UNITAC - Hamburg is looking for a Project Management Officer (P3) to coordinate and manage the project “Just transitions in vulnerable places - digital solutions for more climate resilient informal areas and climate smart urban recovery of communities affected by crisis” in Ukraine and Namibia.
Deadline to apply: December 25th, 2023
Full job description with details here: https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/219010?language=en
Responsibilities, among others, include:
- Project Management - Manages the project “Just transitions in vulnerable places - digital solutions for more climate resilient informal areas and climate smart urban recovery of communities affected by crisis”
- Technical cooperation - Carries out research in the substantive area of the project intervention, provides advice and guidance to team members, and keeps them abreast of relevant developments and project-relevant impediments.
- Stakeholder coordination - Provides substantive support to consultative and other meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc.
- Performs other related duties as required, including a variety of administrative tasks necessary for the final delivery of the project outputs.
- Learns on-the-job and provides guidance and support to colleagues.
- Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
Qualifications
- A minimum of five (5) years of substantive professional experience, including 2 years at the international level, in urban planning and design and/or academic teaching and research on the subject, preferably gained in various continents is required.
- Experience in working in large multi cultural environments is desirable.
- Experience in human settlements development fields, technology innovation and digital transformation, project design and implementation with the United Nations or other International Agencies is desirable.
- Experience with UN policies, procedures and practices or similar international organization is desirable.
- Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
The position is located in the United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities, which is part of the Knowledge and Innovation Branch of the External Relations, Strategy, Knowledge and Innovation Division (ERSKI) of UN-Habitat headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.