Local Urban Planning Consultant – Naryn, Kyrgyzstan at UN-Habitat

REPORTING AND COMMUNICATION

• The consultant will be hired under the overall supervision of the Head of the Urban Lab. The consultant will report to the Project Manager for Naryn in the Urban Lab according to the activities need. The consultant is expected to continuously liaise and coordinate with the Urban Lab, and a minimum of one follow-up calls a week will take place to discuss the activities development at the country level. The activities developed by the consultant, including meetings and communications with local stakeholders at the country and city level, will be discussed and agreed in advance with the Project Manager in the Urban Lab.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Under the overall supervision of the Chief of the Planning, Finance and Economy Section, the Urban Lab manager, in coordination with the UN-Habitat Regional Offices and in close collaboration with UN- Habitat thematic Sections, the incumbent of the post will have to fulfill the following duties and responsibilities:

• Provide technical support to the project team with stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Facilitate the communication between stakeholders and overcome potential linguistic barriers.
• Keep informed and communicate changes (in national, regional, and local regulation/planning) with the project team, that might impact the project activities and outputs.
• Provide technical support to city authorities with policy recommendations.
• Provide technical input to prepare sustainable urban plans.
• Provide technical support to the project team to collect accurate data from city authorities to be used in the preparation of urban plans.
• Advise and work with the Urban Lab team to analyse, collect, compile and interpret data to guide and inform the Naryn project;
• Provide technical expertise in urban design proposals for the Naryn project;
• Provide technical expertise for the urban design guidelines and building codes for Naryn. 
• Review project outputs and provide technical recommendations.
• Adapt and develop methodologies and approaches for sustainable urbanisation and resilience planning.
• Provide technical advice for the development of the capacity building activities and thematic learnings to build capacity of city authorities.
• Host multi-stakeholder workshops, including organization and moderation.
• Coordinate with project partners on participants attendance and arrangements of any logistical needs for engagement events like workshops, focus groups, exhibitions.
• Translate key documents in English and Kyrgyz.
• Safeguard the cross-cutting issues of the project that are considered in each project: Climate Change, Gender Equality, Human Rights, Youth, Children and Elderly Persons, and Disability. 
• Engage on other activities with the Urban Lab and the Planning, Finance and Economy Section if required.

Qualifications/special skills
Academic Qualifications/Education: 

• Minimum advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, Urban and Environmental Studies, or related field that is relevant for sustainable urban development is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two years qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Work Experience: 

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in all levels of urban planning and design with direct proven experience in drawing and preparing plan graphical material using computer assisted design tools is required.
• Strong writing and text editing skills in English required. 
• Experience working with government entities and/or international organizations will be an asset. 
• Good hand drawing / sketching of macro-scale plans is an advantage. 
• Experience in regional and territorial scale planning will be considered an advantage. 
• The candidate may present a portfolio of plans and designs of which he/she is the author.

Languages
Language skills: 

• For this consultancy, fluency in oral and written English and Kyrgyz is required. Knowledge of Russian language will be an asset.