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Issue Date: 29 May 2018
Deadline: 08 Jun 2018
Grade: Consultant

The Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch develops strategies, policies, and programmes to provide access to adequate housing for all, improve the living conditions in existing slums, and curb the growth of new slums. It focuses on improving the supply and affordability of serviced land and new housing opportunities, while also implementing city-wide and national slum upgrading programmes to improve housing and quality of living conditions of the poor.

Issue Date: 29 May 2018
Deadline: 06 Jun 2018
Grade: Consultant
Duty Station: Nairobi

Within limits of delegated authority, the HR Consultant at this level will be responsible for the following duties:

Issue Date: 24 May 2018
Deadline: 31 May 2018

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                               Issued on: 23 May 2018

ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION

UN-Habitat, Somalia Programme

DUTY STATION

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Issue Date: 08 May 2018
Deadline: 18 May 2018
Grade: Consultant

CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Issue Date: 8th May 2018

ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION:

UN-HABITAT

DUTY STATION:

Nairobi, Kenya

FUNCTIONAL TITLE:

Consultant ( 3 positions)

DURATION:

01 June 2018 – 31 December 2018 (7 months)

 

BACKGROUND

 

Issue Date: 27 Apr 2018
Deadline: 10 May 2018
Grade: P4
Duty Station: Nairobi

This position is located in the Risk Reduction and Rehabilitation Branch. Reporting directly to the Settlements Recovery Unit Head, with the Risk Reduction Rehabilitation Branch Coordinator as the second reporting officer. The focus of these jobs is to lead the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes, operations and other activities in an assigned functional area: Specifically, supporting UN-Habitat's engagement in shelter and settlement recovery programmes in crisis and post crisis contexts.

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Issue Date: 03 May 2018
Deadline: 03 May 2018
Grade: Consultant
Duty Station: Nairobi

The focus of this position is to contribute to support the UN-Habitat Housing Unit, Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch (HSUB) in the planning, development, management, promotion, coordination and implementation of normative and operational activities related to housing finance and housing policy. The incumbent is expected to assist the HSUB in implementing the Global Housing Strategy and strengthening the thematic areas of work on housing finance inclusion, housing affordability and will undertake work related to the green housing portfolio – all to assist national and local authorities in... Read more

Issue Date: 12 Apr 2018
Deadline: 19 Apr 2018
Grade: Consultant

The Human Rights Mainstreaming Coordination Team is tasked with ensuring that human rights are considered, i.e. mainstreamed, in all of UN-Habitat’s projects and activities. This means that they provide inputs to colleagues that can be used in their work, review project documents and publications to ensure they take into account a human rights perspective, and conduct trainings and capacity building for colleagues to deepen their knowledge about human rights in cities relevant to the work that they are doing. In this way, the team works with all UN-Habitat’s branches and thematic areas.... Read more

Issue Date: 12 Apr 2018
Deadline: 19 Apr 2018
Grade: Consultant
Duty Station: Nairobi

The Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch develops strategies, policies, and programmes to provide access to adequate housing for all, improve the living conditions in existing slums, and curb the growth of new slums. It focuses on improving the supply and affordability of serviced land and new housing opportunities, while also implementing city-wide and national slum upgrading programmes to improve housing and quality of living conditions of the poor.

Issue Date: 10 Apr 2018
Deadline: 08 May 2018

    

Issue Date: 06 Apr 2018
Deadline: 11 Apr 2018
Grade: Consultant

The UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery for Somalia (JPLG) has established an important platform for seizing the development moment and is also a programme that has translated many of the ambitions of the ‘One UN’ principles into tangible improvements in aid and wider development effectiveness.

Issue Date: 19 Mar 2018
Deadline: 21 Mar 2018
Grade: Consultant

Several regions of Somalia, and the country, as a whole, other regions of Somalia, have been attempting to respond and adapt to the devastating effects of a twenty-year long conflict, and the compounding ramifications that insecurity, natural disasters, droughts and famines have had over public administrations, institutions, social fabric, urban economy and infrastructure. Restored security in cities and major administrative centres, has made it possible to undertake significant legislative support work, looking at multiple issues such as land tenure security, local governance and urban... Read more

Issue Date: 15 Mar 2018
Deadline: 22 Mar 2018
Grade: Consultant
Duty Station: Nairobi

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 governments to develop financial instruments to keep pace with the demands of rapid urbanization. The Urban Economy Branch has the mandate to promote plans and provide support for more efficient, socially inclusive, better integrated and... Read more

Issue Date: 14 Mar 2018
Deadline: 21 Mar 2018
Grade: Consultant

The project contributes directly to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 11 ‘Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’, specifically targets 11.5 and 11.b, and builds on the achievements of the Hyogo Framework for Action – Building the Resilience of Nations 2005-2015, and paves the way toward the implementation of the Sendai Framework for DRR 2015-2013 at the local level, and the recently adopted New Urban Agenda.

Issue Date: 27 Feb 2018
Deadline: 07 Mar 2018
Grade: Consultant

The Urban Basic Services Branch (UBSB) of UN-Habitat aims at increasing equitable access to urban basic services which comprise water, sanitation, solid waste management, mobility and energy. The Branch consists of four programmatic units, namely: i) Water and Sanitation, ii) Urban Waste Management; iii) Urban Mobility and iv) Urban Energy. These programmatic units promote initiatives aimed at strengthening policies and institutional capacities and frameworks for increasing equitable access to urban basic infrastructure and services and improving the standard of living of the urban poor.... Read more

Issue Date: 27 Feb 2018
Deadline: 13 Feb 2018
Grade: Consultant

UN-Habitat has been active in the Somalia urban sector for more than 20 years and currently is implementing a portfolio of interventions worth USD 50 million with communities, local authorities and central government. The activities have evolved from responding to immediate local needs for reconstruction to systematic attempts to address sustainable urban development through integrated human settlement programmes. Somalia is faced with one of the highest urbanization rates across Africa and beyond, and there is a strong link between urbanization and displacement caused by natural disasters... Read more

Issue Date: 20 Feb 2018
Deadline: 26 Feb 2018
Post Duration: 6 Months
Grade: Consultant
Duty Station: Nairobi

UN-Habitat has been active in the Somalia urban sector for more than 25 years and is currently implementing a portfolio of interventions that target communities, local authorities and central government at the core of urban centres. These interventions have evolved from responding to immediate local needs for reconstruction to systematic attempts to address sustainable urban development through integrated human settlement programmes and beyond through interventions that strengthen the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding nexus in the areas of livelihoods, youth engagement,... Read more

Issue Date: 13 Feb 2018
Deadline: 23 Feb 2018
Grade: GS-4
Duty Station: Nairobi

UN-Habitat Archives and Records Management Programme ensures proper record keeping system and archiving of documents to support institutional memory and encourage organization learning, with the major objective of ensuring timely provision of information to support decision making.

Issue Date: 08 Feb 2018
Deadline: 19 Feb 2018
Duty Station: Kabul, Afghanistan)

The Citizens’ Charter Afghanistan Program (CCAP) is a Government Program that aims to provide basic services to all citizens of Afghanistan over the next 10 years. The Government will provide the resources and support to construct or rehabilitate infrastructure and provide the most important services – drinking water, health, education, electricity, water systems and roads. CCAP is a national program, implemented by Deputy Ministry for Municipalities (DMM), Kabul Municipality, and other municipalities financed through on-budget mechanisms. UN-Habitat Afghanistan will support and oversee... Read more

Issue Date: 01 Feb 2018
Deadline: 08 Feb 2018
Grade: Consultant

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. The UN-Habitat Somalia Programme is seeking the support of a qualified Junior Planner to support and coordinate the implementation of a newly established set of displacement programmes funded by the European Union, the Peacebuilding Fund, the Human Security Trust Fund, and the Government of Sweden.

Issue Date: 31 Jan 2018
Deadline: 01 Feb 2018
Post Duration: 6 Months
Grade: Consultant
Duty Station: Nairobi,Kenya

BACKGROUND

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.  The UN-Habitat Somalia Programme is seeking the support of a qualified Junior Planner to support and coordinate the implementation of a newly established set of displacement programmes funded by the European Union, the Peacebuilding Fund, the Human Security Trust Fund, and the... Read more

Issue Date: 26 Jan 2018
Deadline: 02 Feb 2018
Grade: Consultant

The Evaluation of the World Urban Forum is in accordance with the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation (PPBME) – ST/SGB/2000/8. All previous World Urban Forum (WUF) sessions have been assessed since the 1st session that took place in 2002.

Issue Date: 25 Jan 2018
Deadline: 25 Jan 2018
Grade: Consultant
Duty Station: Nairobi

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all. For close to forty years, UN-Habitat has been working in human settlements throughout the world, focusing on building a brighter future for villages, towns, and cities of all sizes. This has placed UN-Habitat in the best position to provide answers and achievable solutions to the current challenges faced by cities. UN-Habitat is capitalizing on its experience and... Read more

Issue Date: 17 Jan 2018
Deadline: 23 Jan 2018
Grade: Consultant

UN-Habitat Somalia is implementing the Federal Government of Somalia – United Nations Joint Programme on Youth Employment together with UNDP, FAO and ILO under the Peace and State Building Goal 4 “Economic Foundations”. The joint programme targets three outcomes:

Issue Date: 17 Jan 2018
Deadline: 31 Mar 2018
Grade: Consultant

The New Urban Agenda acknowledges that housing finance is a pre-requisite for sustainable and inclusive cities and needs to be promoted as a strategic area of intervention to guarantee the progressive realization of the right to adequate housing.

Issue Date: 18 Dec 2017
Deadline: 18 Dec 2017
Duty Station: Riyadh

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is currently running a four years program of cooperation with UN-Habitat in order to revitalise the urban planning system and the cope with the new urban agenda that was approved last October in 2016. The program will serve as well the new Vision of the Kingdom “Vision 2030” and its respective programs including the municipal reform program. The program is reviving national regional and city levels reforms where 17 cities were selected to illustrate the reform elements. As part of the FSCP, this revitalisation will be in a form of an integrated profile for every... Read more

Issue Date: 11 Dec 2017
Deadline: 31 Dec 2017
Grade: Consultant

The Ministry of Urban Development and Housing (MUDH) is entrusted with providing access to housing for all Afghan citizens and in doing so support the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GoIRA) in its endeavour to enhance the quality of life of its citizens. Through strategic partnerships, both within the financial and construction sectors, MUDH is building the foundation for a sustainable social housing system that is designed to not only meet the needs of Afghanistan’s fast-growing population, but also support the country’s future economic growth and prosperity.

Issue Date: 11 Dec 2017
Deadline: 19 Dec 2017
Grade: Consultant

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the agency for human settlements, mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities and adequate shelter for all. This consultancy is located in UN-Habitat’s Urban Planning and Design Branch (UPDB). The UPDB supports national and sub-national governments, local authorities and civil society partners with tested approaches, guidelines, and tools to plan the growth of cities in an inclusive, sustainable, and future-proof way, in tune with social, cultural, economic, and... Read more

Issue Date: 11 Dec 2017
Deadline: 19 Dec 2017

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities and improve access to adequate housing for all. It is the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system. The agency is to support national and local governments in laying the foundation for sustainable urban development.

Issue Date: 11 Dec 2017
Deadline: 18 Dec 2017
Grade: Consultant

The Global Network for Sustainable Housing (GNSH)

The GNSH is an international partnership linking practitioners, academics and organizations that are leading the policy development, research and design for environmentally, economically, socially and culturally sustainable housing. Through the partnership, GNSH members share experience and expertise, and develop strategies that promote affordable and sustainable housing practices in developing and transitional countries and cities.

Issue Date: 03 Dec 2017
Deadline: 08 Dec 2017

UN-Habitat Kakuma office requires the services of a Driver, to support in the coordination and implementation of “Kalobeyei Integrated Socio-Economic Development Programme, Turkana County, Kenya”.