: UNDP Thailand
: Other / อื่นๆ
: 1195
: 18 November 2020
9 December 2020
Background
The UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021 embraces the complexity of development and commits the organization to help countries to find faster, more durable solutions to achieve Agenda 2030. Important development trends like urbanization, climate change, and rising inequalities pose significant challenges to achieve the 2030 agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNDP has begun incubating several strategic initiatives aimed at ensuring UNDP is ‘fit for purpose’ to deliver a new generation of solutions in line with the challenges the world faces. One such key strategic initiative is the Country Accelerator Lab Network. The initiative is a recognition that increasingly interrelated development challenges require going beyond “business as usual” and single point, linear and silver bullet responses in development. Instead, they call for interdisciplinary approaches and non-linear solutions that crowd in the collective efforts of a variety of partners and tap into local insights and the knowledge of people closest to the problem and the solutions.
The initiative is also a recognition and investment in the emerging momentum among a growing number of UNDP Country Offices to adopt disruptive, cutting edge methodologies with contextual, country-based insights and expertise to accelerate impact and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
As an upper-middle-income country, Thailand has advanced far beyond having many of the more basic development challenges affecting other nations. However, several challenges remain. Even in areas where Thailand has advanced and even become a model for other countries, improvements are possible. Those challenges are no longer best solved by conventional approaches and innovation is better suited.
Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic consequences highlight the irrelevance of traditional ways of formulating public policies and delivering public services that are not sufficiently agile, efficient and effective to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
In Thailand, for many years UNDP has been investing in exploring innovation by providing seed-funding to initiatives with the belief that innovation happens through practical explorations of new ways to address old development problems.
To accelerate innovation in public policy and services, UNDP and the Royal Thai Government through the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC) see an opportunity to accelerate innovation for policies and public services in Thailand and have entered in an agreement to establish a policy innovation platform “Thailand Policy Lab” or “TPLab” to connect and build capacities of various stakeholders in Thailand including government; academic; private sector; and citizen, to accelerate the impact of innovation in public policy and services in Thailand, and exchange knowledge and experience with other countries in the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
The Thailand Policy Lab (TPLab) will provide 3 core capacities to partners in Thailand as follow:
a. Exploration
b. Portfolio Options & Experiment
c. Learning
To implement various initiatives under the TPLab, UNDP is looking for a Policy Exploration Analyst. He/She will work closely with government agencies, civil society organizations, academia, NGOs and citizen and will report directly to Head of TPLab. He/she will work closely with the team of UNDP programme, operation teams in Thailand and NESDC.
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Horizon scanning and market intelligence
2. Partnership and resource mobilization
3. Organizational learning and interface with the core business of UNDP and NESDC
4. Working out loud
Competencies
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Innovation Ability to make new and useful ideas work |
Level 4: Adept with complex concepts and challenges convention purposefully |
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Leadership Ability to persuade others to follow |
Level 4: Generates commitment, excitement and excellence in others |
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People Management Ability to improve performance and satisfaction |
Level 4: Models independent thinking and action |
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Communication Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform |
Level 4: Synthesizes information to communicate independent analysis |
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Delivery Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement |
Level 4: Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or services |
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Technical/Functional |
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Job Knowledge and Technical Expertise In-depth knowledge of the subject matter |
Level 4: Apply & Adapt: Contributes skills and knowledge with demonstrated ability to advance innovation and continuous improvement, in professional area of expertise |
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Building Strategic Partnerships Ability to engage with other agencies, donors, and other development stakeholders and forge productive working relationships. |
Level 4: Apply & Adapt: Contributes skills and knowledge with demonstrated ability to advance innovation and continuous improvement, in professional area of expertise |
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Resource Mobilization Ability to provide inputs to resource mobilization strategies |
Level 4: Apply & Adapt: Contributes skills and knowledge with demonstrated ability to advance innovation and continuous improvement, in professional area of expertise |
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Knowledge Management Ability to capture, develop, share and effectively use information and knowledge |
Level 4: Apply & Adapt: Contributes skills and knowledge with demonstrated ability to advance innovation and continuous improvement, in professional area of expertise |
Required Skills and Experiences
Education:
Experience:
Language Requirements:
Applications to be submitted online at
https://jobs.partneragencies.net/erecruitjobs.html?JobOpeningId=33767
