Jobs at UN-Habitat

The consultant will undertake the following duties and responsibilities:

• Design the full design document for the online course on “Safer Cities and Human Security”. The design document will clearly present the target audience, learning objectives and structure of the course.
• Take stock and analyze the offering of existing online courses provided by other organizations in the thematic area to avoid duplication and suggest linkages to relevant content throughout the training where applicable.
• Design the online course: Prepare a complete script for the online course, with detailed structure and content descriptions of the various parts/modules. Individual modules may include text, images, interactive functionality, videos and/or interviews with the project team and partners involved in the implementation of the methodology.
• Configure in Articulate Rise the Introduction module of the online course. The rest of the online course will be configured at a later stage by UN-Habitat.

Qualifications/special skills

• A master's or advanced degree in instructional design, development studies, urban planning, international relations, pedagogics, communications, or related field is required.
• First degree with two additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
• A minimum of two years’ relevant professional experience in training and capacity development is required.
• Experience in the design of e-learning courses is required.
• Experience with designing training materials related to the development and sustainable development sector is an advantage.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy, fluency in oral and written English is required. Fluency in other UN languages is an added advantage.

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Under the direct supervision of the respective Programme Management Officer (PMO), He/she will perform the following specific tasks:

• Perform a wide range of office support and administrative functions including administrative support to the Regional Office for Africa (ROAf) and specifically Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome Principe, Cabo Verde, Comoros and Burkina Faso as the country portfolios are rapidly expanding.
• Creates and follows up on approval of new grants in UMOJA by feeding in the master data and checking on the validity of all billing values of existing/ongoing grants making requests for amendments where needed
•  Assists in the grants closure process through raising requests for grant extension, clearance of open items, raising adjustment requests and recording expenditure reports for all advances especially Implementing Partner advances.
• Assists with creation of budgets and WBSE's for new grants and carrying out budget clean ups for existing grants under the guidance of the respective PMO
• Follow up on clearance of legal documents including new agreements and amendments
• Reviews status of relevant expenditures and compares with approved budget
• Generates a variety of standard statistical and other reports from UMOJA ECC, BI and SRM modules
• Supports with grantor module actions as a programme assistant.
• Creates and monitors obligating documents e.g. shopping carts, Purchase Orders, Funds Commitments, travels for meeting participants etc.
• If and when required, travel in the represented countries to provide training and administrative support.
• Maintains files (both paper and electronic) and databases for the office.
• Ensures all project information is updated in the teams channels for the countries in his/her portfolio
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications/special skills

• High School Diploma and experience in Project Management, Administration, Finance, Economics or related field is required.
• Minimum 2 year of experience in programme or project administration, finance, project management or related area is required.

Languages

• Fluency in oral and written English.