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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...
Job Description
CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Issue Date: 25 September 2018
DURATION
1 Year
The focus of this position is to support Housing Unit, part of the Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch (HSUB), in the planning, development, management, promotion, coordination and implementation of normative and operational activities related to related to housing and slum upgrading in collaboration with other units, aligned with UN-HABITAT’s mandate, objectives, focus areas and expected results.
In particular, the incumbent is expected to assist the HSUB in implementing the Global Housing Strategy and strengthening the thematic areas of work on housing policy development, housing finance inclusion and housing affordability. The five main cross-cutting areas of work include: advocacy; knowledge management; policy advice; capacity development; and support for the implementation of operational activities – all to assist national and local governments in their efforts to improve access to adequate housing.
This consultancy will contribute to UN-Habitat’s activities on housing policy development, affordable housing and housing finance coordinated by the Housing Unit, Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch. UN-Habitat strives to mainstream a new holistic approach to housing finance by providing both normative frameworks for sustainable housing finance policies, practical guidelines on housing finance, and affordable human settlement as well as by testing these new approaches through various pilot schemes in developing countries
UN-Habitat’s areas of action in housing finance comprise normative and quantitative work namely policy advice and technical support to countries to developing housing finance sector strategies, advocacy and public awareness through documentation of case studies, elaboration of guidelines and best practices.
RESPONSIBILITES
Under the direct supervision of the Leader of the Housing Unit, the consultant will be responsible for the following duties:
DELIVERABLES
COMPETENCIES
QUALIFICATIONS
REPORTING
The consultant will report to the Leader of the Housing Unit. The consultant will work closely with Human Settlement Officers, Programme Management Officers, Branch and Regional Programme Managers, Programme Support Division and other units at the headquarters.
REMUNERATION
Payments will be based on deliverables over the consultancy period. There are set remuneration rates for consultancies. The rate is determined by functions performed and experience of the consultant. The fees will be paid in instalments upon completion and acceptance of the outputs.
Job Description
CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Issued on: 25 September 2018
ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-Habitat, Research and Capacity Development Branch in Nairobi, Global Urban Observatory, Kenya
DURATION: 3 months
BACKGROUND
UN- Habitat established the Global Urban Observatory (GUO) unit under the Research, Capacity Building and Development branch of UN-Habitat as a specialized statistical unit in charge of global monitoring of the Habitat Agenda and other agendas with an urban linkage. GUO is already responding with efficiency to the challenges that the monitoring and reporting of the NUA and SDGs requires. GUO has more than 20 years’ experience in the collection, analysis and production of urban data at the world level and in specific cities. GUO is working to a) Improve the capacity of countries and cities to access relevant information, setting global standards in the design analysis and collection of urban data, and supports the translation of data/information into policy formulation; b) Guiding methodological developments of the urban related indicators and targets used by the international development community to monitor global progress towards implementation of the New Urban Agenda and the SDG on human settlements; c) Improving worldwide urban knowledge base by supporting governments, local authorities and civil societies in the development and application of policy-oriented urban indicators, statistics and other urban information. These functions mainly served through the Cities Prosperity Initiative and the Global Urban Observatory Network (GUO net).
As part of this work, GUO has developed a number of technical documents including tools and guidelines to be used for capacity building workshops but also as guiding materials for various stakeholders that are involved in monitoring and reporting of SDGs and NUA in countries worldwide. These documents need to be translated in official working languages of the United Nations.
PURPOSE OF CONSULTANCY
The purpose of the consultancy is to translate available technical documents from English to French. The translated texts should be delivered in the font type of the original text, size 12, single spacing. **
TASKS
EDUCATION
Master’s degree in literature, translation and related field.
WORK EXPERIENCE
At least five years of relevance in translation of documents. Experience in translating documents for UN agencies is desirable.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluent in both English and French. Experience translating documents for UN agencies is desirable.
RENUMERATION
USD 70.00 per page of the translated text.
Applications should include:
All applications should be submitted to: (1) Mr. Dennis Mwaniki: email address: dennis.mwaniki@un.org and (2) Ms. Anne Idukitta: email address: anne.idukitta@un.org
Deadline for applications :2 October 2018
UN-HABITAT does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process. If you have any questions concerning persons or companies claiming to be recruiting on behalf of these offices and requesting the payment of a fee, please contact: recruitment@unon.org
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