UNDP Head of Experimentation Jobs 2022 – Nigeria NGO Jobs. UNDP Nigeria programme looking for “Head of Experimentation”. Applicants with a Master’s Degree may apply on or before 14 April 2022.
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UNDP Head of Experimentation Jobs 2022
The UNDP has published a job vacancy announcement on 31 March 2022 for qualified Nigeria’s to fill in the vacant post of Head of Experimentation to be based in Lagos, Nigeria.
| Recruiter | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) |
| Position | Head of Experimentation |
| Location | Lagos, Nigeria |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | Master’s Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum 4 years |
| Application Deadline | 14 April 2022 |
UNDP Job Vacancy 2022
Job Purpose: You are capable and excited about starting, designing and managing activities, direct engagement with local communities and collaboration across global networks. You are driven by learning new things, figuring out how they work and translating them across sectors. You tell stories of emergent solutions and you gravitate to solving global development challenges.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- 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
- Together with UNDP and development partners, coordinate portfolios of experiments to target multiple domains of complex problems.
- 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.
Qualification:
- Master’s degree in Social Science, International Development, Environmental Science, Transition or Complexity Science, Engineering, Design (e.g. industrial or service design, architecture, urban planning), Psychology or a related area; OR
- Bachelor’s degree with additional two years in the related areas will be given due consideration.
Experience:
- Minimum 2 years (with Masters) or 4 years (with Bachelor degree) of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization
- Demonstrated 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 Systems Thinking, Behavioral Insights, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, Co-creation, Prototyping, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, 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.
Other Details
- Contract Type: Full Time
- Selection Process: Interview
- Language Requirements: Proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Salary: negotiable
- Application Process: Online
How to Apply UNDP Head of Experimentation Jobs 2022
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
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The Closing Date: 14 April 2022
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Download |
| Official Website | www.undp.org |
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