Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, November 01, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Head of Innovation Hub, Limited Fixed Term (LFT), P4, Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa (RBN)

DELIVERABLES:
• A high performing team that is delivering independently upon set workstreams.
• Innovation challenges launched on time and in full.
• New strategic partnerships in the pipeline for measuring systems-level impact.
• Recommendations on achieving portfolio growth and generating measurable impact.
• Successful country office buy-in and understanding of innovation.
• New pipeline of funding mapped out to execute new projects.
• Annual strategy and theory of change review based on lessons learnt across collective programming.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
• Education: Advanced university degree in business, innovation, design, technology or First university degree with additional years of related work experience and/or trainings/courses.

Experience:
• At least eight years of progressive responsible national or international experience in a startup, innovations function in private businesses or innovations in the humanitarian or international development sector.
• Solid experience working in a large-scale humanitarian or development organisation and in the startup or innovation world.
• Proven track record managing and growing teams

Knowledge & Skills:
• Passion and deep understanding of innovation
• Startup experience or intrapreneurial qualities; worked or led cross-functionally and get things done in a scrappy and hands-on way
• Proven track driving projects - effectively delivering impactful elements of projects in fast-moving environment, ideally for new businesses, new business models, startups
• Able to generate new and original solutions to complex problems and to design new products ideas
• Strong conceptual thinking to develop new strategies & innovative projects
• Able to interact with a broad range of stakeholders and external audience with maturity and tact
• Excellent communication/presentation skills, with the ability to write strategy documents, to develop business plans and to write and deliver presentations
• Collaborative spirit, able to partner with a wide range of people at all levels and across different cultures and to act with credibility and diplomacy
• Self-motivated and able to work with a high degree of autonomy
• Sets high-level of ambition for the project and own work to achieve impact for the hungry people we serve
• Fully committed and motivated to achieve the aims of the UN World Food Programme
• Able to hire and grow a team of professionals
• Languages: Fluency in oral and written English mandatory. An intermediate knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages) is desirable.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure

Interested and qualified? Go to World Food Programme (WFP) on career5.successfactors.eu to apply

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