Consultancy, AI strategy development, 4 months , Remote
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Job no: 540273
Contract type: Consultancy
Level: Consultancy
Location: United States
Categories: Consultancy
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, innovate
UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the startup thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.
UNICEF’s Office of Innovation creates opportunities for the world’s children by focusing on where new markets can meet their vital needs. We do this by:
● Connecting youth communities (or more broadly — anyone disconnected or under-served) to decision-makers, and to each other, to deliver informed, relevant and sustained programmes that build better, stronger futures for children.
● Provoking change for children through an entrepreneurial approach — in a traditionally risk-averse field — to harness rapidly moving innovations and apply them to serve the needs of all children.
● Creating new models of partnership that leverage core business values across the public, private and academic sectors in order to deliver fast, and lasting results for children.
The Office of Innovation specifically looks to form partnerships around frontier technologies (like drones and UAVs, blockchain, 21st century skills, urban technologies, new banking tools, wearables and sensors, or 3D-Printing) that exist at the intersection of $100 billion business markets and 1 billion person needs – and to identify how they can grow and scale profitably and inclusively.
Our team
We’re an interdisciplinary team around the world tasked with identifying, prototyping, and scaling new technologies and practices. With our partners, we focus on convening and collaborating on new and different solutions, low- and high-tech, by:
● Looking at the 2-5 year horizon to evaluate emerging and trending technologies and to see how UNICEF can work with the private sector on doing better business while improving essential services for children;
● Investing in early stage solutions that show great potential to positively impact children in the 0-2 year future including the Venture Fund that invests in open source technology solutions from start-ups based in UNICEF’s programme countries;
● Identifying proven solutions that can be implemented at national scale in multiple countries – taking the ideas that help thousands in one country, bringing them to dozens of countries across multiple sectors, and impacting the lives of millions of children.”
How can you make a difference?
UNICEF Ventures is seeking a consultant to facilitate the development of an organisational strategy on AI for UNICEF, coordinating consultation processes across relevant divisions and with external stakeholders, documenting past experience, industry trends and drafting a document for review and decision.
Main responsibilities will be:
· Conduct key informant interviews with relevant internal and select external stakeholders
· Document and capture UNICEF’s past and ongoing engagement in AI
· Capture and summarise key external trends to inform internal deliberations
· Draft a strategy document for feedback and finalise draft based on said feedback.
Key components of the strategy would cover (to be further refined with consultant and working group):
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current status of AI engagement at UNICEF;
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key trends in technology, relevant industry and sectors, and applications in UNICEF strategic priority areas;
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objectives for UNICEF engagement for next strategic framework period;
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high level action to achieve these objectives.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
A degree in relevant field (Public Policy, Business or Public Administration, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related areas) or equivalent professional experience
● At least 5 years’ experience in strategy development, project management, stakeholder management, consultation processes or other relevant areas
● Demonstrated understanding of AI and data science, trends in industry, key players and practical applications
● Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills
● Proven experience in translating complex ideas from various fields into unified, clear guidance.
● Superior project management skills for managing tasks and dependencies
● Proven capacity to work with teams across different locations and with different technical skills.
● Familiarity with open source technology
● Fluency in English is required.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.
To view our competency framework, please visit here.
Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Payment details and further considerations
● Payment upon completion of deliverables
● Consultant is responsible for his/her own health and travel insurance
● Consultant is eligible for standard DSA for all work-related travel
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.
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