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UNHABITAT - Project Coordinator SC9

Damascus

  • Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
  • Location: Damascus
  • Grade: Consultancy - SB-4 (SC8/SC9), Service Contract, Local Contractors Agreement
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Infrastructure and Urban-Rural development
    • Crisis Response
    • Crisis Prevention and RecoveryManagement
    • Project and Programme Management
    • Managerial positions
  • Closing Date: Closed

Background

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.

In October 2016, at the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development – Habitat III – member states signed the New Urban Agenda. This is an action-oriented document which sets global standards of achievement in sustainable urban development, rethinking the way we build, manage, and live in cities. Through drawing together cooperation with committed partners, relevant stakeholders, and urban actors, including at all levels of government as well as the private sector, UN-Habitat is applying its technical expertise, normative work and capacity development to implement the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goal 11 – to make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

Mandated by the UN General Assembly in 1978 to address the issues of urban growth, UN-Habitat is a knowledge institution on urban development processes and understands the aspirations of cities and their residents. For forty years, UN-Habitat has been working in human settlements throughout the world, focusing on building a brighter future for villages, towns, and cities of all sizes. Because of these four decades of extensive experience, from the highest levels of policy to a range of specific technical issues, UN-Habitat has gained unique and universally acknowledged expertise in all things urban. This has placed UN-Habitat in the best position to develop achievable solutions to the current challenges faced by our cities. UN-Habitat is capitalizing on its experience and position to work with partners to formulate urban visions of tomorrow. It strives to ensure that cities become affordable living spaces of inclusive economic growth and social development for all citizens.

Since 2015, UN-Habitat Syria Programme has worked closely with Syrian cities and communities to develop an urban resilience and recovery approach. UN Habitat supports local authorities and communities (1) to collect better urban data to reach a common understanding on urban recovery needs; (2) to jointly identify neighborhood and municipal area response priorities – from humanitarian, to resilience, to recovery; and (3) to design and implement housing, infrastructure and basic services, urban environment, and urban cultural heritage projects that directly respond to these local priorities.

UN-Habitat Syria currently has offices in Damascus, Homs and Aleppo and plans to open an office in Deir Azzor. The UN-Habitat Syria programme operationalizes projects across Syria.

Duties and Responsibilities

Urban Recovery Framework Project Manager:

  • Develop work plans for timely delivery of relevant project(s), in coordination with the UN-Habitat Chief Technical Adviser, Regional Urban Analyst and relevant UN-Habitat Syria units.
  • Oversight of UN-Habitat team, consultants and partner agency project deliverables, including:
  • Thematic Papers that provide a detailed understanding, tools and policy recommendations for topics necessary to support urban recovery in Syrian Cities;
  • Urban Recovery Framework Methodology Note that targets policy advocacy on urban recovery and durable solutions in Syria and the wider region;
  • Responsive and demand-driven situation reports (thematic, or location-based);
  • Digital tools and bottom-up planning leading to quick impact project that will support urban recovery;
  • Localized Needs and Damage Assessments;
  • Pilot Integrated Response Plans.
  • Support the organisation of workshops, training events and meetings (steering committees, project management units, technical working groups, etc.).
  • Conduct field visits and studies.
  • Engage in monitoring and evaluation, as well as the development of quarterly and annual progress reporting, other donor reports and documentation processes, etc.

Programme Development:

  • Together with relevant colleagues, contribute to the development of UN-Habitat Syria Programme Strategy.
  • Together with relevant colleagues, contribute to the development of UN-Habitat Syria Communications Strategy.
  • Obtain and/or prepare the necessary documentation required by UN-Habitat Syria programme, relevant institutional partners, donors and other stakeholders.
  • Propose measures to enhance the deliverables and efficiency of the profiling and urban analysis methodologies and responsiveness to relevant research and policy initiatives.
  • Assist the preparation of project concept notes / proposals for humanitarian and resilience programming.
  • Support the identification of local experts and expansion of UN-Habitat’s strategic partnerships with other organizations, including civil society organisations, think tanks, research institutes, etc.

Technical Support and Backstopping:

  • Contribute to the development of key lessons learning documents and policy advocacy notes.
  • Contribute to the dissemination process for key UN-Habitat Syria outputs.
  • Support assessments and workshops, training events and meetings at local and national level.
  • Undertake any other tasks contributing to the successful implementation of UN-Habitat Syria programme.

Competencies

Core:

Innovation:

  • Ability to make new and useful ideas work.

Leadership:

  • Ability to persuade others to follow.

People Management:

  • Ability to improve performance and satisfaction.

Communication:

  • Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform.

Delivery:

  • Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement.

 

 

Technical/Functional:

 

 

 

  • Management and Coordination.
  • Rehabilitation and Reintegration.
  • Project Management.
  • Urban Governance, Planning, and Development.

 

 

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • Master’s degree in urban planning, architecture, engineering or social sciences relevant to the respective project.
  • A first-level university degree in combination with 4 years of qualifying experience may be accepted.

Experience:

  • 2 years of relevant experience with a master’s degree or 4 years with a bachelor’s degree in urban planning and analysis demonstrating strong skills of project management and coordination. Previous experience in managing and supervising urban analysis projects is recommended.
  • Knowledge of various mapping and data analysis methodologies is desired.

Language Requirements:

  • Strong proficiency in written and spoken English and Arabic. Working knowledge of other UN language is desirable.

Disclaimer

Important applicant information

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