UN-HABITAT Project Manager – Individual Contractor Jobs in Kenya

UN-HABITAT Project Manager – Individual Contractor Jobs in Kenya

About UN-Habitat

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the lead United Nations agency for cities and human settlements. The agency 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 and sustainable development.

The main documents outlining the mandate of the organization are the Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements, the Habitat Agenda, the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlements, the Declaration on Cities and Other Human Settlements in the New Millennium, and UN General Assembly Resolution A/56/206.

UN-Habitat, being the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system, has a role in delivering the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, adopted by Member States in 2015, specifically goal 11: make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

As our cities and towns grow at unprecedented rates, setting the social, political, cultural and environmental trends of the world, sustainable urbanization is one of the most pressing challenges for the global community in the 21st century. In 1950, one-third of the world’s population lived in cities. Just 50 years later, this proportion has risen to one-half and will continue to grow to two-thirds, or six billion people, by 2050. Cities are now home to half of humankind.

They are the hub for national production and consumption - economic processes that generate wealth and opportunity. But they also create disease, crime, pollution and poverty. In many cities, especially in developing countries, slum dwellers number more than 50% of the population and have little or no access to shelter, water and sanitation.

About the United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities (UNITAC)

The United Nations Innovation Technology Accelerator for Cities is an innovation lab in Hamburg, established in March 2021 through a collaboration between UN-Habitat, the UN Office for Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT) and HafenCity University.

The Accelerator promotes open and participatory governance of data and digital platforms, innovations related to mapping, spatial analysis and data visualization and people-centered smart cities. UNITAC Hamburg is funded by the Government of Germany for four years.

The Accelerator is creating a team of urban, technology and innovation experts which will develop technologies to solve the world’s most pressing urban challenges and ensure that we speed up progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 11 on sustainable cities and communities. UNITAC Hamburg will work with a bespoke urban technology innovation acceleration methodology that can be used to analyse real urban challenges and urbanization trends.

The methodology will be based around three themes: (1) Open, transparent and participatory governance of data and digital platforms (2) Mapping spatial analysis and visualization, and (3) People-centred smart cities. Within these fields, particular emphasis will be placed on how to generate knowledge and use cases on smart city governance and the development of frontier technologies with a special emphasis on developing countries and cities with large informal populations.

The solutions developed by UNITAC Hamburg will be tested and piloted through UN-Habitat’s networks across the world with a particular focus on less developed countries. UNITAC Hamburg will also work with the City of Hamburg to establish an urban technology acceleration testbed in Hamburg in which technologies, governance frameworks and approaches can be tested in a simulated urban environment before scaling up internationally.

Learning will be documented and published through high-quality guides and toolkits that can be used by policy makers to ensure that smart cities are inclusive, sustainable and people-centered. Under the overall supervision of UNITAC Manager, and the Chief of Knowledge and Innovation Branch, the individual contractor will perform the following duties and responsibilities:

Prepare internal project progress tracker for both projects to present at regular Project Management Committee (PMC) meetings. The project progress tracker should be aligned to the workplans of each project.

Provide technical support in the management of project budgets as well as procurement and recruitment needs.

Monitor potential blocks, delays, decision making needs and resources required for the implementation of the projects.

Follow up on issues and action items put to the PMC, and if necessary, take reasonable action to escalate issues that remain unresolved.

Communicate PMC decisions and requests with the project teams and visa versa.

Prepare reports to BMZ, UN-Habitat and internal reports, etc. at various stages of the project. g)

Participate in missions if requested.

Report to the Programme Lead and UN-Habitat representatives from the regional offices

Qualifications/special skills

A Bachelors’ degree in Business Management, Commerce, Urban Studies, or Social Science is required.

A Master's degree will be an added advantage.

A minimum of seven years of experience in project management for public and private institutions.is required.

Experience in working in and/or collaborating with a wide range of urban development and innovation stakeholders at the local and international level, such as e.g., government agencies, civil society organizations, start-ups, research institutions, city networks is desirable

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this position, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of German is highly desirable, and another UN language is desirable.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UN-HABITAT Project Manager – Individual Contractor Jobs in Kenya

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