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UNDP Digital & AI Capacity Building Lead || Apply Now|
UNDP’s efforts to establish a Digital and AI Capacity Building Practice. Building on the aims within the GDC, the aim of the Practice is to foster partnerships, strengthen digital capabilities of stakeholders, and ensure alignment with UNDP’s broader digital transformation and development objectives.
Duties and Responsibilities of AI Capacity Building
1. Strategic Leadership and Programme Management
- Lead the design, planning, and implementation of a global Digital and AI Capacity Building programme aligned with UNDP’s Digital Strategy and the Global Digital Compact.
- Oversee the Digital and AI Capacity building programme management cycles, including budgeting, resource allocation, risk management, and reporting, ensuring timely delivery of objectives.
- Define the Digital and AI Capacity building programme goals, KPIs, and monitoring frameworks, ensuring scalability and relevance across UNDP’s country offices and partners.
- Anticipate challenges, identify solutions, and ensure alignment with UNDP’s operational priorities.
2. Partnership Development and Donor Engagement
- Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with donors, governments, private sector entities, and civil society to mobilize resources for the programme.
- Serve as a focal point for donor relations, ensuring effective communication and alignment with donor priorities.
- Advocate for investments in capacity building through active participation in global forums and events.
3. Capacity Building and Knowledge Management
- Design and deliver capacity-building frameworks and initiatives for governments and partners to enhance their digital and programmatic capabilities.
- Develop and disseminate tools, guidelines, and best practices for digital and programme management capacity building, ensuring inclusivity and relevance.
- Foster peer learning and the development of a global community of practice focused on digital transformation.
4. Team and Resource Management
- Oversee the efficient management of programme resources, ensuring compliance with UNDP policies and procedures.
- Foster a results-oriented and collaborative work culture that encourages innovation and inclusivity.
- Represent UNDP in high-level discussions and inter-agency collaborations on digital capacity building.
- Advocate for the integration of digital tools and principles in global development efforts, emphasizing inclusivity and ethics.
- Contribute to thought leadership by authoring publications and policy briefs on digital capacity building and programme management.
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Required Skills and Experience
- Proven experience managing large-scale programmes and mobilizing resources.
- Demonstrated experience working with donors, private sector partners, and/or international organizations.
- Demonstrated experience in project and team management.
- Strong demonstrated understanding of digital technologies, digital transformation and digital development practice
Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section:
- Strong demonstrated understanding of UNDP’s mandate, the Global Digital Compact, and the Sustainable Development Goals is desired
- Demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement is desired.
- Demonstrated ability to capture and synthesize information to produce analysis and recommendations is desired.
- Experience in managing multicultural teams and fostering diversity and inclusion is desired.
- Willingness to travel globally as required.
Required Language(s):
- Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge of an additional UN language (French, Spanish, or Arabic) is an asset.
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Specifications
| Type of Opportunity | Internships |
|---|---|
| Deadline | 10 February,2025 |
| Country | Home Based |
| Organizer | UNDP |