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NGO Job Opening: Innovation and Knowledge Management Manager, P4 at the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Innovation and Knowledge Management Manager, P4

Job no: 131001
Location: Abuja
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Level: P-4
Categories: Knowledge Management

How can you Make a Difference?

This role aims to manage, lead, and support demand for innovative processes and collaborate with the ICT Manager to co-drive the Technology for Development (T4D) programmatic support.
UNICEF programs increasingly leverage digital means for effective program delivery, systems strengthening and monitoring.
S/He will work closely with the ICT Manager to provide

Strategic guidance to programme teams in the identification, assessment and integration of innovative solutions, including ICT and digital innovation, into UNICEF programming,
Strengthen internal capacity to lead and support innovation and T4D related initiatives,
Identify and engage with key partners, building close business relationships,
Apply reusable and replicable technical buildings blocks, maximizing the potential for the scale-up and sustainability of technology and digital innovation for UNICEF programming.
Key Functions, Accountabilities and Related Duties / Tasks
Effective promotion of innovation across the UNICEF Nigeria Country office through the Innovation Governance Framework and Portfolio management:

Review and implement office-wide innovation strategy, based on UNICEF’s global and regional innovation strategies and the workplans
Coordinate country-specific development and testing of innovation products and processes that strengthen and improve UNICEF's programming and results for children and young people.
Support the innovation needs of eight zonal offices in Nigeria by regularly undertake field visits to monitor and assess programme implementation and decide on required corrective action, including in emergencies.
Lead deployment of a portfolio approach to solutions prioritized for UNICEF programming
Provide capacity building and training to UNICEF and partner staff and end-users in using innovative products and processes.
Policy and strategic development of technology-enabled Programming:

Provide leadership to the implementation, monitoring and reporting of the digital development and technology innovation strategy for the country office, including assessment of gaps, opportunities and scale-up innovative strategies in support of CO priorities.
Operationalize the development and technology innovation into the programme planning lifecycle through the Nigeria CO innovation strategy.
Coordinate with the ICT Manager/ Digital Transformation Lead on the development and quality assurance during planning and deployment of T4D initiatives; participate in establishing and maintaining standards, documentation and support mechanisms for T4D.
Finalize comprehensive mapping of planned, ongoing and completed innovation/T4D initiatives in Nigeria and upload in UNICEF’s innovation portfolio database INVENT.
Innovation Cross-Sectoral Technical and Programmatic support:
NCO has a robust portfolio of Innovation initiatives currently being implemented in various operational stages and the Innovation Manager will support these initiatives. Current examples include:

Accelerating open defecation-free (ODF) status across Nigeria
Develop and test urban sanitation models for insecure areas,
Test innovation for performance-based ODF achievement and reward system for LGAs, communities, and states, and
Revise strategies and tools for market-based sanitation and sanitation finance, and
Integrate expansion of female toilet business owners in market-based sanitation
Reducing stunting in children focusing on the first 1000 days of life
Reducing out-of-school children (OOSC) including developing a model for the southern states and improving tracking progress of out-of-school children
Reducing the number of zero-dose children who have never received any immunization and scale and use of operational innovations e.g. HOPE
Supporting birth registration/ legal identity for every child
Develop a framework to accelerate and integrate birth registration coverage with Primary Health Care services, particularly in rural and fragile settings, to improve accessibility and effectiveness,
Strengthen the National Population Commission (NPC) Innovation Hub,
Capacity building and training programmes for health workers and registrars,
Interoperability of eCRVS with legal identity and digital health data systems, and
Enhance digital infrastructure and equip NPC offices for digital operation.
Complementary to these innovation priorities are the use of innovative financing approaches within the country office like the public finance management for children (PF4C), exploring a multi-sector child grant mechanism (universal children benefits), and digital cash transfers to advance digital and financial inclusion with a gender lens.
Partnerships and technical support on Children and Adolescents, Youth Engagement and Advocacy :

Co-chair GenU 9JA Pillar 1 Task Force for Connectivity and Digital Learning,
Convene regular meetings with partners, agreeing on work plans, and aligning efforts for impact,
Strengthen existing relationships and support the creation of new partnerships with public, private, and youth partners, and
Support sections, private sector partnerships, and resource mobilization teams in partner engagements to advance innovation initiatives and results for children.
Collaborate with other pillars of the PMR network in Nigeria CO:

Provide exemplary management and leadership, motivating and developing staff under the pillars of the PMR network, programme sections and field offices to perform at their best and live the core values
Manage performance of the PMR network by regularly discussing performance, giving timely, constructive feedback, identify learning goals, among others 
Ensure a supportive work environment for the development of the team including work life balance
Develop and maintain a workplace environment in line with the core values of UNICEF.
Minimum Requirements
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

An Advanced University Degree in International Development, Business Administration, Information Technology, Innovation Management, or another related field is required
A minimum of 8 (eight) years of relevant professional experience in managing programmes or projects related to innovation, information technology for development, communication, and education with strong technology components across a large organization. Experience in start-up companies/organizations is an asset.
Experience identifying, designing, and implementing solutions for large-scale projects with technical components – including supervising external vendors and software developers; responsibility for business analysis, budgets, contracts, project management, and procurement, etc.
Experience in Open Source, mobile and emerging technology applied to UNICEF programme areas is extremely desirable.
Experience with RapidPro, OpenSRP, DHIS2, ODK, and other global public good technologies, and deploying, maintaining and scaling these technologies is highly desirable.
Good knowledge of current trends in youth participation and new media
Experience in managing internal and external partnerships, including international organizations.
Demonstrated experiences on design principles, human-centered design approaches, business modelling from ideas to market and customer services orientations are highly desirable.
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is an asset
Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.

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