Background

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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, Aleppo and Deir Azzor. The UN-Habitat Syria programme operationalizes projects across Syria.

Duties and Responsibilities

Project cycle management

Oversee the day-to-day project implementation and ensure achievement of targets as outlined in the project document and the work plan; Develop annual and quarterly work plans and budget of the project; Work with internal and external stakeholders, constantly identify challenge, mitigate the risks and ensure smooth project implementation.

Management and Coordination

Build and maintain a good working relationship, and coordinate with external stakeholders (community, community leaders, authorities, civil societies, NGOs and other UN agencies) to maximize the impact of the project and for smooth implementation of the project; Work jointly with other units of the country programme for the smooth implementation of the project.

Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning (MERL)

Liaise with the project stakeholders to monitor the project progress, conduct the project evaluation against annual and quarterly work plans and budget plans; Prepare project progress reports (quarterly and annual) against set targets and indicators, with an analysis of the evidence of progress towards planned outputs according to schedules, budgets, and inputs provided by the project; Ensure regular documentation of innovations, good practices, lessons learned and an effective knowledge building, and compile success stories that have resulted in lasting, large-scale transformational change, if applicable.

Other related duties as required.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

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 Competencies:

Management and Coordination:

Apply & Adapt: Contributes skills and knowledge with demonstrated ability to advance innovation and continuous improvement, in professional area of expertise.

Rehabilitation and Reintegration:

Apply & Adapt: Contributes skills and knowledge with demonstrated ability to advance innovation and continuous improvement, in professional area of expertise.

Project Management:

Apply & Adapt: Contributes skills and knowledge with demonstrated ability to advance innovation and continuous improvement, in professional area of expertise.

Urban Governance, Planning and Development:

Apply & Adapt: Contributes skills and knowledge with demonstrated ability to advance innovation and continuous improvement, in professional area of expertise

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 2 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 in project or programme implementation in urban rehabilitation in Syria in the public or private sector is required; Experience in coordinating with humanitarian and development stakeholders is required; Strong skills in project management and coordination, and good technical report writing skill is required; Experience working with UN and/or international organizations is desirable; 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.

Other:

Non-Smoking environment

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