Innovation Specialist (Market Scoping), P-3, Systems & Services, Office of Innovation, Temporary Appointment (364 days), #00136398
Join UNICEF’s Office of Innovation as an Innovation Specialist (Market Scoping) and help connect the world’s most promising innovations to challenges facing children globally. Based in Stockholm, this role leads market intelligence and ecosystem scanning efforts, leveraging AI-en
Closing: 2026-03-15
Updated: 2026-03-03
Country: Sweden
Structured facts
Category: UN
Country: Sweden
Duty station: Headquarters|Sweden | Programme
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Grade: Not specified
Posted: 2026-02-27
Updated: 2026-03-03
Role overview
Join UNICEF’s Office of Innovation as an Innovation Specialist (Market Scoping) and help connect the world’s most promising innovations to challenges facing children globally. Based in Stockholm, this role leads market intelligence and ecosystem scanning efforts, leveraging AI-en
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
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For every child, the right to a Future
The Office of Innovation (OOI) works to catalyze UNICEF's and all its partners’ expertise and resources against key children-outcomes bottlenecks, with a view to continuously ideate and scale the most effective solutions with transformational potential at scale to achieve the child-related SDGs. The office is doing this by continuously exploring new ways of accelerating results for children, investing across a range of early stage solutions, and harnessing internal and external expertise towards continuously iterating and fine-tuning the most promising solutions for children through a systematic portfolio management approach, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation energy, knowhow and resources from intergovernmental, multilateral, private sector and non-governmental organizations. This takes place across 160 country offices.
How can you make a difference?
The Innovation Specialist (Market Scoping), under the general guidance and direction of the Innovation Manager (Insights), leads the development and execution of the Market Scoping function within UNICEF’s Office of Innovation (OoI). The post is responsibl