Climate Change and Environment Consultancy at UN-Habitat

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the overall supervision of the PFES, Programme Management Officer and Coordinator of the Urban Lab Mexico in coordination with the Hub of Mesoamerica office, ROLAC and PFES, the incumbent of the post will have to fulfill the following duties and responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise in climate change and urban resilience projects;
• Provide input and adapt urban planning methodologies and approaches to include climate change and urban resilience focus;
• Develop project proposals and research potential funding for climate change and urban resilience projects;
• Advice and implement participatory processes in the scope of climate change projects;
• Develop analysis, collection, interpretation and representation of data and spatial analysis;
• Produce desk and field research on topics related to climate change and urban resilience;
• Advise and develop materials for presentations, events, outreach, communications, capacity building sessions and workshops;
• Draft reports regarding the implementation of projects, including documentation, knowledge management, coordination, advocacy and outreach.

Qualifications/special skills
Education:

• Fist level university degree in fields related to architecture, urban planning, or similar is required.

Work Experience:

• At least 2 years of professional experience in the development and implementation of urban planning projects, in collaboration with multidisciplinary work teams is required
• Knowledge of the 2030 Agenda, the New Urban Agenda, Global Public Space Agenda and/or UN-Habitat language is an asset.

Languages

• Fluency in oral and written skills in Spanish and English and have the technical capacity to draft and review specialized reports and documents on climate change and urban resilience is required.