Urban Planner at UN-Habitat

Duties and Responsibilities:

Capacity Development and Institutional Assessment

• Support training needs assessments for relevant federal, regional, city and woreda authorities.
• Conduct institutional mapping and stakeholder assessments to identify planning and governance capacity gaps related to displacement management.
• Contribute to the preparation of training curricula and learning materials on durable solutions, area-based approaches and settlement management.
• Facilitate leadership training sessions and peer-learning activities, and document participant feedback and recommendations for follow-up support.

Settlement Planning and Durable Solutions

• Undertake settlement assessments and urban diagnostics to identify spatial development challenges, service gaps and the needs of displacement-affected communities
• Prepare settlement development and upgrading recommendations informed by assessment findings and stakeholder consultations.
• Support the integration of durable solutions principles into local development and spatial planning processes.
• Provide technical support to municipalities in applying displacement-responsive planning approaches.

Climate-Smart Planning and Spatial Analysis

• Support the collection, validation and analysis of GIS and other relevant data for settlement planning.
• Contribute to suitability and hazard mapping to inform planning and investment decisions.
• Analyse settlement growth trends, environmental risks and access to basic services.
• Prepare climate-resilient planning recommendations based on spatial analysis and assessment findings.

Land Governance and Tenure Security

• Contribute to housing, land and property assessments relevant to settlement planning and durable solutions
• Support the development of tenure security tools and local land governance systems relevant to the programme’s settlement planning interventions.
• Incorporate land governance and tenure security considerations into intervention site identification and prioritization.
• Provide technical support during stakeholder consultations and validation workshops.

Coordination, Reporting and Knowledge Management

• Liaise with regional bureaus, municipalities, land agencies and development partners to obtain technical inputs and coordinate activities related to the assignment.
• Prepare technical reports, consultation records and project documentation associated with the agreed deliverables.
• Provide monitoring, evaluation and reporting inputs on assigned activities.
• Document lessons learned and good practices to inform subsequent training and settlement planning interventions.

Qualifications/special skills

• A high school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Additional training in urban planning, regional planning, human settlements, territorial planning, urban development, architecture or a related field is desirable.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of relevant professional experience in urban planning, settlement development or a related field is required.
• The minimum years of relevant experience is reduced by two years for candidates who possess a first-level university degree.
• Experience using GIS and spatial planning tools for settlement assessments and analysis is required.
• Experience in displacement, refugee response, recovery or durable solutions programmes is desirable.
• Experience in capacity development, including preparing training materials and delivering training, is desirable.

Deadline : Sep 15, 2026