Policy Innovation Knowledge Management Analyst

• Country: Bangkok, Thailand
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNDP 
• Gender: Both 
• Deadline: 2024-01-05

The Policy Innovation Knowledge Management Analyst will support and facilitate the coordination and implementation of the following components:

Knowledge Management on Policy Innovation Process.

• Guide content and feedback summaries and learning analysis of activities and projects under the Thailand Policy Lab’s reimagined policymaking process framework.
• Work with NESDC to summarize and compile Thailand Policy Lab’s innovative tools and process based on real learnings and experience.
• Work with NESDC to visualize knowledge content on policy innovation (e.g., policy innovation processes, policy innovation tools, etc.) in a creative and digestible format for policymakers and the general public
• Propose knowledge management activities by collecting, gathering and/or providing inputs for the Thailand Policy Lab’s guidebooks, reports, factsheets, etc.

Design and Mapping Policy Innovation Process and Prototypes

• Guide the designing and implementing methods for Thailand Policy Lab’s reimagined policymaking process knowledge management and solutions.
• Guide the designing criteria for consolidating policy solutions. Work with Thailand Policy Lab’s Policy Experimentation Analysts to identify ways for policy solutions to be integrated into Thailand’s policy making process.
• Conduct field and desk research to determine best methods fo making solutions transferable, design methods to test and stretch ideas for their applicability and diffusion as part of a portfolio approach.
• Guide the designing things and tools needed for policy innovation activities, turning their insights into systemic change and translate ideas into concrete practice

Working out loud

• Oversee the design of physical communication activities such as exhibitions, events, forums, etc.
• Oversee TPLab online communication activities through TPLab and UNDP social media platforms.
• Support the management of all TPLab publication activities, including content management, norms for publishing, design, liaison with the graphic designers, printers, and other suppliers to oversee production and supervision of publications dissemination.
• Proactively capture and share findings from the portfolio implementation.
• Help UNDP and NESDC disseminate insights from policy experiments as a way to regularly reflect and engage with external audiences.
• Liaise with UNDP’s network and share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience.
• Jointly with the UNDP and NESDC, support TPLab’s partners to develop an emerging pipeline of new initiatives, support other activities related to the design and operation of the TPLab.
• Design and deliver engaging and meaningful methods for reflection on learning from experiments.
• Perform other activities related to the design and operations of the TPLab.

Organizational learning, working out loud and grafting experimentation onto the core business of UNDP and NESDC

• Working with partners to encourage reflection and capturing of insights from experiments, as they related to the overall portfolio logic.
• Provide technical consultation and training for NESDC, UNDP and partners through various phases including asset mapping, developing a strategic portfolio logic, experiment design, prototype testing, and evaluation

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross Functional & Technical competencies:

Digital & Innovation

• Agile methodologies and practices: Ability to manage projects and processes through continuous iteration, learning and improvement; Ability to manage a self-organising cross-functional teams, foster a team culture of curiosity and learning; Being nimble and being able to improvise and quickly adjust to unforeseen events or changes in conditions or context
• Innovation management: Being able to create the, strategies, conditions, structures and systems to enable innovation at an organisational level; Ability to navigate uncertainty and ambiguity, is able manage projects based principles of adaptation and emergence; Ability to shape demand for innovation services, navigate political constraints and make the case for allocation of resources to innovation, connect the appropriate innovation approaches based on business needs and make the case for innovation to be integrated at the planning level within their context; Having in-depth theoretical and experiential knowledge of innovation processes, methods, capabilities.
• Experimentation: Ability to design, run and manage tests to evaluate ideas, solutions, or interventions to address development challenges, observe and learn about (system-wide) effects and implications; Selecting appropriate experimentation methods, tools to fit with specific learning purposes (probe, trail & error, validate), conditions and constraints; being able to assess their potential risks, trade-offs and ethical ramifications; Ability to turn test results into recommendations, document and present them in compelling ways to inform further improvements, iterative development cycles, planning and decision making

Business Direction & Strategy

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with UNDP’s objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenged, potential risks, and opportunities; linking the vision to reality on the group and creating tangible solutions; Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends; to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP

Business Development

• Human-centered Design: Ability to develop solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process

Business Management

• Partnership Management: Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Innovation Design, Architecture, Public Administration, International Development, Social Sciences, or related disciplines is required, or
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• Up to 2 years (with master’s degree) or 2 years (with bachelor’s degree of progressively responsible experience  in public sector, private sector, or international organizations – ideally with experience in public policy process, innovative management approaches and public and private sector knowledge management analysis.
• Proven experience in working with governments or international organizations on innovation is an asset.
• Proven experience in graphic design in the public sector, private sector, or international organizations is an asset.
• Demonstrated experience in innovative approached in development work is desirable.
• Knowledge of UNDP or the UN System is desirable.
• Experience in working in or with similar policy labs is preferred
• Extensive experience of coordinating international and multi-sector stakeholders including private, public and the civil sectors partners.
• Job Knowledge and Technical Expertise on Policy and/or Public Sector Innovation
• Experience in designing and developing graphic designs, communication materials and other related materials.
• Experience in developing content and feedback summaries and learning analysis of workshops and trainings.

Required Languages:

• Fluency in English and Thai is required.

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