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  • Posted: Dec 10, 2025
    Deadline: Dec 19, 2025
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  • 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. The Urban Economy Branch of UN-Habitat has the mandate to promote local capabilities of local go...
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    Urban Observatory and Data Systems Specialist

    Duties and responsibilities  

    • The consultant would work under the direct supervision of the project manager  and in close collaboration with the  Data and Analytics Unit (DAU). 

    He/She will perform the following duties and responsibilities  

    • Urban observatory framework Design and implement governance (steering committee, host institution, roles, MoUs/data‑sharing agreements) and obtain GUO‑Net certification.  
    • Institutionalize mission, vision, objectives, action plan, including observatory costing and resource mobilization strategies. 
    • Indicator development & data strategy Design a data collection and integration plan, ensuring disaggregation by gender, age, and spatial dimension.  Localize the UMF indicator matrix for GBM and define baselines, targets, disaggregation (sex, age, disability, location). Identify and define a core set of indicators aligned with land tenure security, market dynamics, spatial planning, gender equity, and informality and ensure alignments with the Global urban monitoring framework. 
    • Support setting up an online data portal with APIs, open‑data policy, and role‑based access; deploy interactive dashboards and map services. 
    • Data platform development and geospatial analysis Develop or coordinate development of an interactive, GIS-enabled dashboard. Integrate geospatial data with housing, economic, and planning datasets. 
    • Support application of geospatial analysis models such as hotspot mapping, land use change detection, proximity analysis, and spatial clustering to inform evidence-based decision-making. 
    • Produce geo-visualizations that support policy recommendations, market space allocation, and tenure interventions. 

    Capacity building & stakeholder engagement 

    • Design, Facilitate and deliver trainings (GIS, indicator production, dashboarding, data governance, data use in planning and policy.) for local government and WYITs. Facilitate multi‑stakeholder data collaboratives (government departments, academia, private sector, CSOs) and peer‑to‑peer learning. 
    • Monitoring, evaluation and reporting Develop and embed an M&E framework with KPIs for Observatory use on output and outcome monitoring. Produce monthly technical reports and a final implementation report on the data and analytics process. 
    • Produce an annual State of GBM report (progress toward SDG 11/NUA; policy options; investment priorities).

    Qualifications/special skills

    • Advanced degree in urban planning, geography, statistics, data science, social science or related field. 
    • A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
    • Minimum 5 years of experience in urban data systems, statistical observatories, or urban monitoring is required 
    • Proven track record in developing geospatial platforms, urban dashboards, and applying geospatial analysis models is required

    Languages

    • For the position advertised, fluency in English is required

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