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  • Posted: May 10, 2022
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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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    Team Assistant

    Responsibilities

    The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, (UN-Habitat), is the United Nations agency for Human Settlements. It is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. As the United Nations focal point on human settlements, UN-Habitat will lead advocacy efforts to raise awareness of sustainable urbanization issues; provide evidence-based policy advice; build capacities; develop tools, norms and standards based on best practices; work on demonstration projects and provide assistance to national Governments, local authorities and other public institutions responsible for urban issues.

    Under the overall guidance of the Chief, Human Resources and Training Unit, the team assistant will perform the following duties:

    • Provides general office support services to help ensure the smooth functioning of an organizational unit.
    • Uses standard word processing package to produce a variety of routine correspondence, reports, tables, charts, graphs, etc., in accordance with institutional standards.
    • Proofreads written products for completeness and grammatical and typographical accuracy.
    • Maintains calendar/schedules; monitors changes and communicates relevant information to appropriate staff inside and outside the immediate work unit.
    • Reviews, records, routes and/or processes mail or other documents; gathers pertinent background material; tracks and monitors follow-up action as required.
    • Receives phone call and visitors, and responds to routine inquiries and information requests, including drafting routine written responses, or routes to appropriate personnel for handling as required.
    • Maintains files (both paper and electronic) and databases for work unit.
    • Updates and maintains large distribution lists; assemble documents, reports and other materials for global dissemination, where possible using electronic formats; coordinates courier services.
    • Performs basic data entry and extraction functions.
    • Checks accuracy of simple calculations, codings, data, etc.
    • Performs a variety of administrative duties (e.g. leave recording, meeting organization, reservations, office supply and equipment orders, etc.), including preparing and/or processing administrative requests/documents (e.g. travel requests, expense claims, vouchers, visa applications, etc.).
    • Photocopies a variety of documents and other materials.
    • Operates and maintains a variety of office equipment in the performance of basic office functions, e.g. photocopier, facsimile, printer, scanner, etc.

    Qualifications/special skills

    • Academic Qualifications: High school diploma or equivalent is required.
    • A bachelors degree is an added advantage.
    • Experience: A minimum of 2 years experience in general office support or administration area is required.
    • Experience in the UN and other related organizations is desirable.

    Language: English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required

    Deadline: 17 May 2022

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    Land Policy and Programme Development Expert

    Responsibilities

    The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the United Nations 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. As the United Nations focal point on human settlements, UN-Habitat will lead advocacy efforts to raise awareness of sustainable urbanization issues; provide evidence-based policy advice; build capacities; develop tools, norms and standards based on best practices; work on demonstration projects and aid national Governments, local authorities and other public institutions responsible for urban issues. To enable it to respond to the challenges and opportunities of 21st Century cities and human settlement in a more holistic way, and to address one of the most significant areas of need in developing countries; UNHabitat has adopted a more strategic and integrated approach that is more systematic, going beyond addressing only the symptoms of malfunctioning urbanization. It is integrated, rather than sectorial, transformative rather than fragmentary and links urbanization and human settlements to sustainable development by focusing on prosperity, livelihoods and employment.

    The vacancy is in the Regional Office of Africa, Somalia Programme.

    This project was designed to implement recommendations of the Scoping Study on Land and Conflict in the Horn of Africa, which identified the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) as the most appropriate strategic partner for interventions under Pillar Four of the Comprehensive Regional Prevention Strategy for the Horn of Africa to contribute to improvement of responsible land governance and enhance inclusive, equitable and sustainable development in the region. It will support IGAD, its Member States and other development actors in the region to implement regional level interventions to address land governance challenges and resolve land-related root causes of conflict.

    The project addresses a critical challenge that bedevils all the countries of the Horn of Africa, renders livelihoods insecure and undermines prospects for sustainable development, collective security and peace. The project seeks to implement recommendations of the scoping study by providing support to strengthen the capacity of IGAD and the Member States collectively and individually to manage the land-conflict-climate change-development nexus and thereby secure responsible and inclusive land governance, efficient and effective resolution of land-based conflicts, sustainable management of the environment and promotion of climate security. In doing this, the project will be contributing directly to achievement of the objectives of the Comprehensive Regional Prevention Strategy.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    Under the overall supervision of the UN-Habitat's Senior Humans Settlements Officer and in consultation with FAO representative, the consultant will be responsible for the following tasks:

    • Provide strategic input to discussions between pillar 4 agencies and IGAD secretariat in Djibouti;
    • Developing the Partnership Framework including concept note between the pillar 4 Agencies and IGAD Secretariat, IGAD Land Governance Unit, ICPALD and IGAD Water Unit.;
    • Provide strategic input towards the regional consultations on land and conflict in the Horn of Africa
    • Preparing reports on consultation and developing concept note on the root causes of conflict Horn of Africa.
    • Working with the Land Governance Unit to facilitate a capacity needs assessment of IGAD Land Governance Unit and developing proposal for resource mobilization;
    • Preparing assessments of cross border conflicts in the Horn of Africa, reviewing report, organizing stakeholder's consultation and preparing report thereon
    • Developing concept note and Proposal to mobilize resources to follow up the recommendations of assessment.

    Qualifications/special skills

    • Academic Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Public Policy and Administration or any other related fields is required.
    • Experience: Minimum of 5years' experience in project development, policy research, assessments of International Organizations and providing high quality technical and advisory role in areas of resource mobilization, partnership frameworks and reporting is required
    • Experience in assessing the sustainable development situations with special emphasis on land governance challenges and land-related root causes of conflict within the Horn of Africa. Experience in developing projects in land governance context is highly desirable.

    Language: Fluency in both oral and written English is required.

    Deadline: 24 May 2022

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