Open Source Specialist (Home based)

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the event arm of the United Nations. Present in 170 nations with over 17,000 individuals, UNDP works on the world’s greatest issues: excessive poverty, local weather change, good governance, renewable vitality, disaster prevention, and girls’s empowerment, amongst others. 

UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 highlights the organisation’s dedication to scale and speed up progress in the direction of inexperienced, inclusive transitions that empower each final individual by higher alternative and resilience. It additionally clearly defines the position of digitalisation as a vital enabler for improvement outcomes. As additional defined within the UNDP Digital Strategy 2022-2025 (publication forthcoming), UNDP goals to contemplate the altering improvement context by digitalisation in all its interventions and to systematically harness the potential of digital know-how for improvement. 

The Chief Digital Office at UNDP is main this effort with the objective of embedding digital know-how within the improvement tasks that we implement, supporting authorities companions to construct inclusive digital ecosystems, and reworking the group internally to allow these adjustments. This contains using open-source software program, digital public items (DPGs), and selling a digital public infrastructure (DPI) method in our improvement work to foster using reusable, standards-based and interoperable digital methods to speed up our path in the direction of reaching the SDGs by 2030. UNDP can be a co-leading member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) and helps inner working teams within the UN system to internal supply, work extra overtly and reuse.

UNDP is on the lookout for an Open-Source Specialist to help the institution of two Open-Source Programme Offices (OSPO), in a shared mission with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), in two respective creating nations. The profitable candidate would additionally lead a small mission workforce to go to and help to 5 different nations and host establishments to evaluate the readiness for an OSPO. OSPOs are devoted divisions inside a company that manages its open supply initiatives. Its main position is to control and oversee open supply contributions, consumption, and compliance. By serving as a bridge between open supply communities and the group, these entities aide organizations to learn from open supply whereas additionally giving again to the digital group.

Generously sponsored by the European Commission, over a interval of three years, this transformative mission will develop and employees two OSPOs to enhance the capability of presidency and a number establishment to harness the advantages of open-source know-how for delivering efficient digital companies. Additionally, for minimal 2 and as much as 5 affiliate nations and host establishments, the profitable candidate will journey for 1-2 weeks to coach authorities officers in key ideas inside open supply and OSPOs as an organizational entity, assess the nationwide readiness for an OSPO, in addition to establish native champions for open supply, and lead useful resource mobilization efforts for creating new OSPOs. The coaching and evaluation within the 5 affiliate nations can be performed with a guide and/or different workforce member from the Chief Digital Office and is generously supported by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
 

• Oversee and information the OSPOs in all open-source associated actions and deliverables, providing technical, capability constructing, and group administration recommendation and help.
• Enhance consciousness of UNDPs coverage and advocacy on open supply and capability constructing by OSPOs each internally and externally, significantly among the many two host nations of the OSPO, in open-source communities, amongst UNDPs companions and different related fora.
• Lead and help colleagues and consultants working within the two OSPO host counties, and 5 affiliate nations and potential host organisations.
• Harness a listing of consultants and implementors for UNDPs nation workplaces to achieve capability in selling and implementing open supply and DPGs.
• Work collaboratively with digital innovation and authorities digitization groups to align nation digital plans with related open-source tasks and DPGs.
• Contribute to information administration and data sharing within the 5 affialted nation workplaces.
• The incumbent performs different duties inside their practical profile as deemed obligatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization. 

Institutional Arrangement

The candidate can be a part of the UNDP Chief Digital Office and report back to the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Manager within the Chief Digital Office (UNDP), with joint mission implementation relationship and oversight with the Programme Manager of the mission (ITU). The position is distant/home based mostly however requires flexibility to journey to no less than two low- and middle-income nations (LMICs) the place the OSPO can be located to make sure on-ground alignment and efficient collaboration, in addition to to some journey to the 5 affiliate nations and respective host establishments.
 

Expected period: 6 Months

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