Description:
The Innovations Lab has been established to support youth to realize change in their own lives by participating in projects that are developed, micro-funded, and supported through the Innovations Lab. Moreover, it aims to design, implement, and scale solutions involving data collection, analysis, visualization and dissemination for UNICEF’s partners in Kosovo.
Requirements:
- Demonstrated ability to support user-centered technology design and implementation
- Project management (based on agile methodology), including budget monitoring
- Ability to work with a diverse set of partners to create problem specifications, system requirements,
and then lead implementation of software and technology innovations on a national scale
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Ability to work effectively with young people and in a multilingual environment
- Advanced university degree, ideally related to the ICT and/or youth and/or innovations sector
- Five years of progressively responsible professional work experience at the national and international
levels in project management
Scope of work
- Under supervision of the Deputy Head of Office (and in coordination with Youth Officer of UNICEF
Kosovo and UNICEF Tech4Dev colleagues in NY), implement the overall Innovations Lab
strategy/action plan, including formulation, design, planning and management, with a strategic focus
on leveraging technological innovations for Kosovo’s youth and children.
- Working with the Youth Officer of UNICEF Kosovo, to provide leadership to the Lab team in assisting
youth to develop and implement projects, with a focus on ensuring global technology lessons are
applied to the projects.
- Work with UNICEF sections and partners to formulate, design, implement, test, and scale appropriate
technological and non-technological interventions to solve data and information needs of UNICEF
partners, with a focus on usercentered technology design.
- Develop partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders involving youth, technology and innovation,
both in Kosovo (e.g. universities, ICT associations, open source community, micro-grant funders, etc)
and internationally (e.g. UNICEF Tech4dev initiatives, academic institutions, etc).
- Work with UNICEF Kosovo Data and Knowledge Management team on internal tools for data and
information aggregation, visualization, and usage
- Lead communications efforts to internal and external partners.
Deadline: 07 December 2012
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