Innovation and Knowledge Management Manager, P4, Abuja, Nigeria, TA, (364 Days) #131001
Job no: 576956
Position sort: Temporary Appointment
Location: Nigeria
Division/Equivalent: Dakar (WCAR), Senegal
School/Unit: Nigeria
Department/Office: Abuja, Nigeria
Categories: Knowledge Management
UNICEF works in over 190 nations and territories to save lots of kids’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by adolescence.
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In Nigeria, UNICEF works in a posh humanitarian and growth setting to meet and defend kids’s rights in partnership with the federal government, civil society, kids, and households. UNICEF Nigeria is without doubt one of the largest UNICEF Country Offices globally – click on the hyperlink to study extra about UNICEF in Nigeria: https://www.unicef.org/nigeria/
Background:
Innovation is a change technique for accelerating and enhancing the standard of programmatic ends in the UNICEF Nigeria nation programme and for outcome-level change for youngsters in Nigeria by authorities and associate adoption of latest and improved revolutionary options and methods of working.
Under the direct supervision of the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Reporting, the Innovation Manager might be accountable for offering technical management and help to innovation planning/design, implementation, monitoring and documentation throughout programme sectoral areas and with companions, supporting the achievement of UNICEF’s priorities. They will work carefully with the Deputy Representative, programme sections, eight discipline places of work, the PMR community, and the ICT Manager on strategic priorities associated to innovation and digital transformation, in addition to authorities, UN, NGO and personal sector companions.
How are you able to make a distinction:
This function goals to handle, lead, and help demand for revolutionary processes and collaborate with the ICT Manager to co-drive the Technology for Development (T4D) programmatic help. UNICEF programmes more and more leverage digital means for efficient programme supply, methods strengthening and monitoring. S/He will work carefully with the ICT Manager to supply
(1) Strategic steerage to programme groups within the identification, evaluation and integration of revolutionary options, together with ICT and digital innovation, into UNICEF programming,
(2) Strengthen inside capability to guide and help innovation and T4D associated initiatives,
(3) Identify and have interaction with key companions, constructing shut enterprise relationships,
(4) Apply reusable and replicable technical buildings blocks, maximizing the potential for the scale-up and sustainability of know-how and digital innovation for UNICEF programming.
Key capabilities, accountabilities and associated duties/duties:
1. Effective promotion of innovation throughout the UNICEF Nigeria Country workplace by the Innovation Governance Framework and Portfolio administration:
- Review and implement office-wide innovation technique, primarily based on UNICEF’s international and regional innovation methods and the workplans
- Coordinate country-specific growth and testing of innovation merchandise and processes that strengthen and enhance UNICEF’s programming and outcomes for youngsters and younger folks.
- Support the innovation wants of eight zonal places of work in Nigeria by commonly undertake discipline visits to watch and assess programme implementation and determine on required corrective motion, together with in emergencies.
- Lead deployment of a portfolio method to options prioritized for UNICEF programming
- Provide capability constructing and coaching to UNICEF and associate employees and end-users in utilizing revolutionary merchandise and processes.
2. Policy and strategic growth of technology-enabled Programming:
- Provide management to the implementation, monitoring and reporting of the digital growth and know-how innovation technique for the nation workplace, together with evaluation of gaps, alternatives and scale-up revolutionary methods in help of CO priorities.
- Operationalize the event and know-how innovation into the programme planning lifecycle by the Nigeria CO innovation technique.
- Coordinate with the ICT Manager/ Digital Transformation Lead on the event and high quality assurance throughout planning and deployment of T4D initiatives; take part in establishing and sustaining requirements, documentation and help mechanisms for T4D.
- Finalize complete mapping of deliberate, ongoing and accomplished innovation/T4D initiatives in Nigeria and add in UNICEF’s innovation portfolio database INVENT.
3.Innovation Cross-Sectoral Technical and Programmatic help :
NCO has a sturdy portfolio of Innovation initiatives at present being carried out in numerous operational phases and the Innovation Manager will help these initiatives. Current examples embody:
- Accelerating open defecation-free (ODF) standing throughout Nigeria
- Develop and take a look at city sanitation fashions for insecure areas,
- Test innovation for efficiency primarily based ODF achievement and reward system for LGAs, communities, and states, and
- Revise methods and instruments for market-based sanitation and sanitation finance, and
- Integrate growth of feminine rest room enterprise house owners in market-based sanitation
- Reducing stunting in kids specializing in the primary 1000 days of life
- Reducing out-of-school kids (OOSC) together with creating a mannequin for the southern states and enhancing monitoring progress of out of faculty kids
- Reducing the variety of zero-dose kids who’ve by no means acquired any immunization and scale and use of operational improvements e.g. HOPE
- Supporting delivery registration/ authorized identification for each little one
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Develop a framework to speed up and combine delivery registration protection with Primary Health Care companies, significantly in rural and fragile settings, to enhance accessibility and effectiveness,
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- Strengthen the National Population Commission (NPC) Innovation Hub,
- Capacity constructing and coaching programmes for well being employees and registrars,
- Interoperability of eCRVS with authorized identification and digital well being knowledge methods, and
- Enhance digital infrastructure and equip NPC places of work for digital operation.
Complementary to those innovation priorities are using revolutionary financing approaches throughout the nation workplace like the general public finance administration for youngsters (PF4C), exploring a multi-sector little one grant mechanism (common kids advantages), and digital money transfers to advance digital and monetary inclusion with a gender lens.
4. Partnerships and technical help on Children and Adolescents, Youth Engagement and Advocacy :
- Co-chair GenU 9JA Pillar 1 Task Force for Connectivity and Digital Learning,
- Convene common conferences with companions, agreeing work plans, and aligning efforts for influence,
- Strengthen present relationships and help the creation of latest partnerships with public, personal, and youth companions, and
- Support sections, personal sector partnerships, and useful resource mobilization groups in associate engagements to advance innovation initiatives and outcomes for youngsters.
5. Collaborate with different pillars of the PMR community in Nigeria CO:
- Provide exemplary administration and management, motivating and creating employees underneath the pillars of the PMR community, programme sections and discipline places of work to carry out at their finest and dwell the core values
- Manage efficiency of the PMR community by commonly discussing efficiency, giving well timed, constructive suggestions, establish studying targets, amongst others
- Ensure a supportive work atmosphere for the event of the staff together with work life stability
- Develop and keep a office atmosphere in keeping with the core values of UNICEF.
To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have…
Minimum necessities:
- An superior college diploma in International Development, Business Administration, Information Technology, Innovation Management, or one other associated discipline is required
- A minimal of 8 (eight) years of related skilled expertise in managing programmes or tasks associated to innovation, info know-how for growth, communication, training with sturdy know-how parts throughout a big group. Experience in start-up firms/organizations is an asset.
- Experience figuring out, designing, and implementing options for large-scale tasks with technical parts – together with supervising exterior distributors and software program builders; duty for enterprise evaluation, budgets, contracts, challenge administration, and procurement, and so on.
- Experience in Open Source, cellular and rising know-how utilized to UNICEF programme areas is extraordinarily fascinating.
- Experience with RapidPro, OpenSRP, DHIS2, ODK, and different international public good applied sciences, and deploying, sustaining and scaling these applied sciences is extremely fascinating.
- Good data of present traits in youth participation and new media
- Experience in managing inside and exterior partnerships, together with worldwide organizations.
- Demonstrated experiences on design ideas, human-centered design approaches, enterprise modelling from concepts to market and buyer companies orientations are extremely fascinating.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language is an asset
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the pieces we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values
The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (3)
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3)
(3) Drive to realize outcomes for influence (3)
(4) Innovates and embraces change (3)
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (3)
(6) Thinks and acts strategically (3)
(7) Works collaboratively with others (3)
(8) Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (3)
Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.
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We provide a variety of measures to incorporate a extra various workforce, resembling paid parental go away, time without work for breastfeeding functions, and cheap lodging for individuals with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.
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Remarks
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Advertised: Nov 05 2024 W. Central Africa Standard Time
Application shut: Nov 28 2024 W. Central Africa Standard Time
