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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.
Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.
Office/Unit/Project Description
UNDP is the development arm of the United Nations. Present in 170 countries with over 17,000 people, UNDP works on the world’s biggest problems: extreme poverty, climate change, good governance, renewable energy, crisis prevention, and women’s empowerment, among others.
The recently approved UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025 highlights the importance of digital as one of the key enablers to achieve UNDP’s mandate. UNDP’s Digital Strategy 2022-2025 builds upon the Strategic Plan and puts forth a vision whereby digital is an empowering force for people and planet, in which the implementation of digital public goods is a strategic priority for enabling inclusive digital ecosystems globally. Digital Public Goods are as defined by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable laws and best practices, do no harm by design, and help attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNDP co-hosts the Secretariat of the DPGA, established in follow-up to the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation. In its report, the Panel recommends as 1B “that a broad, multi-stakeholder alliance, involving the UN, create a platform for sharing digital public goods, engaging talent and pooling data sets, in a manner that respects privacy, in areas related to attaining the SDGs”. UNDP believes that digital public goods (DPGs), is the strategic approach to support structural transformations, particularly inclusive and digital transitions. Given the scale of UNDP’s footprint and technology procurements in countries, there is significant opportunity to accelerate our work in building the local digital ecosystems in low- and middle-income countries to effectively implement DPGs that address critical development needs, built for scale and with safeguards from the new and emerging risks of digital, especially those at risk of being left behind.
Institutional Arrangement
The Digital Public Good (DPG) Learning & Product Specialist will report to the Head of UNDP Digital Public Goods.
The position is home-based, with the option of working from the office in Kigali, Accra, Dar-E-Salam, Lagos.