UN Urban Resilience and Partnerships Junior Consultant Jobs in Kenya
Result of Service
The overall objective of this project is to build more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient cities, by strengthening the capacity of key public, private and civil society stakeholders to measure, make decisions, plan and develop actions for building resilience to ensure that public and private investments are risk-informed and that early interventions in crisis-prone cities are linked to longer-term development goals in line with the actions of the New Urban Agenda.
This joint initiative aims at improving local government and stakeholder understanding of, and capacity for, developing and implementing resilience action plans.
Duties and Responsibilities
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the agency for human settlements mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities.
UN-Habitat helps the urban poor by transforming cities into safer and healthier places with better opportunities. It works with organizations at every level, including all spheres of government, civil society and the private sector.
As the main UN Agency responsible for ensuring the sustainable development of cities, towns, and other human settlements, UN-Habitat is strategically placed to coordinate the humanitarian and development efforts of multiple actors and policy makers at all levels in the common pursuit of urban resilience. UN-Habitat’s approach to strengthening urban resilience as a key determinant for ensuring the effectiveness of response interventions during times of crises, and subsequent sustainable development, is embodied in its City Resilience Global Programme (CRGP).
The CRGP goes beyond conventional approaches to ‘risk reduction’, delivering a forward- looking, multi- sectoral, multi-hazard, multi-stakeholder model for building resilience that recognizes the complexities and unique value of cities, and the inherent interdependencies of each part of an urban system. Fast growing cities and urban areas of the world are engines of growth and wealth accumulation.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the Head of the City Resilience Global Programme (CRGP), the consultant will provide substantive and strategic support to the Programme and will undertake the following task:
Supports in providing partnerships advisory services to the CRGP – Assists in managing institutional relations with several CRGP partners.
Assists in the drafting and follow-up on MOUs. Task 2: Supports CRGP’s upscaling of implementation in cities and regions – Supports in working on existing and new fundraising initiatives for implementing CRGP’s methodology in new cities and region.
Assists in preparing inputs and content for communication and advocacy products, tools and resources in support of the Programme’s objective.
Collaborates with CRGP technical team to elaborate and edit final substantive documents and outputs to strengthen the communication component, and supports in elaborating appropriate tools to communicate and inform on CRGP’s methodology. Task 3: Provide deliverables to position and strengthen the CRGP in global networks of cities and resilience actors
Participates and report on events and meetings with networks of global resilience actors with a focus on strategically positioning the CRGP.
Supports in providing advisory services to expand the positioning of CRGP within relevant global networks and platforms to identify and build strategic partnerships and synergies.
Makes recommendations to increase the efficiency and impact of CRGP approach in terms of process, approach and outputs.
Assists in delivering donor reports and proposes strategic approaches to positioning CRGP in partner- led events, networks and coalitions, to strengthen the presence of the CRGP
Gathers inputs from technical leads and beneficiaries to draft annual reports for donors and capture impact and outputs from projects.
Increased commitments to build local-level resilience from cities, territories and development partners.
Local resilience and investments measured in beneficiary cities.
Key issues and challenges identified in linking early interventions in crisis-prone cities to long-term sustainable development inputs.
Capacity is built in cities and local governments to develop and implement integrated local climate and disaster resilience action plans. 5. Crisis-prone cities have enhanced capacity to develop and implement plans to increase their resiliency.
Qualifications
A 1st level university degree in Social Studies, International Studies, Urban or Regional Planning, Architecture, Development Studies, or similar fields is required.
An advanced university degree is desirable.
A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience is required. Ability to work with minimal supervision and with good sense of initiative to keep the supervisor regularly informed of progress is required. Ability to work effectively under pressure is required.
Good communications, reporting and representation skills is required.
Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Office, spreadsheets and other software packages is desirable.
Good teamwork and drive for results is required.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; UN Urban Resilience and Partnerships Junior Consultant Jobs in Kenya
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