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UNFPA results capture their strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

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UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity and healthy work-life balance. We are committed to ensuring gender parity in the organization and therefore encourage women to apply. Individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community, minority ethnic groups, indigenous populations, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups are highly encouraged to apply.

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A. Providing programmatic and technical support

• Under the Chief of Innovation Unit’s leadership, provide programmatic and technical support in delivering the objectives of the Innovation Unit, including tracking and updating major targets, milestones, and deliverables, with a particular focus on the Equalizer Accelerator Fund and its related initiatives, such as the Equity 2030 Alliance;
• Collaborate with Business Units to draft and process programmatic and partnership-related documents on innovation, ensuring adherence to UNFPA policies and procedures;
• Manage the technical coordination of the development, roll-out, and monitoring of the Global Innovation Strategy;
• Prepare and support the monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of information, aligning with the agreed performance indicators to enhance management efficiency and accountability for results on innovation as an accelerator.

B.  Strengthening UNFPA’s internal innovation capabilities

• Provide technical and advisory support to Country Offices in response to needs assessments, including capacity development to strengthen the mainstreaming of innovative products at the program level in close collaboration with HQ and Regional office colleagues;
• Support Regional Innovation Focal Points in executing the regional innovation strategies and mainstreaming innovation within their regions. In particular, contribute to addressing programmatic and technical innovation bottlenecks to supporting current and planned innovations, and identifying pathways for scale-up phases;
• Support the facilitation and roll-out of innovation learning and capacity-building activities in UNFPA, as well as identify and flag the opportunities to showcase UNFPA’s innovation work;
• Plan and coordinate the collection of internal briefings and background materials on innovation topics for staff members, management and governing body meetings.

C.  Strengthening UNFPA’s external engagements on innovation

• Support the design, coordinate and manage external innovation activities, such as innovation challenges, workshops and conferences, together with implementing and strategic partners;
• Preparation of briefing notes and related documents for external partner engagement and technical support in responding to queries from stakeholders;
• Prepare content for internal and external media and communications platforms, and campaigns, to advocate the UNFPA innovation initiatives and goals for external audiences.

Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications and Experience: 

Education:  

An advanced degree (Master’s or equivalent) in business administration, social studies, public health, international development, or a related field is required.

Knowledge and Experience: 

• At least five years of increasingly responsible professional experience developing and implementing innovation and development programmes and building partnerships.
• Experience in developing and implementing corporate strategies and designing and coordinating stakeholder-led initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience in establishing and utilizing knowledge and innovation management platforms is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of the innovation ecosystem in development fora is an asset.

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