Innovation & Business Intelligence Project Manager

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**WHO WE ARE**:
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a highly prestigious, reputable & world’s largest humanitarian organization, operating in more than 120 countries and territories, bringing life-saving assistance in emergencies, building pathways to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change and supporting sustainable and resilient livelihoods for a world with zero hunger.

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.

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**WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?**:

- WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment
- WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities
- A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
- We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section)

**JOB PURPOSE AND BACKGROUND**:
WFP is leveraging unprecedented advances in digital innovation - such as mobile technology, artificial intelligence, and blockchain - and new business models to transform the way it serves vulnerable communities across the world. An Innovation & Business Intelligence Project Manager is required to oversee this development work with other technical staff, provide input to development of training material, and in collaboration with HQ and the RB staff, plan and execute the release to country offices of completed innovative and information products to strengthen their capacity for self-service analysis. This engagement when completed will result in:
1. Country Offices in the Latin American and the Caribbean region are well trained, and their national teams better equipped with innovation & data management / visualization tools.

2. Enhanced Business Intelligence in Latin American and the Caribbean region to support decisions making at country level.

3. Enhanced visibility on innovation & digital transformation for digital and data solutions linked to capacity strengthening

4. Enhanced Data Quality and Consistency: promoting standardization and accuracy.

5. Enhanced data analysis to provide early warning on fraud, performance and operational risks.

6. Operational time savings and lower IT support costs by the implementation of innovative solutions The Innovation & Business Intelligence Project Manager, based in Panama City, would be expected to work directly with Regional Bureau and Country Office teams, managing the implementation of innovative and business intelligence related projects.

**ACCOUNTABILITIES / RESPONSABILITIES**:
The incumbent, reporting to the Regional TEC officer, is expected to:
1. Coordinate Scale-up Enablement portfolio of innovation & business intelligence new ventures to advance at scale and results towards Zero Hunger:

- Lead Country Offices’ innovation teams, providing hands-on guidance and development support, as needed, on key decisions regarding product features, business model, and technology elements that will allow them to reach impact at scale.
- Ensure project milestones, financial and legal needs, as it concerns their workplan and budget are adhered to achieve success.
- Coach project teams to grow their projects at scale using methodologies such as human centered design, lean start-up, project management and business modelling.
- Define key performance indicators and milestones for the innovation projects and assure their implementation, impact measurement, and reporting.
- Guide piloting with and/or integration within WFP operations or within other organizations (as applicable), while liaising with country offices and internal units such as procurement and legal, as required.
- Lead discussions with WFP colleagues in other divisions or in WFP operations to align on project scope and objectives; and
- Provide guidance to more junior colleagues on topics relating to planning and implementation of scaling projects.

2. Operationalize and create tools for the implementation and continuous growth of the innovation & business intelligence related activ