Regional Strategic Innovation Specialist

hace 3 semanas


Panama United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) A tiempo completo

**Job Identification**
- 17658

**Locations**
- Panama City, Panama**Posting Date**
- 04/17/2024, 04:44 PM
- 05/01/2024, 10:59 PM

**Job Schedule**
- Full time

**Agency**
- UNDP

**Grade**
- IPSA-10

**Vacancy Type**
- International Personnel Service Agreement

**Practice Area**
- Management

**Bureau**
- Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean

**Contract Duration**
- 1 Year

**Education & Work Experience**
- Master's Degree - 5 year(s) experience OR Bachelor's Degree - 7 year(s) experience

**Required Languages**
- Fluency in Spanish and English

**Desired Languages**
- Knowledge of Portuguese and/or French is an advantage.

**Vacancy Timeline**
- 2 Weeks

**Mobility required/no mobility**
- no mobility required

**Background**

**Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and **inspiring stories.**

**Office/Unit/Project Description**

Countries worldwide are facing increasingly complex and multifaceted development challenges, ranging from the climate emergency, the lack of trust in institutions and growing levels of inequality. UNDP’s new Strategic Plan calls for adopting system & portfolio approaches to nurture capabilities of the development sector to support tackling these complex issues & transform the very systems that underpin development.

In that context, the Strategic Innovation Unit (SIU) within the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has worked with various UNDP teams, governments, and other partners on exploring portfolio approaches that can help facilitate system transformation. This work progresses along the two parallel tracks - one that focuses on building capabilities for developing a different value proposition to tackle complex development challenges and another that addresses the institutional redesign necessary to enable a shift from projects to portfolios. This critically implies a rewiring of core systems - from M&E and finance to new capabilities & ways of working.

The SIU team does this through the work of its distributed regional and global team and a network of colleagues embedded within country offices and other corporate units. The global SIU team is responsible, among others, for several initiatives including a seminal Innovation Facility and a more recent investment of the Gates Foundation in the M&E Sandbox that it set up in 2022.

**Scope of Work**

The Regional Strategic Innovation Specialist will provide support to LAC country offices on the design and implementation of the portfolio approach leading the provision of training workshops and capacity-building tools in areas related to strategic innovation and inclusive digital transformation portfolios.

Key functions include:

- Development of a strategy for LAC’s uptake of a portfolio approach
- Perform a portfolio approach implementation in coordination with the Regional Bureau and Country Offices from LAC
- Evaluate the status of portfolio implementation and successful cases from LAC
- Provision of country office support of portfolio design and implementation
- Capacity building and knowledge development for Country Offices and RBLAC’s Regional HUB

**1) Provision of Country Support**
- Support offices in the Latin America and Caribbean region in identifying new entry points and value propositions in line with needs in the country and UNDP’s mandate.
- Provide support to offices in the roll-out of the portfolio policy, and design of portfolios of interventions, including through designing the process, supporting consultations with stakeholders and facilitating ideation of interventions.
- Lead on continued sensemaking of the regional innovation and digital portfolio vis a vis emerging trends to ensure coherence in institutional innovation and transformational capabilities to government counterparts.
- In collaboration with country offices, advise and develop context-specific monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks, and support the operationalization of portfolios.
- Harnesses bottom-up feedback and implications of the strategy to ensure a continued fit between the direction and demand and needs from the field.
- Supports strategic outreach and engagement with donors and Governments to integrate innovation into their work.
- Organize training and capacity-building workshops for UNDP offices and partners on topics related to system innovation, portfolio design and management, and other related topics.

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