Head of Exploration

Job Information

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    Category East Africa Jobs
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    Posted On May 28 ,2020
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    Qualifications Bachelor's Degree
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    Employer Name The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Job Description

  • Identify, visualize and communicate emerging development trends, data, technologies and issues with a particular focus on the edges and “below the radar screen” events, opportunities and players, and systemically map their impacts on  economy, environment, society, and livelihoods of the poorest.
  • Identify new sources of evidence and insights, analyze and visualize patterns in unstructured sources of data, present new insights in accessible and comprehensive ways to enable sensemaking and analysis
  • Proactively explore and identify the new methods/approaches and frontier knowledge to tackle development challenges, collaborate with the Experimentation lead to turn these into learning options for addressing specific policy issues in the country
  • Provide technical guidance for horizon scanning, foresight and data analysis for colleagues and partners.
  • Contribute to the formulation of the Accelerator Lab service lines to the UNDP Country Programme based on findings from horizon scanning, systems’ mapping, and local knowledge