Feb 4, UN Climate Smart Cities Consultant Bogota Jobs in Kenya

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UN Climate Smart Cities Consultant Bogota Jobs in Kenya

About UN-Habitat

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the UN agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all.

UN-Habitat’s Strategic Plan for the years 2020 – 2025 reinforces UN-Habitat’s position as the global centre of excellence on sustainable urban development, offering solutions that help seize the opportunities presented by urbanisation while bringing about transformational change for the benefit of millions of people, ensuring that no one and no place is left behind.

The Strategic Plan lays out a recalibrated vision and mission, and a sharpened focus. UN-Habitat proposes to serve Member States, sub-national and local governments, and other key urban actors in the pursuit of four mutually reinforcing and integrated domains of change:

  • Reduced poverty and spatial inequality in urban and rural communities.
  • Enhanced shared prosperity of cities and regions.
  • Strengthened climate action and improved urban environment; and
  • Effective urban crisis prevention and response

    Outcome 2.3 of the Strategic Plan is “expanded deployment of frontier technologies and innovations for urban development”. Frontier technologies are influencing the emergence of smart cities, how we build and manage our cities and human settlements, and how urban managers take more informed decisions.

    The New Urban Agenda calls for technology and communication networks to be strengthened and for smart city approaches that use digitalisation, clean energy, and technologies to boost economic growth and improve service delivery, while promoting broad-based inclusion, including of persons with disabilities.

    The consultant will support UN-Habitat’s work on the Climate Smart Cities Challenge in the Innovation Unit.

    The Innovation Unit

    The External Relations, Strategy, Knowledge, and Innovation (ERSKI) Division is responsible for strategic planning, programmatic direction and operationalization of UN-Habitat’s focal point role for the New Urban Agenda in the UN system; knowledge management; data and reporting; urban innovation; resource mobilization; and strategic partnerships.

    The Knowledge and Innovation Branch is responsible to generate data and analysis which feeds into high-level global reporting on substantive findings as well as identifying emerging innovations and solutions which are scalable, expanding and leveraging greater impact of the UN-Habitat work programme and strategy.

    The Innovation Unit is responsible for the following:

  • Promotes an innovation culture for improved sustainable urbanisation outcomes.
  • Acts as an enabler and broker for new ideas and partnerships for inclusive and at scale impacts.
  • Develops knowledge and tools to strengthen urban innovation and digital solutions to urban challenges.
  • Promotes innovation in project and programme design and implementation by providing advice to cities and stakeholders on unique tools, methodologies, technologies and partnerships.

    Climate Smart Cities Challenge

    Over the last years, UN-Habitat and Viable Cities, the Swedish national city innovation programme, have established a strong partnership of more than 15 public and private organizations working closely with selected partner cities. The Climate Smart Cities Challenge is an open innovation competition to identify climate smart solutions to reduce the climate impact of Bogotá, Colombia; Bristol, United Kingdom; Curitiba, Brazil; and Makindye Ssabagabo, Uganda, while creating a better future for all.

    The climate ambitions of these cities are impressive and addressing them through innovative solutions will have a powerful impact in shaping how city leaders, innovators and

    local communities respond to the climate emergency. The competition asked innovators – technologists, SMEs, start-ups, developers, finance experts and more – to submit their best ideas and solutions to one of the unique challenges identified by the four partner cities.

    UN-Habitat’s People-Centred Smart Cities Flagship Programme

    Flagship Programme 2 (FP2) focuses on people-centred smart cities to act as an umbrella and enabler for mainstreaming people-centred smart cities across all of UN-Habitat’s work. The objective of FP2 is to ensure that the smart cities field is focused on sustainable development outcomes that are aligned with human rights, so that no one and no space is left behind, and that cities actively reduce carbon emissions.

    Duties and Responsibilities

    Under the overall supervision of the Chief of Knowledge and Innovation Branch and the Programme Management Officer within Innovation Unit, the consultant will perform the following duties and responsibilities:

  • Contribute to orchestrating the system demonstrator, by collaborating with project partners, which may include:
  • Movement building – coordinating between city government, innovators and other stakeholders and building a shared vision and action plan
  • Systems understanding – providing and / or commissioning additional research to better understand the system dynamics
  • Delivery planning – supporting innovator teams and other stakeholders to act on the ground
  • Strategic learning – facilitating reflection learning sessions and socialising the findings
  • Contribute to mobilizing resources (fundraise) for subsequent phases of implementation and scaling of the system demonstrator
  • Contribute to written reporting for Bogotá, Colombia to validate progress and results
  • Participate in meetings, which includes developing and delivering appropriate presentations related to city challenges
  • Serve as the local focal point for the Climate Smart Cities Challenge in Bogotá, Colombia

    Qualifications/special skills

  • A bachelor degree in public policy and management, social sciences connected to the fields of creativity and innovation; international development, urban studies and related fields, or relevant work experience is required.
  • A minimum of four (4) years’ experiences of working in the field in research, data analytics, urban mobility, logistics, climate action, sustainable urban development in general relating to the same, and/or promoting sustainable mobility in particular is desirable.
  • Experience and knowledge of innovation processes and methodology, including challenge-driven innovation, design thinking, user research, product design and systems demonstrators is desirable.
  • Good general knowledge of the issues of sustainable development is desirable.
  • Experience on themes related to urban policy and development, public policy, social inclusion, open/digital government, innovation or open data is required.
  • Experience of policy communication, including writing policy briefs, reports and producing publications is desirable.

    Languages

  • English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; UN Climate Smart Cities Consultant Bogota Jobs in Kenya

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