Apply for the Head of Experimentation Vacancy at the UN in Myanmar. The deadline for the vacancy is 31st May 2020.

Duties for Head of Experimentation Vacancy

Experiment portfolio design

• Works with UNDP and partners in mapping the context and nature of development challenges, with a particular focus on understanding systemic issues beyond traditional silos and classifications and identifying drivers of change, and levers for intervention;
• Additionally, mapping systems and assets, identifying levers and logic for intervention, building hypotheses of change that are a fit to the system-level challenges identified;
• Also, the incumbent works with colleagues from UNDP programs and government counterparts to identify logic against which to asses fit and coherence of the individual portfolios with the frontier challenges on which they are meant to generate learning;

Management of tests and experiments for sustainable development challenges

• Collaborate with UNDP colleagues and stakeholders on the design of experiments across to validate the hypotheses and test the effectiveness of identified prototypes, including defining variables, formulating hypotheses, and coordinating experimental protocols;
• Additionally, the incumbent will develop a framework to capture the learning from the experiments in such a way that it favors critical reflection and rapid adaptation over static reporting.

Working out Loud

• Proactively use a blog and social media to share findings from the experiments and portfolio implementation;
• Also, help UNDP and partners disseminate insights from Accelerator lab experiments via social media platforms as a way to regularly reflect and engage with external audiences.
• Likewise, liaise with UNDP’s global Accelerator Lab network and share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience;
• Additionally, jointly with the CO, support lab partners to develop an emerging pipeline of new initiatives, etc.
• Also, design and deliver engaging and meaningful methods for reflection on learning from experiments.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree in Social Science, International Development, Environmental Science, Transition or Complexity Science, Engineering, Design (e.g. industrial or service design, architecture, urban planning), Psychology or a related area and a minimum of 2 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization, or;
• Bachelor’s degree in Social Science, International Development, Environment Science, Engineering, Design (e.g. industrial or service design, architecture, urban planning), Psychology or related area and a minimum of 4 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization.

Experience

• Demonstrated ability to design experiments validate hypotheses and test prototypes;
• Also, demonstrated successful experience in bringing about organizational change;
• Professional experience in development programming or specific policy areas and social innovation;
• Experience in the following areas is desirable but not necessary:
  • Proven professional knowledge and experience in social innovation approaches such as Systems Thinking, Behavioral Insights, Qualitative and Quantitative User Research, Co-creation, Prototyping, Lean Startup, Design Thinking, Data Empowerment, and Collective Intelligence;
  • Also, demonstrated experience in applying experimental and portfolio logics to a specific policy area (or social issue);
  • Additionally, demonstrated ability to work with clients to help surface unarticulated needs;
  • Demonstrated ability in running co-design sessions and capacity-building in experimental design, lean iteration, and impact evaluation.

Language Requirements: Fluency in the English language