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| Senior Advisor on Foresight in Public Service |
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| Procurement Process : | IC - Individual contractor |
| Office : | UNDP GCPSE, Singapore - MALAYSIA |
| Deadline : | 11-Aug-14 | | Posted on : | 30-Jul-14 |
| Development Area : | SERVICES  |
| Reference Number : | 17053 |
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Annexes
Terms of Reference
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| Overview : The UNDP Global Centre for Public Service Excellence (GCPSE) seeks to recruit an advisor on foresight to support its function as an evidence and convening hub. The aim of the assignment is to enable the Centre to deliver on the UNDP Administrator’s visionary commitment that the GCPSE should become a global leader in supporting the institutionalisation of foresight in public service, and applying it in the relevant fields of international development.
The GCPSE aspires to promote the capacity of public service to better navigate uncertainty, complexity and change. The application of foresight can foster a greater responsiveness to shocks, greater agility when sudden challenges and opportunities arise, and increase the propensity of public service to adapt and change.
As a way of thinking, foresight encourages innovation, strategic evaluation and the proactive shaping of the future, which is critical for developing countries facing a very uncertain future, shaped by urbanization, technological developments, political instability, climate change and other “wicked” problems. The aim is to help find alternatives to traditional planning and national visioning approaches, in order to build more resilient futures.
Applications include the consideration of possible, probable and desired futures that can support visioning processes, strategic foresight with links to long-term planning and other areas of application that contribute to the above mentioned intent. It can be argued that developing countries have a greater need for foresight as they are undergoing intense change processes in environments of great uncertainty. Strengthening the capacity of public administration systems to appreciate, apply and mainstream foresighting in strategic and policy planning processes, would thereby contribute to an innovative but home-grown planning approach.
Such institutions strengthening would involve capacity development and change management processes within existing public administration structures, with the creation of hybrids that integrate foresight and more traditional bureaucratic planning processes.
Share futures are negotiated though inclusive processes, such as whole of government and whole-of-society approaches as knowledge of “things to come”, experiences and problem solving abilities are distributed widely within societies and institutions.
To apply, please visit http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=47986
For clarification, please email to procurement.my@undp.org. The reference number is MyIC_2014_045. |
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