Responsable de l'Exploration

Leads exploration for UNDP Madagascar’s Accelerator Lab, detecting development trends, risks and opportunities that can accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. The role combines horizon scanning, data analysis, systems thinking and partnerships to turn information into practical learning, experiments and policy solutions for communities and public institutions.

• Identify and communicate emerging development trends, data, technologies and systemic risks
• Analyze and visualize patterns in unstructured data and identify new information sources
• Explore emerging methods and knowledge and turn them into learning options for policy challenges
• Advise colleagues and partners on horizon scanning, foresight and data analysis
• Build partnerships to access anonymized data and enable real-time data analysis
• Design workshops, tools and platforms that mobilize collective intelligence
• Manage data and technology risks including ethics and privacy
• Share exploration results through knowledge events, blogs and the global Accelerator Lab network

• Master’s degree in social sciences, data science, statistics, physics, computer science, business intelligence or a related field with at least two years of relevant experience; or a bachelor’s degree with at least four years
• Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation
• Demonstrated horizon-scanning capability
• Demonstrated data-analysis and visualization capability
• Written and spoken French and Malagasy

• Experience with social-innovation approaches including systems thinking, ethnography, crowdsourcing or collective intelligence
• Experience using open, mobile, geospatial, drone, satellite or citizen data
• Experience in futures thinking, design research or systems mapping
• Knowledge of global and regional trends
• Access to networks of leading innovators
• Written and spoken English

• Horizon Scanning
• Systems Thinking
• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Social Innovation
• Partnership Development
• Strategic Foresight
• Research
• Knowledge Management
• Facilitation