Programme Management Officer, Human Settlements, P4

The Programme Management Officer provides normative and technical leadership on adequate housing, sustainable urbanization, and implementation of the New Urban Agenda across Latin America and the Caribbean. The role involves regional portfolio development, programme implementation, policy development, capacity building, and resource mobilization.

Responsibilities

• Provide normative and technical leadership on adequate housing, sustainable urbanization and implementation of the New Urban Agenda across countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• Promote the integration of adequate housing, basic services and informal settlements thematics into national policies in the region.
• Support the Secretariat of UN-Habitat to MINURVI (Forum of Ministers and High-Level Authorities on Housing and Urban Development in Latin America and the Caribbean).
• Lead regional/subregional portfolio development and implementation, with particular focus in the anglophone Caribbean subregion.
• Lead Programme development and preparation of proposals for global vertical funds.
• Supports connection of focus areas of UN-Habitat Strategic Plan with ROLAC strategic priorities.
• Supports and advises development, implementation and evaluations to programmes/projects, in the subregion; supports monitoring and analysis of programme/project development and implementation; supports reviews of relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; ensures follow-up actions.
• Fosters partnerships and collaboration with donors and other international agencies to mobilize resources for projects and programmes on adequate housing and sustainable urbanization in assigned subregion.
• Performs consulting assignments, in collaboration with the clients and counterparts, by planning facilitating workshops, through other interactive sessions and assisting in developing the action plan the client will use to manage the change.
• Provides technical and management advisory on human settlements analysis, needs assessments and other activities, participating in advisory missions to carry out high level consultations and other activities aimed at development of human settlements policies, strategies and programmes.
• Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
• Coordinates policy development, including the review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities and studies.
• Generates survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identify problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
• Organizes and prepares written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc.
• Provides capacity development support through documentation of knowledge management, tool development and facilitating networking with partners and programmes contributing to the enhancement of the policy dialogues at UN-Habitat and globally.
• Provides substantive backstopping to consultative and other meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc.
• Initiates and coordinates outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars, etc.; makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
• Leads and/or participates in large, complex field missions, including provision of guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties and drafting mission summaries, etc.
• Supports activities related to budget funding (programme/project preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements, etc.) and prepares related documents/reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget, etc.).
• 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.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Architecture, Civil Engineering Urban or Regional Planning, Political Science, Economics or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in adequate housing, human settlements (urban planning and management, human development initiatives, housing and slum upgrading, land and urban infrastructure) is required.
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience at the international level in stakeholder driven strategic planning and implementation processes is required.
• Experience working on governance, planning or policy related issues in the area of human settlements is required.
• Experience in planning, including strategic planning, and overseeing the implementation of the plans is desirable.
• Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
• English is required at UN Level II for reading, writing, listening and speaking.
• Spanish is required at UN Level II for reading, writing, listening and speaking.
• Portuguese is desirable at UN Level I for reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Skills

• Urban Planning
• Human Settlements Management
• Adequate Housing
• Strategic Planning
• Policy Development
• Programme Implementation
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Data Analytics
• Business Analytics
• Capacity Building
• Resource Mobilization
• Governance
• Urban Infrastructure
• Slum Upgrading
• Housing Development
• Regional Portfolio Development
• New Urban Agenda
• English Language
• Spanish Language

Languages

English, Spanish, Portuguese