Summary
Date Posted: 7th march 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full_Time , Currency: RWF , Value: 300000 , Minimum: 210000 , Maximum: 900000 , Period: MONTH

JOB DETAILS:
Job announcement
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP - Rwanda) is announcing the following vacancy.
I. Position Information
Job Code Title: Head of Solutions Mapping
Department: UNDP
Reports to: UNDP Resident Representative
Grade: NOB
Type of contract: Fixed Term Appointment
Duration: One year renewable
Deadline: March 20, 2019
II. Key Functions
• Developing and sustaining positive relationships with a range of local community and citizen groups
• Identifying and training local volunteers, recruiting Universities and think tanks for sustaining long term community outreach and engagement and identification of lead users, providing training and mentoring
• Translaton of ethnographic and field research findings into learning and action for the acceleration lab activities
• Design specific field research and participatory methods to focus on the most vulnerable populations and those not usually engaged in public policy debates on development methods
• Explore, document and increase understanding on emerging methods of tapping into collective intelligence for sustainable development
• Design and implement methodology for intaking indigenous knowledge and local solutions, consolidating, screening and further describing incoming ideas
• Design criteria/metrics for assessing consolidating incoming local solutions
• Conduct field research to determine best methods fo making solutions transferable
• Test the solutions and potential ideas in real life context to understand potential channels of spreading (including identifying private and public sector venues for uptake)
• Analyse system level issues that local solutions address (and don’t address, therefore exposing gaps)
• Design of ‘things and tools’ needed to successful scale indigenous knowledge, lead user solutions, turning its insights into systemic change
• Design methods for integrating collective intellengence into UNDP programmes and engage with programme and project managers to translate ideas into concrete practice
• Advice on the accelerator lab’s experiment portfolio to ensure experiments are designed based on people’s knowledge, behaviors and peer to peer methods of managing and diffusing knowledge about sustainable development issues.
• Ensure ethics framework is implemented for the lab’s portfolio of experiments
• Design methods to test accelerator ideas for their applicability and diffusion
• Integrate cultural norms, peer to peer methods and behaviorial insights into technology based experiments
• Convene a broad range of new partners with UNDP including artists, community organizers and emergent movements to explore areas for collaboration on sustainable development
• Lead communication efforts and proactively use blog and social media to share findings from field research
• Ensure UNDP’s communication efforts respect privacy and ethics considerations
• Help embed solutions mapping lead user methodology within the CO portfolio, design and provide trainings that include various methodologies and steps to identify and work with lead users
• Liaise with the broader Accelerator Lab network and the support team to share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience
III. Recruitment qualification
Education background
Master’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Communications or related field and minimum of 2 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization
OR
Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, Sociology, Behavioral psychology, Design, Communications or related field and minimum of 4 years of professional experience in development programming or policy;
Social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization
Experience
• Demonstrated ability to undertake field research in remote communities and document ethnographic evidence and honor expertise in usual places
• Demonstrate ability to work in participatory methods, follow the lead of people as experts in their own sustainable development
• Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation.
• Proven professional knowledge and experience in approaches such as Ethnography, behavioral insights, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, service journeys or human centered design
• Demonstrated ability to work with partners to help surface unarticulated needs
• Proven ability to design ethical frameworks for managing public sector experiments
Experience in following areas is desirable but not necessary:
Language Requirement
Proficiency in written and spoken English

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Job application procedure
Interested candidates are invited to read the full job description and apply only online via
https://jobs.partneragencies.net/erecruitjobs.html?JobOpeningId=21427&hrs_jo_pst_seq=1&hrs_site_id=2
Deadline for submission of applications: 20 March 2019
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for substantive assessment.
Deputy Country Director Operations
UNDP Rwanda