Overview
This role serves as the operational backbone for the UNICEF Digital Inclusion team, focusing on developing strategic narratives, designing governance models, and managing the delivery platform to enable scaled execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Support leadership in translating priorities into a clear strategic narrative.
- Design and institutionalize a practical governance model for clarity, speed, and accountability.
- Own and evolve the Digital Inclusion delivery platform (ClickUp) for project execution and performance visibility.
- Design and implement a lightweight, scalable delivery framework for a matrix environment.
- Drive alignment and completion of SOPs through a structured consultation process.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience in a similar role.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering capacity-building interventions across management information and project management systems.
- Demonstrated experience in scalable program delivery processes and methods.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering organizational change and transformation leadership.
- Demonstrated project management system expertise and administration including data modelling, workflow design and implementation, API development, automations and user administration and training.
- Demonstrated experience coaching managers and building delivery capability within matrixed, cross-functional teams.
- Desired: Project management experience across diverse technical and non-technical domains and management of international, multi-cultural, cross-functional teams.
- Proven experience from diverse international and business organizations.
- Familiarity with and/or experience of the joint ITU/UNICEF Giga initiative.
Qualifications
- An advanced University degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in technology, engineering, finance, economics, or similar field is required.
- A first University degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced University degree.
- Project Management certification in one or more industry recognized practices (e.g., Prince 2, Agile, PMI) is required.
- Relevant qualification in the application of AI technologies and processes is desired.
