Summary
Date Posted: 16th May 2019 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
  If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
PURPOSE FOR THE JOB:
The Innovation Officer reports to the Knowledge Management and Innovation Specialist for supervision.
The overall responsibility of this position is to provide technical level support to innovation and T4D initiatives in the country with a special focus on adolescent participation.
Reporting to the Knowledge Management Specialist, this position supports various activities related to the conceptualization and scale-up of T4D projects in addition to leveraging innovation and knowledge management to handle emerging youth and adolescent issues more effectively for UNICEF Tanzania including ensuring meaningful engagement and participation of adolescent boys and girls.
This function liaises with the stakeholders that include ICT, innovation, programme colleagues and various partners at the project and operations support level to facilitate the contextualization of learnings from innovative programming and pilots for country programme..

Key end results:
Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
Support to programme development, planning, and implementation
• Coordinate various activities for the implementation of the country office innovation strategy with a special focus on the online and offline meaningful participation of adolescents.
• Support work planning, bimonthly, annual reports and monitoring of results for the T4D initiatives and other innovative initiatives in the country.
• Prepare required programme documentations, reports, materials and data to facilitate programme review and approval processes.
• Support country office with the scale of innovative initiatives (RapidPro, U-report etc) including providing sectoral support to leverage innovation and T4D for meaningful participation of adolescent boys and girls.
• Collaboratively work with colleagues and partners to identify implementation issues, provide solutions, recommendations to alert officials and stakeholders of higher-level interventions or decisions.
• Provide support towards RFP, TA and contracting processes and coordinate with external suppliers for T4D and innovation projects.

Job Skills: Not Specified
Job Qualifications: Not Specified

Education: Advanced university degree in Information Systems Management, Computer Science, International Affairs, International Relations, International Development, Business Management, or related practical experience.

Experience:
• Minimum two years' experience managing, designing and implementing solutions for large-scale innovation/T4D projects, including supervising engineers and software developers/contractors, responsibility for budgets, contracts and procurement, etc.
• Experience with technology-related projects in a development context and/or the UN.
• Proven skills in training, management, and strategic thinking. Proven ability to conceptualize, plan, and execute ideas as well as transfer knowledge and skills
• Excellent communication skills; written and oral.

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Job application procedure
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