Call for Consultants: Global Roster of Innovation & Development Experts

As part of our consultant roster, your contributions will vary by project and specialization. Typical roles and responsibilities include:

• Project Leadership or Technical Support: Serve as a project lead or subject-matter expert on assignments, providing strategic guidance and innovative solutions in your thematic area.
• Co-Design and Implementation: Work closely with Unbxnd team members and local partners to co-create project plans, adapt global best practices to local contexts, and implement solution prototypes or interventions.
• Partnership Engagement: Collaborate with a network of stakeholders (community organizations, government agencies, private sector partners, UN agencies, etc.) to ensure initiatives are inclusive and widely supported.
• Innovation Mapping: Identify and assess existing successful solutions or technologies that can be leveraged, and guide the localization and scaling of these solutions in the project context.
• Monitoring & Learning: Contribute to monitoring and evaluation of project outcomes, and share learnings and insights to inform broader practice and future initiatives.

This role creates positive change by leveraging existing successful solutions and adapting them to local contexts through partnerships, accelerating impact and improving lives across diverse communities by tackling complex development challenges in innovative ways.

• Experience: Minimum 5 years of professional experience in one or more of the thematic areas listed above, with a demonstrated focus on innovation or transformative approaches in that field.
• Education: Advanced degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. international development, social sciences, engineering, public policy, etc.)
• Proven Impact: Track record of contributing to successful projects or initiatives that introduced new approaches, technologies, or partnerships to achieve social impact.
• Collaboration Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with experience working in multi-disciplinary and multicultural teams. Ability to build partnerships and co-create solutions with diverse stakeholders is essential.
• Adaptive Mindset: Creative problem-solving abilities, comfort with ambiguity, and a willingness to challenge the status quo in order to drive better outcomes.
• Language: Fluency in English is required. Proficiency in other major languages (especially French, Spanish, or Arabic) is an asset.

No compensation, perks, or culture highlights mentioned in the job posting.

Unbxnd is an innovation-focused international development organization dedicated to doing things differently to achieve radically different outcomes for communities. Partnerships are at the core of their work, collaborating with NGOs, governments, and grassroots innovators to map proven solutions from around the world and localize and scale them in new contexts.