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Emerging and future digital technologies are one of the most profound drivers of change globally. Recognizing that these technologies bring both opportunities to accelerate progress in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals as well as presenting challenges to development, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been undergoing an organization-wide digital transformation since 2019. UNDP’s digital transformation seeks to help create a world in which digital is an empowering force for people and planet.
UNDP is the development arm of United Nations. Present in 170 countries with over 17,000 people, UNDP works on the world’s biggest challenges, from rising poverty and inequality to a rapidly changing climate, the emergence of crises and the continued degradation and destruction of our natural world. Our UNDP Digital Strategy 2022 – 2025 aims to support our partner countries to unlock the power of digital to tackle these pressing issues. The strategy lays out UNDP’s ambition to use a rights-based approach to digital technologies to improve our development results and help build inclusive digital ecosystems globally that leave no one behind. These aims are supported by the transformation of our internal, operational systems and building an agile, digitally capable workforce.
The Positioning and Engagement Specialist will provide expertise and direction to position UNDP in the digital development ecosystem. The role will also build strategic partnerships and lead CDO and UNDP’s engagement opportunities in the digital development space.
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Provide expertise and direction to position UNDP in the digital development ecosystem
- Contribute to the development of key emerging policy agendas in digital transformation and future of development contexts, in collaboration with policy teams at UNDP. Bring in perspectives and expertise from the Global South, via UNDP Country Offices and the Regional Bureaux as appropriate.
- Develop CDO narratives and points of view on important and emerging digital development issues.
- Ensure consistency of CDO messaging across knowledge products, events, public advocacy, media engagements, and communications.
- Support overall coherence of CDO strategic approach across teams.
- Identify opportunities for meaningful, impactful, and forward-looking positioning on important and emerging digital issues.
- Identify advocacy opportunities through which to embed CDO key messages to strengthen UNDP’s position among peers and stakeholders, including but not limited to global and regional events, international outlets, online platforms, etc.
- Engage with other teams at UNDP and UN partners to provide guidance and input to ensure CDO points of view are reflected.
- As necessary, conduct and manage primary and/or secondary research and distil relevant lessons from projects and programmes to inform policy formulation and guidance.
- Engage relevant partners on research or advocacy, hire and manage vendor and/or research partners as needed.
- Lead the process of knowledge capture international know-how in relevant thematic areas and document project lessons, experiences, and best practices that may be useful in design and implementation of similar projects for organizational and external sharing and learning.
- Work closely with the communications team within CDO to ensure coherence in external advocacy messages.
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