Job Vacancy For Head of Exploration

• 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

• 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
• Anticipate the emerging needs, shape the demand from the clients and support the CO to develop a pipeline of emerging projects responding to those
• Coordinate the partnerships and communicate the activities and progresses of relevant projects with partners.

• 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

• 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.

• Innovation - Ability to make new and useful ideas work: Adept with complex concepts and challenges convention purposefully. Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise.
• Leadership - Ability to persuade others to follow: Generates commitment, excitement and excellence in others.
• People Management - Ability to improve performance and satisfaction: Models independent thinking and action.
• Communication - Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform: Synthesizes information to communicate independent analysis.
• Delivery - Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement: Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or service.

• Master's degree in Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or related field and 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

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