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Job Title:        Head of Experimentation

Organization: United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda

About US:

The United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nation’s global development network.
UNDP advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and
resources to help people build a better life. The UNDP provides expert advice,
training, grant support to developing countries including Uganda with
increasing emphasis on assistance to the least developed countries. 

Key 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
• Management of prototype 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 warranted.

Working out Loud

• Proactively use blog and social media to ahare findings from the
  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 Lab
• Organizational learning, working out loud and grafting
  experimentation onto 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
• 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;

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The ideal applicant for the United Nations UNDP Head of
  Experimentation job placement should hold a Master’s degree in Social
  Science, International Development, Science, Engineering, Design (eg.
  industrial or architecture), Psychology or a related area
• At least four years of professional experience in development
  programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement
  (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization
• Proven ability to design experiments, validate hypotheses and test
  prototypes;
• Professional experience in development programming or policy and
  social innovation.
• Experience in following areas is desirable but not necessary:
• Proven professional knowledge and experience in social innovation
  approaches such as Design Thinking, behavioral insights, Qualitative and
  Quantitative User Research, Experiment Design & Validation, data
  empowerment, and collective intelligence
• Demonstrated ability to work with clients to help surface
  unarticulated needs
• Demonstrated ability to apply a portfolio logic to experiments
• Demonstrated ability in running co-design sessions and
  capacity-building in experimental design, lean iteration and impact
  evaluation.

Competencies

• Innovation: Ability
  to make new and useful ideas work Level 4: Adept with complex concepts and
  challenges convention purposefully
• Leadership: Ability
  to persuade others to follow Level 4: Generates commitment, excitement and
  excellence in others
• People Management: Ability
  to improve performance and satisfaction Level 4: Models independent
  thinking and action
• Communication: Ability
  to listen, adapt, persuade and transform Level 4: Synthesizes information
  to communicate independent analysis
• Delivery: Ability
  to get things done while exercising good judgement Level 4: Meets goals
  and quality criteria for delivery of products or services

UNDP is committed to
achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture.
Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with
disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated
with the strictest confidence.

How to Apply:

All suitably
qualified and interested candidates who so desire to join the United Nations
Development Programme, UNDP, in the aforementioned capacity should endeavor to
Apply Online by Clicking on the link below. Please further review job
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Deadline: 22^nd May 2019

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