UN Children’s Fund UNICEF Jobs – Innovation Project Manager

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Organisation: UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Chief Innovation, UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen.
About Us:
UNICEF Supply Division is seeking a consultant as
“Innovation Project Manager” to develop and manage a number of UNICEF
innovation initiatives. UNICEF’s Uganda Country office (CO) is responsible for
running a number of “Technology for Development” (T4D) innovation projects and
have successfully developed projects such as Ureport, Digital Drum, mTrac, as
well as new projects such as RapidFTR and the Mobi-Station.
All development and roll-out takes place through the
UNICEF Uganda Innovation Hub. The Innovation Hub is a physical hardware and
software prototyping space. Collaboration with local and international
academia, as well as industry, enables the lab to develop prototypes and
solutions for rapid field testing together with UNICEF´s implementing partners
in Uganda. The innovative workshop allows rapid realization of ideas and
reiteration and improvement of existing solutions.
Innovation is at the heart of UNICEF Uganda, and
through collaboration with UNICEF Supply Division (SD) and Programme Division
(PD), many ‘in the field’ research, scouting and piloting of concepts,
initiatives and solutions have occurred, allowing the organization’s innovation
projects to gain important insights and discoveries, thus adding value to
UNICEF’s innovation projects.
The office requires an experienced project manager to
drive development, testing and scaling up of end user driven innovation
projects initiated by the Uganda Innovation Hub.
Job Summary: The consultancy will be split into two halves:
Mobi-Station Project Development. Month 1-3. Driven
from the UNICEF Uganda Innovation Hub, this new innovation is a solar-powered,
rugged box which houses ICT equipment (computer, speakers, projector etc) to
teach, train, and educate a number of different users in the field. In these
early stages of development, the audience includes community health workers,
parents and school children in areas such as health, hygiene and schooling.
The Mobi Station project has been developed through
UNICEF´s Uganda Innovation Hub by its team of designers and hardware and
software engineers. It will be ready for piloting in different regions of
Uganda in January 2014 in areas of Child Protection, Health and Education. The
objective of the Innovation Project Manager is to:
  • Take overall management
    of this project
  • Manage in-country pilot.
  • Plan scale implementation
    nationally and possibly regionally.
UNICEF Uganda Innovation Hub project assistance and
management.
Month 3-6. As new, user driven innovation projects
continue to be developed by the UNICEF Uganda Innovation Hub, co-ordination
between the in-country work and UNICEF Headquarters will be essential to ensure
efficient coordination and scaling of solutions. The role of the Innovation
Project Manager will be to:
  • Coordinate and
    communicate projects with UNICEF Headquarter networks (SD, PD etc).
  • Provide project
    management assistance to the project’s development.
Key Job Deliverables:
1.
Overall project management of the Mobi-Station project including:
  • Manage and document
    pilot, feedback and evaluation of Mobi-Station project.
  • Mapping and coordination
    of key stakeholders (national ministries, education sections, PD, SD etc.)
    to plan efficient scaling up nationally.
  • Provide regular project
    updates to project team and key stakeholders including the SD Innovation
    Unit.
  • Document methodology and
    lessons learned from pilot.
  • Keep project communicated
    via UNICEFinnovation.org
2. Further management of Mobi-Station project :
  • Discover requirements to
    scale solution regionally and create recommendations to larger scaled
    implementation in other countries/ regions, i.e. what would be required to
    successfully implement Mobi-Stations in other countries?
  • Document and set up clear
    monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for the Mobi-Station project’s scale
    up.
  • Create product and
    component specifications for procurement and scale-up of the Mobi-Station
    project.
  • Provide on-going and
    final documentation of maintenance procedures for the Mobi-Station with clearly
    defined (and implemented) hand-over strategy.
3. New projects and initiatives developed by the
UNICEF Innovation Hub:
  • Provide project
    management assistance to new projects development.
  • Document and set up clear
    monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for new innovation projects initiated
    by the Innovation Hub Uganda.
  • Coordinate and
    communicate new projects developed by Innovation Hub Uganda with UNICEF PD
    and SD networks and via UNICEF innovation.org
Qualifications, Skills &
Experience:
  • Five years professional
    relevant work experience holistic management of product development
    projects, in particular for developing regions.
  • A master Degree in
    Product Design/Engineering/Innovation or relevant discipline.
  • Experience in planning
    documenting and conducting end user research in challenging environments.
  • Knowledge of innovative
    use of technologies in developing countries.
  • Experience in monitoring
    and evaluation (M+E) of implemented solutions.
  • Knowledge of the
    environment UNICEF operates, and understanding of the constraints of
    working in difficult geographical locations.
Personal
Competencies:
  • Demonstrated communication
    and relationship building skills.
  • Excellent oral and
    written presentation skills.
  • Proven capacity to work
    with and lead collaborative teams across different locations and with
    different technical skills.
  • Experience in budgeting
    and coordinating large scale projects.
How to Apply:
All qualified candidates are requested to submit:
  • Cover letter/application.
  • Financial quote for
    consultancy at a monthly rate in US Dollars excluding all taxes.
  • Updated CV.
  • Examples of previous,
    relevant work.
  • Proposed methodology/approach
    to managing Mobi Station project pilot and scale-up.
  • References
  • P 11 form (which can be
    downloaded from our website at  http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_53129.html
    ).
All candidates should send their applications to: innovateforchildren@unicef.org
/ ugderecruit@unicef.org with
subject line “Innovation Project Manager: Uganda.” Please indicate your
availability to undertake the terms of reference above.
Deadline: 25th
November 2013 by 5:00p.m CET.

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