UNDP Job Circular 2020 – ইউএনডিপি বাংলাদেশ এ নিয়োগ বিজ্ঞপ্তি

• Work with government counterparts and UNDP programs to identify, visualize and communicate emerging development trends, data, technologies and issues with a particular focus on the edges and “below the radar screen” events, opportunities and players, and systemically map their impacts on  economy, environment, society, and livelihoods of the poorest.
• Identify new sources of evidence and insights, analyze and visualize patterns in unstructured sources of data, present new insights in accessible and comprehensive ways to enable sensemaking and analysis
• Proactively explore and identify the new methods/approaches and frontier knowledge to tackle development challenges, collaborate with the Experimentation lead to turn these into learning options for addressing specific policy issues in the country
• Provide technical guidance for horizon scanning, foresight and data analysis for colleagues and partners.
• Contribute to the formulation of the Accelerator Lab service lines to the UNDP Country Programme based on findings from horizon scanning, systems’ mapping, and local knowledge

• Demonstrate through exploratory tests the utility of new data sources for UNDP’s development work
• Connect UNDP with different players in the data ecosystem: data providers, experts in ethics and privacy, data scientists, subject domain experts, social scientists, IT providers
• Create partnerships for analyses of real time and other data to better inform decisions and policies
• Set up partnerships with private sector companies including mobile network operators among others to gain access to anonymized data sets that can be used for sustainable development.
• Design and deliver workshops, tools, or platforms that tap into the collective intelligence of communities and mobilise action.
• Proactively manage risks with using data and technology, including those related to ethics and privacy
• Transform unstructured data sets into insights for UNDP and partners

• Share findings from the exploration on future trends, new methodologies/approaches, potential partnership,and others within UNDP and with partners;
• Proactively use blog posts and social media to share insights, attract partners and help position Accelerator Lab at the forefront of the exploration of new trends.
• Liaise with UNDP’s global Accelerator Lab network and share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience
• Jointly with the CO, support lab partners to develop an emerging pipeline of new initiatives, support other activities related to the design and operation of the Lab

• Advocates for the need of UNDP programs and government counterparts to keep abreast of emerging trends, identify “weak signals” and adopt anticipatory approaches
• Advocates for the need to embed intelligence derived from data into programs and portfolios of experiments
• Set up tools and partnerships to ransform information into actionable intelligence
• Design and deliver horizon scanning trainings for partners and UNDP, help embed horizon scanning and attention to the ‘edge’ activities in the CO and with the partners
• Work together with your Accelerator Lab colleagues and experts to codify and advance the Accelerator Lab practice and exploration in particular.
• Organize and implement knowledge sharing and network events;
• Lead other activities related to the design and operations of the Accelerator Lab
• Design and deliver engaging and meaningful methods for reflection on learning from explorations

Important applicant information

All posts in the GS categories are subject to local recruitment.

Applicant information about UNDP rosters

Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.

Workforce diversity

UNDP is committed to achieving diversity within its workforce, and encourages all qualified applicants, irrespective of gender, nationality, disabilities, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds to apply. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

Scam warning

The United Nations does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Should you receive a solicitation for the payment of a fee, please disregard it. Furthermore, please note that emblems, logos, names and addresses are easily copied and reproduced. Therefore, you are advised to apply particular care when submitting personal information on the web.