec le senior Project officer et assurer la cohérence des interventions des partenaires et contrats de service ;
• Fournir aux facilitateurs employés par les organisations partenaires du Rwanda une assistance technique et les accompagner dans la mise en œuvre des activités, visant un renforcement durable, un renforcement de leurs capacité et un meilleur impact du projet.

2.    Appuyer le Chargé de projet Principal dans la mise en pratique des systèmes et procédures appropriés pour la mise en œuvre du projet

• S’assurer que les partenaires du projet respectent et appliquent les procédures administratives, logistiques et financières d’Alert, du Sida ainsi qu’ils respectent les lois en vigueur au Rwanda en matière de droit du travail ;
• Coordonner et organiser les activités pour assurer une approche communautaire et participative vers les résultats attendus du projet ;
• Contribuer au développement de la stratégie et des activités pour l’inclusion de la « sensibilité aux conflits et au genre » dans toutes les activités ;
• Appuyer le Chargé de projet principal dans la préparation et organisation des ateliers de de travail au sein du projet et cela conjointement avec les partenaires ;
• Faire des analyses régulières du contexte sécuritaire et politico-social dans les zones transfrontalières et les partager avec le Chargé de projet principal.

3.    Rapportage, suivi et évaluation des partenaires basés au Rwanda et Burundi 

•  Participer dans les séances de réflexion et planification avec les partenaires aussi souvent que nécessaire et contribuer aux recommandations pour l’adaptation de stratégie de projet basé sur les résultats des séances ;
•  Identifier et communiquer au chargé principal du projet les besoins en renforcement de capacités des partenaires et organiser des séances de formation y répondant ;
•  Contribuer et s’assurer que les rapports narratifs et financiers des partenaires sont soumis à temps et soient conformes aux règles et procédures d’Alert et des bailleurs de fonds ;
• Collecter et donner un feedback constructif aux rapports d’activités des organisations partenaires et rédiger des rapports circonstanciels sur le contexte ou autres données recueillies sur le terrain, et les soumettre à la hiérarchie dans le délai ;
• Assister les organisations partenaires dans la rédaction de leurs rapports ;
• S’assurer que les données recueillies et transmises par les partenaires soient fiables ;
• Effectuer des descentes sur terrain autant souvent que possible pour s’assurer de la mise en œuvre effective des activités par les partenaires et selon les TdR précédemment validés par le Chargé Principal du projet ;
•  Recueillir mensuellement et partager avec le chargé Principal de Projet des histoires de succès et leçons apprises.

4.    Autres responsabilités – la coordination interne et externe

• Contribuer et assister aux réunions hebdomadaires du staff d’Alert au Rwanda pour le suivi de la mise en œuvre ;
•   Participer activement aux réunions d’équipe du projet et d’autres réunions nécessaires.

Essentielle

Désirable

Etre de nationalité Ruandaise.

Etre détenteur d’un diplôme universitaire de Licence en sciences sociales, en développement rural, Etudes en genre, ou un domaine similaire.

Essentielle

Désirable

Expérience d’au moins 3 ans dans la supervision des projets de relèvement communautaire, y compris le suivi et la planification budgétaire.

Expérience professionnelle substantielle dans la supervision de projets axés sur la cohésion sociale, le renforcement économique des femmes et communautaire.

Eexpérience avouée d’au moins 2 ans dans le domaine de la cohésion sociale à travers le renforcement économique des femmes, des femmes/genre aux processus communautaire et du business, poste de prise de décisions.

Avoir des capacités et expérience directe dans la facilitation des ateliers de formation divers et la rédaction des modules de formation.

Expérience dans la relance économique, les AVECs et les coopératives, le réseautage, recherches action participatives et le renforcement des femmes dans la prise des décisions.

Expérience/connaissance sur la méthodologie de mise en place des AVEC/VSLAs, les principes régissant la mise en place, gouvernance et gestion des coopératives ; les notions de base en entreprenariat et développement des business plans

Etre capable de cultiver et maintenir des relations professionnelles ouvertes et non discriminatoires avec les communautés, les administrations publiques et les représentants d’autres organisations opérationnelles dans le milieu d’exécution du projet.

Etre familier (ère) aux notions de sensibilité au conflit ainsi que de relations genre et leur applicabilité

Démontrer une forte intégrité personnelle et savoir faire respecter celle de l’organisation.

Avoir le sens de l’équité et de la justice, et un haut niveau de loyauté organisationnelle.

Une bonne connaissance de l’anglais écrit et parlé sera considérée comme un avantage ainsi que l’habilité à parler des langues locales.

Capacité démontrée de travailler de manière objective et apolitique.

Avoir une expérience directe dans l’exécution des projets utilisant une approche basée sur le genre.

Capable de développer de bonnes relations interpersonnelles, et de travailler dans un milieu pluridisciplinaire et dans la diversité culturelle.

Parfaite maîtrise du français exigée.

Bonne capacité dans la rédaction de différents documents.

Etre méthodique et perfectionniste, savoir organiser son travail notamment en respectant les priorités et les délais.

Etre sensible à l’approche genre et et une bonne compréhension de l’application pratique de ce concept.

Avoir un esprit pratique, savoir identifier les problèmes et proposer des alternatives de solutions positives pour tous les concernés, et dans un meilleur délai.

Savoir respecter des échéances, forte capacité d’organisation du travail et de gestion des priorités concurrentes urgentes.

Avoir une expérience dans le rapportage écrit d’activités liées au projet.

Maîtrise des logiciels suivants : WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, OUTLOOK et Internet.

Excellente maitrise d’autres produits Microsoft office. Une bonne connaissance IT.

Essentielles

Désirables

Capacité à travailler sous pression et avec autonomie tout en conservant l’éthique de l’organisation et maintenir la qualité du travail.

Engagement à l’approche et les valeurs d’Alert, en particulier concernant les besoins des populations affectés par les conflits.

Capacité de penser stratégiquement.

Capable et désireux de prendre des décisions proactives et de les adapter quand nécessaire.

Capacité à gérer avec tacts les conflits, forte capacité de communication diplomate et de facilitation.

Capacité de remplir ses devoirs de façon indépendante avec un minimum de soutien technique.

Job Title

Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialist

Division

Special Project Implementation Unit

Reporting to

Administratively reporting to RHFP Project Coordinator and functionally reporting to the Chief Risk officer

Duration

Two (2) year fixed term (renewable)

Job Purpose

The Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialist to be hired for the Special Project Implementation Unit will be responsible for developing, coordinating, and overseeing environmental and social policies and procedures, as well as reviewing and appraising proposed investments/project activities for compliance with the national environmental and social requirements as well as the World Bank’s environmental and social safeguards policies.

S/he will work with SPIU project teams and clients on the implementation of the Project. S/he will formulate recommendations and requirements for client action and will also monitor the environmental and social performance of operations in the SPIU funded portfolio.

Duties and responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities shall include but not limited to:

• Work with other departments within BRD to ensure that appropriate resources and capacity are deployed to effectively cover the safeguards policies of projects in preparation and implementation of the projects under the SPIU portfolio;
• Support the design and implementation of operations, ensuring that the financed projects and other activities are socially and environmentally sustainable, and comply with BRD and the World Bank’s social and environmental safeguards policies and good international industry practices (GIIP);
• Undertake screening and due diligence of all projects proposed for financing under the SPIU portfolio to determine scope and severity of risks and impacts as well as the level of environmental and social analysis, including mitigation measures needed;
• During all phases of the sub-project continuously identify significant potential social and environmental impacts and risks of a subproject or investment;
• Design a simple but robust safeguard monitoring system, including easily measurable indicators, at BRD and lead on the monitoring of the implementation of the relevant safeguards instruments during all phases of the subprojects or investments;
• Design and incorporate safeguards management/remediation plans and feasible and cost-effective measures to avoid, minimize, and mitigate potential adverse environmental and social impacts likely to be associated with any investments under the SPIU portfolio.
• Supervise and support projects technically to ensure full compliance with the implementation of mitigation measures by the proponents/recipients of the investments;
• Review and approve corrective action plans (CAR) for sub-projects found to be non-compliant with the environmental and social safeguards policies and mitigation measures;
• Identify and report on environmental and social safeguards implementation performance of sub-projects/investments, particularly those with high safeguards sensitivity;
• Develop safeguards capacity building programs and administer safeguard training to staff, and continuously provide technical assistance (TA) and capacity building to existing and potential customers;
• Ensure that the client understands the national environmental and social regulations, BRD and World Bank’s safeguards policies, guidelines, and project-specific safeguards requirements, and has the necessary commitment and capacity to manage social and environmental impacts and/or risks adequately;
• Identify and advise on areas of work beyond safeguards where safeguards and environmental sustainability may be catalyzers for new lending products;
• Contribute significantly to advocacy, dissemination, and knowledge building, with regard to the World Bank’s environmental and social safeguards policies, including the World Bank policy on information disclosure;
• Prepare periodic reports (quarterly and annually) on the status of environmental and social compliance of investment projects funded under the SPIU;
• Work with (provide support to) local authorities and projects developers in establishing appropriate sub-project level grievance redress mechanisms/systems for managing (collecting, registering, responding to, feedbacking, etc.) grievances, conflicts, and disputes;
• Work on any other assignment from either BRD’s Management or immediate supervisor regarding the E& S safeguards of the Bank.

EDUCATION, SPECIFIC SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Education

Degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Management, Environmental Sciences, Social Development, or related field.

A masters’ degree will be an added advantage.

Experience and skills     

Experience and skills shall include but not limited to:

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in S&E management.
• Familiarity with World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguards Policies will be an added advantage.
• Analytical and design skills,
• Ability to work independently, to develop and present sound technical information skills.

Competencies

Competencies shall include but not limited to:

• Results-oriented;
• Demonstrated team leadership and high organizational skills;
• Excellent communication and analytical skills;
• Ability to coordinate group activities, ensuring that roles within the team are clear;
• An in-depth understanding of the local, regional and international social and environmental contexts and challenges;
• Ability to advise BRD and the SPIU on areas of improvement in the S&E field.

Job Title

Civil Engineer

Division

Special project implementation

Reporting to

RHFP Project Coordinator

Duration

Two (2) year fixed term (renewable)

Job Purpose

The Civil Engineer to be hired by Rwanda Housing Finance Project will assist/advise on the Rwanda Housing Finance Project (RHFP) implementation, especially for the subsidy component of the RHFP that will involve hiring contractors to develop the infrastructure facilities in the affordable housing estates. The Engineer will work hand in hand with BRD and Rwanda Housing Authority/ Mininfra on the implementation arrangements of the RHFP, especially the subsidy component. The Civil engineer will also work with PIU Team and PFI’s on matters related to financing houses fulfilling the standards of RHFP and RHA/Mininfra.

S/he will offer technical support in the development of technical ToRs for the RHFP and follow up on the implementation of aspects related to civil engineering.

Duties and responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities shall include but not limited to:

• Provide technical support on the implementation of the RHFP and specifically the infrastructure subsidy component through working hand in hand with Rwanda Housing Authority/ Mininfra, Contractors and the respective supervise companies;
• Provide technical support for the valuation of works done related to infrastructure, by providing counter-valuation of works and offering technical recommendation that will serve as the basis of disbursement of infrastructural subsidy;
• Provide capacity building to RHFP Staff in verifying the fulfillment of RHFP construction requirements for houses and infrastructure;
• Provide technical support and advice in construction engineering projects to the RHFP Staff;
• Onsite assessment of performance for projects where clients of RHFP are to accesses houses to ensure compliance to affordable housing requirements;
• Assess the potential risks of specific projects collaborating with the RHFP, as well as undertaking technical risk management in specialist roles in order to recommend mitigations measures beforehand to avoid project failure and hence non-performance;
• Offer advisory services to the RHFP team in the compilation of ToRs for Component II of RHFP and monitoring the implementation of the civil engineering aspects of the project;
• Assess relevant requirements around issues such as building permits, environmental regulations, sanitary design, good manufacturing practices, and safety on all work assignments to avoid noncompliance that may have an adverse impact on projects completion for projects where the RHFP has a stake;
• Carry on any other assignment delegated by the line managers.

EDUCATION, SPECIFIC SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Education

A Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering.

A masters’ degree will be an added advantage.

Experience & Skills        

Experience and skills shall include but not limited to:

• Minimum of 4 years of work experience in housing projects; support to affordable housing projects will be an added advantage.
• Strong project monitoring and evaluation skills.
• Knowledge of relevant industry sector challenges.
• Business development, donors, and client relationship skills.
• Interpersonal skills and ability to communicate clearly across all lines of business.
• Relevant engineering computer skills.
• Familiarity with World Bank projects will be an added advantage.

Competencies

Competencies shall include but not limited to:

• Results-oriented;
• Demonstrated team leadership and high organizational skills;
• Excellent communication and analytical skills;
• Ability to coordinate group activities, ensuring that roles within the team are clear;
• An in-depth understanding of the local, regional and international housing markets;
• Ability to advise the BRD and the RHFP PIU on areas of improvement in the civil engineering field.

1.      Background Information

Job Title:  Manager, Human Capital

Job Level:  Management, J5

Department of Human Capital and Corporate services

Reports to: Head, Human Capital, and Corporate services

Contract tenure: open-ended

Direct Reports:

a)      Officer, Payroll and Reward

b)      Officer, Performance Management

c)      Officer, Talent Management

2.      Purpose of the Job:

The purpose of this job is to shape the performance and development systems for all employees, designing and supporting the company talent frameworks including performance management, succession planning, and workforce/human resource planning whilst guiding and managing Human Resources services for the Company

3.      Main Responsibilities of the Job:

1. Provide inputs into the development of the BRD human management capital strategy, ensuring that the business leverages all information and data in developing a responsive human capital strategy
2. Development of the human capital management budget, ensuring that the budget is reflective of the human capital budget requirements
3. Recommend improvements to the existing policies, procedures, and processes on human capital management, to ensure the guidelines are reflective of the BRD day to day needs
4. Coordinate the performance management process across the business, capturing user feedback, timeliness, and quality in the process
5. Coordinate the training needs analysis process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in the submission of the training needs report
6. Develop training programs to address the training needs analysis captured, ensuring the training budget is developed and approved in a timely manner
7. Coordinate the implementation of the training programs, ensuring calendars are submitted to users in a timely manner, suppliers identified and contracted, and training reports submitted in a timely manner
8. Asses the human capital processes, providing recommendations on the opportunity for automation
9. To contribute to the development of an organization-wide strategy for recruiting and onboarding a high-quality and diverse workforce through effective processes for staff screening and selection.
10. user departments to determine staffing requirements for each financial year, ensuring such appropriate approvals and budget allocation
11. Create staffing plans to guide the Bank in filling various positions and address staffing concerns as and when the need arises
12. Develop and implement recruitment plans, providing cost efficiency in the resourcing process, and ensuring responsiveness to the business talent need
13. Determine staff selection criteria in collaboration with respective hiring managers as a yardstick for shortlisting job applications;
14. Coordinate onboarding of new hires including to ensure quick familiarization with the work environment and fast settlement;
15. Generate recruitment reviews and reports on recruitment processes and systems and present to the HR Management Team and Senior Managers for information purposes and initiate improvements if need be;
16. Coordinate the maintenance of human resource records, both online and physical, for ease of reference when the need arises.
17. Coordinate the processing of payroll and all other benefits by reviewing salary adjustment reports, verifying payroll and deductions to ensure accuracy of staff pay;
18. Ensure that staff provident fund is transparently and effectively managed to entail the choice of viable and profitable investments
19. Ensure all social welfare programs are well managed
20. Establish succession planning strategies for identifying, developing, and promoting high potential and high performing staff.
21. Enhance occupational health, safety, and well-being by creating awareness, training, and coordinating payment of workers’ compensation claims
22. Develop annual leave plans for the staff of the unit and ensure compliance

4.      Performance indicators

a)      Fast turnaround of recruitment processes

b)      Regular trainings as per training needs analyses

c)      Training hours per staff member (Any standard known for this)

d)      Approved staffing plans

e)      Safe custody of human resource records

f)       Completed performance

g)      Up to date human resource policies

h)      Accurate payroll

i)        Occupational health and safety

5.      Working relationships

a)      Head, human capital and corporate services

b)      Heads of departments

c)      Staff within the human capital and corporate support department

d)      External recruitment agencies

e)      Human resource regulatory authorities

6.      Professional, academic qualifications and experience

a)      Bachelor’s Degree in HR, administration, or related field

b)      Relevant progressive experience of a minimum of five (5) years in Human Capital Development and Management

c)      Professional qualification in Human resource management

7.      Core competencies

a)      In-depth understanding of Human Resource policies and procedures

b)      Understanding of Organization design concepts

c)      Knowledge of performance management frameworks

d)      Understanding of Rwanda’s labor law

e)      Experience with execution of General HR Operations

f)       Employee relations

g)      Learning and development tools

h)      Remuneration and Job Evaluation Tools

i)        Knowledge of Recruitment and Talent Mapping

j)        Records Management

k)      Contract Management

The UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021 embraces the complexity of development and commits the organization to helping countries find faster, more durable solutions to achieve Agenda 2030. Important development trends like urbanization, climate change, and inequality pose significant challenges on our path to achieve the 2030 agenda of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

UNDP has begun incubating a number of strategic initiatives aimed at ensuring UNDP is ‘fit for purpose’ to deliver a new generation of solutions in line with the challenges the world faces.  One such key strategic initiatives is the Country Accelerator Lab Network.  The initiative is a recognition that increasingly interrelated development challenges require going beyond business as usual and single point, linear and silver bullet responses in development.  Instead, they call for an interdisciplinary approaches and non-linear solutions that crowd in the collective efforts of variety of partners and tap into local insights and the knowledge of people closest to the problem and the solutions. The initiative is also a recognition and an investment in the emerging momentum among a growing number of UNDP Country Offices around joining together disruptive, cutting edge methodologies with contextual, country-based insights and expertise to accelerate impact and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

US:

We are building the largest and fastest learning global network of Accelerator Labs (initially setting up 60 labs in 60 countries) embedded within UNDP’s global architecture and country platforms. The new offering builds on the latest thinking from the fields of complexity science, lead user innovation, and collective intelligence to accelerate development impact.

Our network will surface and reinforce locally sourced solutions at scale while mobilizing a wide and dynamic partnership of actors contributing knowledge, resources, and experience.  The idea is to transform our collective approach by introducing new protocols, backed by evidence and practice, which accelerate the testing and dissemination of solutions within and across countries. This will enable the global community to collectively learn from local knowledge and ingenuity at a speed and at a scale that our societies and planet require. This will be achieved by:

• 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.

The Accelerator Lab will undertake i) external facing interventions addressing priority development challenges, and ii) internally facing experiments to embed new ways of doing development within the existing UNDP portfolio.

You:

You are capable and excited about starting, design and managing activities, direct engagement with local communities, and collaboration across global networks.  You are driven by learning new things, figuring out how they work, and translating them across sectors.

You have a natural inclination to interdisciplinarity, cross-cultural mindset and cross sectoral experience with the cosmopolitan attraction for diversity.  You are driven by a strong sense of purpose and commitment to make change happen and a keen eye to identify emerging opportunities and ‘at the edge’ trends.  You are open to discovery and exploration, capable of articulating insights and ideas through visual thinking, open to serendipity and discovery yet are pragmatic and constructive working with public sector authorities. You are comfortable with ambiquity, capable of zooming out for context and zooming in for content and execution- sharp in pursuit of objectives, fast at adapting and changing course when needed.  You have superb compentencies in program and portfolio management, are at ease with decision-making processes and dynamics of different models of governance.

You are curious, quirky, and fun, natural strategic thinkers and talented designers.  You understand systems, the good, the bad and the ugly, and are capable of working within them to make change, leverage technology to extend, enhance and multiply exploration, discovery, and execution.  You are digitally savy, you hack tools, and you are keen to be a part of a large global organization exhibiting United Nations values.

Horizon scanning and market intelligence for the Rwanda Accelerator Lab

• Identify, visualize and communicate emerging development trends,data, technologies, and issues with a particular focus on the edges and “below the radar screen” events, opportunities and players, and systemically map their impacts on  economy, environment, society, and livelihoods of the poorest.
• Together with the Accelerator lab team, map and assess local solutions and define pathways for their scale-up in policies or markets
• Identify 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
• Proactively explore and identify the new methods/approaches and frontier knowledge to tackle development challenges, collaborate with the Experimentation lead to turn these into learning options for addressing specific policy issues in the country
• Contribute to the formulation of the Accelerator Lab service lines to the UNDP Country Programme based on findings from horizon scanning, systems’ mapping, and local knowledge

Partnership and resource mobilization

• Map 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
• Explore the diversification of funding and investment sources through proactively mapping potential partners and building value proposition for their investment in the Lab and its portfolio of experiments
• Collaborate with programme / project managers and CO senior management to anticipate the emerging needs, shape the demand from the clients and support the CO to develop a pipeline of emerging projects responding to those
• Contribute insights and provide input to the programme managers and CO senior management to coordinate targeted partnership and communicationactivities for relevant projects/initiatives.

Organizational learning and interface with the core business of UNDP

• Support identification of future skills required for the Accelerator Lab, the Country Programme, and Lab’s clients
• Design and deliver horizon scanning trainings for partners and UNDP, help embed horizon scanning and attention to the ‘edge’ activities in the CO and with the partners
• Organize and implement knowledge sharing and network events;
• Lead other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab.

Working out loud

• Share findings from the exploration on future trends, new methodologies/approaches, potential partnership, funding opportunities, and others within UNDP and with partners;
• 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.

Coordination

• Coordinating the AC team to have an effective annual work plan
• Oversee the daily management and effective delivery of the AC team
• Ensure the AC team is harmonized
• Ensure that Senior Management is updated on AC team developments, and opportunities
• Enables the AC team to be embedded strategically within the programme unit work plans effectively
• Chairs the office Innovation and Ideas Team

Core

Innovation: Ability to make new and useful ideas work

Level 4: Adept with complex concepts and challenges convention purposefully

Leadership: Ability to persuade others to follow

Level 4: Generates commitment, excitement and excellence in others

People Management: Ability to improve performance and satisfaction

Level 4: Models independent thinking and action

Communication:  Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform

Level 4: Synthesizes information to communicate independent analysis

Delivery: Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement

Level 4: Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or services

Education:

Master’s degree in Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or related field and a 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 Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, 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:

• Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation;
• Demonstrated capacity in horizon scanning;

Experience in the following areas is desirable but not necessary:

• Professional experience in partnership building and engagement (public and private sector) and resource mobilization;
• Proven professional knowledge and experience in at least one of the following: Future thinking and Foresight, research, and Systems Mapping;
• Key awareness of key global and regional trends;
• Demonstrated access to networks of edge innovators.

Language Requirements:

• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Other:

The Accelerator Labs will be comprised of a core team with niche capabilities around that focus on exploration, experimentation and ethnography.  As such the Accelerator Lab team will report directly to the UNDP Resident Representative/Deputy Resident Representative.  Within the first 6-8 months of the Lab fully functioning, the core team will be expected to double up on the functional roles and in consultation with the UNDP Country Office, manage operations and scale innovations into the UNDP Country Office, story-telling and communications, and interface with the broader Accelerator Lab network.  Accelerator lab capabilities will cover:

• Experimentation (instituting rapid learning about emerging challenges through design and running of a portfolio of experiments that is coherent with the type of challenges UNDP COs are mandated to address), 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 the 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.