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The following documents shall be required from the applicants:
Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.
A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.
Travel:
The assignment might require travel, but this will be determined on the needs basis and the travel arrangements will be processed in accordance with the corporate travel policy.
Office/Unit/Project Description:
Countries around the world are facing increasingly complex and multifaceted development challenges, ranging from climate change and circular economy transitions to the coronavirus pandemic and the future of work. To help UNDP evolve and improve the relevance of its offers and support to governments and communities, UNDP’s Innovation Facility (IF) is investing in efforts that seek to enable the organization to support partners in their “great transformations”. The IF was established in 2014 with donor support to catalyze the use of novel approaches for development impact and provide seed funding to foster country-based innovation.
The IF is in this connection envisioned as a vehicle providing catalytic funding that helps the UNDP and its partners better understand the dynamics of transformational, systemic change. This will entail not only a shift in the type of policy problems that the Facility addresses, but also how to think about understanding and engaging with these problems. This requirest a shift from single point solutions that provide incremental improvement within an existing paradigm, towards an approach seeking to plant the seeds for an entirely new paradigm. The IF’s approach is based on the premise that if UNDP will be able to work simultaneously on developing a new supply (offers to governments based on a system transformation logic) and a new demand (interest from governments and donors to go beyond single point solutions), then it will be able to increase its development effects and leverage the Facility’s investments to attract new funding for joint efforts and R&D by development partners.
To deliver on this mission, the IF is supporting Country Offices with catalytic funding to implement so-called Deep Demonstrations (https://medium.com/@undp.innovation/deep-demonstrations-the-journey-begins-34bf063477bf). These seek to build new capabilities for system transformation that provide a different logic to addressing complex development issues. So far the IF has supported a first cohort of 9 Deep Demonstrations. In these Demonstrations, COs have deepened their understanding of complex policy issues, designed portfolios to engage with these, and in this process developed new systems capabilities. A second cohort of Deep Demonstrations is launching later in 2021.
Institutional Arrangement:
The position will report to the Global Advisor for Innovation, Strategic Innovation Unit, the Bureau of Policy and Programme Support. Consultancy is envisaged to be in Istanbul.