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The UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021 embraces the complexity of development and commits the organization to help countries to find faster, more durable solutions to achieve Agenda 2030. Important development trends like urbanization, climate change, and rising inequalities pose significant challenges to achieve the 2030 agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNDP has begun incubating several 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 Country Accelerator Lab Network. The initiative is a recognition that increasingly interrelated development challenges require going beyond “business as usual” and single point, linear and silver bullet responses in development. Instead, they call for interdisciplinary approaches and non-linear solutions that crowd in the collective efforts of a variety of partners and tap into local insights and the knowledge of people closest to the problem and the solutions.
The initiative is also a recognition and investment in the emerging momentum among a growing number of UNDP Country Offices to adopt disruptive, cutting edge methodologies with contextual, country-based insights and expertise to accelerate impact and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
As an upper-middle-income country, Thailand has advanced far beyond having many of the more basic development challenges affecting other nations. However, several challenges remain. Even in areas where Thailand has advanced and even become a model for other countries, improvements are possible. Those challenges are no longer best solved by conventional approaches and innovation is better suited.
Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic consequences highlight the irrelevance of traditional ways of formulating public policies and delivering public services that are not sufficiently agile, efficient and effective to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
In Thailand, for many years UNDP has been investing in exploring innovation by providing seed-funding to initiatives with the belief that innovation happens through practical explorations of new ways to address old development problems.
To accelerate innovation in public policy and services, UNDP and the Royal Thai Government through the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) see an opportunity to accelerate innovation for policies and public services in Thailand and have entered in an agreement to establish a policy innovation platform “Thailand Policy Lab” or “TPLab” to connect and build capacities of various stakeholders in Thailand including government; academic; private sector; and citizen, to accelerate the impact of innovation in public policy and services in Thailand, and exchange knowledge and experience with other countries in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
The Thailand Policy Lab (TPLab) will provide 3 core capacities to partners in Thailand as follow:
Exploration
Portfolio Options & Experiment
Learning
To support implementation of various initiatives of the TPLab, UNDP is looking for a Project Management Associate – Thailand Policy Lab. The Project Management Associate is responsible to provide administration services to the TPLab. He/She will work closely with government agencies, civil society organizations, academia, NGOs and citizen and will report directly to Head of TPLab. He/she will work closely with the team of UNDP programme and operation teams in Thailand and NESDC.
Under the direct supervision of Head of Thailand Policy Lab, the Project Management Associate will be in charge of day-to-day operations of TPLab, ensuring high quality, efficient and effective project delivery. He/she shall liaise with TPLab team, NESDC, UNDP and stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation of the project activities.
The Project Management Associate will support and facilitate the coordination of all technical and logistic arrangements in the following areas:
Coordination Support:
Planning:
Implementation:
Reporting and Audit:
Knowledge Building and Sharing:
Education:
Experience:
Language Requirement:
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Contract Duration: 1 year with possibility of extension
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