Emplois au PNUD - 81710- Innovation Facility Fund Coordinator

Innovation Facility Fund Coordinator

Lieu :

New York, ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE

Type de contrat :

Individual Contract

Date de commencement :

02-Jan-2019

Date limite de candidature :

22-Oct-18 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

International Consultant

Durée du contrat initial

Initially 7 months (140 working days)

Langues requises :

Anglais

Durée prévue de la mission :

Up to one year

Le PNUD s’engage à recruter un personnel divers en termes de genre, de nationalité et de culture. Nous encourageons de même les personnes issues des minorités ethniques, des communautés autochtones ou handicapées à postuler. Toutes les candidatures seront traitées dans la plus stricte confidentialité. Le PNUD ne tolère pas l’exploitation et / ou les atteintes sexuelles, ni aucune forme de harcèlement, y compris le harcèlement sexuel, et / ou toutes formes de discrimination. Tous/tes les candidats/tes selectectionnes /ées devront ainsi se soumettre à de rigoureuses vérifications relatives aux références fournies ainsi qu’à leurs antécédents.

Historique

UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2018-2021 emphasizes the need to innovate – to identify, test, evaluate and scale up novel approaches across UNDP’s subject areas, in programme development, management and review. The Strategic Plan identifies a specific result in the Integrated Results and Resources Framework related to innovation: Percentage of country offices that pilot and/or scale innovative tools and methodologies.”

To achieve these results, the UNDP Innovation Facility works with all parts of the organization to foster skills, iteratively develop methods and tools based on concrete interventions, to identify and share lessons and to remove organizational bottlenecks for innovation.

The UNDP Innovation Facility (IF), hosted in the Development Impact Group, Bureau of Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), supports initiatives that a) strengthens UNDP’s position as a leading advisor on innovation for development; b) enables national development actors to co-create value; c) increases understanding of the role and value of innovation for development; d) supports social innovators both within the organization and from the broader development community; and finally, e) enhances UNDP’s own performance efficiency through innovative practices.

The Innovation Facility coordinates the allocation, tracking, and reporting of innovation funds and provides substantive support to Country Offices with Regional Portfolio Teams consisting of BPPS staff and Regional Bureaux Representatives.

Under the overall guidance of the Global Advisor for Knowledge Management and Innovation, the primary function of the Consultant is to provide project management and implementation support to the Innovation Facility, to Regional Portfolio Teams and Country Offices; to design, track, monitor and report innovation related corporate performance indicators; support the constant upgrade of monitoring and evaluation systems for innovation, in close collaboration with relevant corporate units; support the Global Advisor with support services on innovation for internal clients and with outreach to external partners.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Objectives and deliverables

Provide guidance on financial management of the UNDP Innovation Facility to Regional Advisors; support the financial management of the global project through regular (monthly and in Q4 weekly) update reports on global and regional delivery;
Support the oversight of the implementation of the 2018 portfolio of the Innovation Facility and prepare update reports as required;
Lead the management, design and quality assurance of project monitoring, analyses and reporting of Innovation Facility project and ROAR innovation indicators for the flagship annual Innovation Facility report, the IRRF and relevant corporate reporting frameworks;
Support the coordination of internal learning mechanisms and processes to identify lessons from UNDP’s innovation portfolio through designing questionnaires and processes to source lessons and through convening relevant parts of the organization for reflection exercises at specific milestones.
Contribute to the strategy development of the next phase of the Innovation Facility including through outreach to partners and coordinating the engagement of partners and donors in designing the strategy.
Prepare and deliver presentations on UNDP’s innovation work for internal audiences (including leadership programme participants, Country Office colleagues and other constituencies) and prepare briefing notes and speeches for senior management as per request;
Develop specific donor fund-raising strategies and prepare proposals for mobilization of human, technical or financial resources from private sector partners and donors;
Support the management of Project Board meetings through developing background documentation and project status updates and support the production of internal briefs and analysis for executive decision making.
Coordinate the engagement with other corporate innovation work-tracks and support the alignment of the Innovation Facility with UNDP’s overall strategic approach to innovation.
Support the Global Advisor with the engagement in relevant networks, including participation in the UN Innovation Network, the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation, the Partnership on AI and others.

Compétences

Proven expertise in the field of innovation for development;
Proven experience with advancing new ways of working in organizations and/or companies;
Proven expertise in the field of creating adaptive monitoring systems;
Proven ability to create new and relevant business opportunities;
Proven ability to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals;
Ability to engage collaboratively with partners (including other UN agencies), donors, and other development stakeholders and forge productive working relationships;
Knowledge of project and fund management (budgeting, expenditure, reporting) related procedures to ensure that quality requirements and goals are fulfilled.
Strong communication and writing skills.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

Master’s Degree or equivalent Advanced Degree in social science, economics or related field with specific focus on development, communications, and innovation.

Experience:

A minimum of 7 years of professional working experience in relevant fields with several years focusing on innovation; (15 points)
Proven expertise in project management support including budget monitoring (20 points);
Experience in building networks and relationship management including strategy development and resource mobilization (fund raising; strategy formulation) (20 points);
Strong knowledge of social innovation and measuring the impact of innovation; (15 Points)
Prior knowledge of UNDP and UN financial and budget management procedures/protocols is desirable. (10 points)

Language:

Mastery of English;
Working knowledge of other languages is an advantage.

Evaluation Method:

Cumulative Analysis - The financial proposal will account 20% (maximum 20 points) and technical proposal will account for 80% (maximum 80 points) of the total evaluation score.

Criteria for Financial Evaluation:

The following formula has been used to evaluate financial proposal: p = y (µ/z)

p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated.

y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal.

µ = price of the lowest priced proposal.

z = price of the proposal being evaluated.