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UNDP is the leading United Nations organization fighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality, and climate change. Working with a broad network of experts and partners in 170 countries and territories, UNDP helps nations to build integrated, lasting solutions for people and the planet. In Kazakhstan, the office’s focus is on sustaining the country’s growth trajectory by diversifying the economy, modernizing institutions, reducing inequalities, and sustainably managing natural resources.
UNDP has begun incubating a number of strategic initiatives aimed at ensuring UNDP is ‘fit for purpose’ to deliver a new generation of solutions in line with the challenges the world faces. One such key strategic initiative is the UNDP Accelerator Lab Network which operates as part of UNDP’s sustainable development offering.
The UNDP Accelerator Labs is the world’s largest and fastest learning network on wicked sustainable development challenges. Co-built as a joint venture with the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany and the Qatar Fund for Development, the Network comprises 91 Lab teams covering 115 countries and taps into local innovations to create actionable insights and reimagine sustainable development for the 21st century. Duties and Responsibilities
Experiment portfolio design
Works with UNDP and partners in mapping the context and nature of development challenges, with a particular focus on understanding systemic issues beyond traditional silos and classifications and identifying drivers of change, and levers for intervention Mapping systems and assets, identifying levers and logic for intervention, building hypotheses of change that are a fit to the system level challenges identified Identify logic against which to asses fit and coherence of the individual portfolios with the frontier challenges on which they are meant to generate learning Together with UNDP and development partners, coordinate portfolios of experiments to target multiple domains of complex problems.Management of tests and experiments for sustainable development challenges
Collaborate with UNDP colleagues and stakeholders on the design of experiments across to validate the hypotheses and test the effectiveness of identified prototypes, including (but not limit to) defining variables, formulating hypotheses, and coordinating experimental protocols Develop a framework to capture the learning from the experiments in such a way that it favours critical reflection and rapid adaptation over static reporting Provide technical guidance for experiment design, roll-out and validation based on the experiment conditions, resources available, and requirements Proactively manage risks within experiments including those related to ethics and privacy Examine the results from the testing of prototypes and translate them into proposals informing programmatic decisions on next steps and implications for improvement, spin offs and scaling-up, where warrented.Working out Loud
Proactively use blog and social media to share findings from the experiments and portfolio implementation Help UNDP and partners disseminate insights from Accelerator lab experiments via social media platforms as a way to regularly reflect and engage with external audiences. Liaise with UNDP’s global Accelerator Lab network and share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience Jointly with the CO, support lab partners to develop an emerging pipeline of new initiatives, support other activities related to the design and operation of the Lab Design and deliver engaging and meaningful methods for reflection on learning from experiments 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. Lead other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator LabOrganizational learning and interface with the core business of UNDP
Help embed a portfolio logic in clients’ work including the existing UNDP Country Programme (as determined and agreed with the senior management) Working with clients to encourage reflection and capturing of insights from individual experiments, as they related to the overall portfolio logic Work together with your Accelerator Lab colleagues and experts to codify and advance the Accelerator Lab practice and portfolio design in particular. Provide technical consultation and training for national partners and the CO through various phases including asset mapping, developing a strategic portfolio logic, experiment design, prototype testing, and evaluation;This vacancy is archived.