Cities and Climate Change Expert, International Cooperation at UN-Habitat

The consultancy will involve the following typical main duties leading to the ultimate requested outputs:    

Conference programme: 

• Co-develop the Innovate4Cities 2024 Conference programme for in-person and hybrid audiences, in collaboration with partners 
• Ensuring regional representation and relevance of conference speakers 
• Coordinate with UN-Habitat's senior management and regional office(s) to ensure alignment between the Innovate4Cities Conference and UN-Habitat's strategic priorities as well as to secure high-level global participation  Governance and stakeholder coordination:  
• Devise an engagement strategy (for participants) to attract a diverse range of stakeholders, including researchers, policymakers, industry representatives, NGOs, and community leaders. 
• Coordinate with the Conference Advisory Committee and conference partners  Stakeholder engagement and community development: Develop and implement a comprehensive stakeholder coordination plan to ensure seamless coordination among speakers, sponsors, and partners throughout the conference.  On-the-ground coordination 
• Coordination of Innovate4Cities conference in Montreal 
• Oversee the recording of all activities during the Innovate4Cities event.   

Knowledge product management:

• Coordinate a report which synthesizes key findings, identify priority areas for intervention, and outline concrete steps for strengthening collaboration between researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and other stakeholders. 
• Coordinate a short paper that synthesizes the findings of Innovate4Cities for the linkages for the upcoming IPCC Special Report on Cities and Climate Change   
• COP29: Ensure linkages between Innovate4Cities and COP29
• Prepare an engagement strategy to ensure that Innovate4Cities findings are linked to the third Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization and Climate Change
• Coordinate with UN-Habitat and other partners to link priority discussion points for the Ministerial Meeting 
• Draft proposal lining out the conceptualization of a cities and urbanization day at COP29, taking into consideration the findings and network of the Innovate4Cities conference and the upcoming IPCC on cities and climate change
• Organize side events that position the findings of Innovate4Cities at COP29 
• Coordinate mission report of UN-Habitat post-COP29 and ensure that learnings are being fed into institutional learning 
• Coordinate and draft post-COP29 UN-Habitat engagement report, building on a debriefing meeting

Qualifications/special skills

• Minimum advanced university degree (M.Sc. or equivalent) in business administration, management, environmental management, economics, international development or relevant field is required. 
• A first degree with 2 additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
• A minimum of five years of experience working in stakeholder engagement, community development and event organization, ideally gained at the international level is required of which working on climate change mitigation and/or adaptation issues. 
• Demonstrated experience in developing projects in a participatory manner is an added advantage.
• Demonstrated experience in coordinating research reports is desirable.
• Experience working with international multi-partner initiatives and projects, demonstrating experience delivering outcomes with diverse set of partners and governments on climate projects and climate/urban policy is desirable.

Deadline : Mar 12, 2024