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CONSULTANT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Issued on: 09/10/2014
ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: UN-HABITAT
DUTY STATION: Home-based
FUNCTIONAL TITLE: Regional Advisor, Francophone Africa
DURATION: 6 working months over 1 year, between 1 November 2014 and 31 April 2015
CLOSING DATE: 17 October 2014
BACKGROUND
There are 863 million slum dwellers globally and if no serious action is taken, the number is projected to rise over the next 30 years to about 2 billion. Unless radical efforts are made to provide a range of affordable housing options and legal and secure land at scale, cities will be host to hundreds of millions of new slum-dwellers. The situation is critical and unprecedented. In response, UN-HABITAT aims to mobilize a global coalition of partners to address the challenge of unsustainable urbanization. UN-HABITAT’s vision is “to help create by 2013 the necessary conditions for concerted international and national efforts to stabilize the growth of slums and to set the stage for the subsequent reduction in and reversal of the number of slum dwellers.” This vision, derived from the Millennium Development Goals, cannot be realized without systemic reforms to promote access to land and housing for all.
As a strategic result, UN-HABITAT is committed to supporting national and local governments and Habitat Agenda Partners (HAPs) to implement improved land and housing policies. The Agency is further committed to the following three outcomes: first, supporting enabling land and housing reforms; second, increased security of tenure; and, third, promoting slum improvement and slum prevention policies. Some of the important activities to be undertaken include: a renewed effort to promote alternatives to evictions, the production of a major new global policy paper on housing, articulating a new normative framework for slum prevention, developing new land tools to implement pro poor land policies, promoting a range of land rights rather than just individual titles, and strengthening the UN systems capacity to address housing, land and property issues in post conflict and post natural disaster situations.
The Housing and Slum Upgrading Branch of UN-Habitat promotes increased access to adequate housing, slum upgrading and prevention, and community development through five cross-cutting strategies: Advocacy, knowledge management, policy advice, capacity development at the global, regional, national and local levels, and implementation support at the national and local levels. The main activities of the Branch include supporting local authorities and central governments in the formulation and implementation of housing policies and strategies to achieve adequate housing for all, as part of sustainable urban development. The Branch promotes a twin-track approach focused on improving the supply and affordability of adequate and sustainable housing for all, and slum upgrading and prevention initiatives, in the implementation of operational activities. This is done through promoting the progressive realization of the right to adequate housing as a component of the rights to an adequate standard of living.
With the objective of contributing to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 7D "to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers”, the Slum Upgrading Unit assists governments to harmonise actions towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by pro-actively engaging at neighborhood, city, national, regional and global levels; and strategically plan urban development for an efficient socio-economic transition in developing countries, cities and neighbourhoods. UN-Habitat and the Slum Upgrading Unit will continue 1) promoting partnerships for sound urban development practices, up-scaled and city-wide slum upgrading programmes; 2) emphasizing the importance of constant learning and sharing of best-practices worldwide; 3) changing perceptions for inclusive cities and urban vulnerability reduction; advocating for national pro-poor urban policies and slum upgrading strategies and funds to sustainably improve living conditions; and 4) linking efforts to decentralization and empowerment of non-state actors for policy reforms, green economies and participatory pro-active planning.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The purpose of this consultancy is to:
(1) Monitor and support the implementation of the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme in Cameroon, Niger and the Republic of Congo;
(2) Ensure timely liaison and implementation of activities of the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme, Phase 3, in the Democratic Republic of Congo supervised by the UN-Habitat Programme Manager;
(3) Contribute to the PSUP reports.
This consultancy is activity-based. The following activities are expected to be carried out by the consultant.
Monitor and support the implementation of the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme in Cameroon, Niger and the Republic of Cong
Cameroon, Niger, Ivory Coast and the Republic of Congo;
Provide support as required to the National Focal Points for the implementation of the PSUP in Cameroon, Niger, Ivory Coast and the Republic of Congo;Draft official correspondences and maintain timely communications with National Focal Points and partners, through the Slum Upgrading Unit and in collaboration with the Regional Office for Africa and the Programme Division of UN-Habitat;Participate or undertake independently technical missions to aforementioned countries, if necessary;Provide comments and feedbacks to the PSUP on methodology, promotional material and programme implementation, as required;Support the Slum Upgrading Unit in the preparation and delivery of regional and national training workshops and share lessons learnt from DRC and from Cameroon, Niger and Republic of Congo for South-South Cooperation;Provide capacity development workshops and follow-up to the country teams of the above mentioned countries;Review outputs sent by Phase 2 Francophone countries, assist with translation and editing of relevant documentation in French, as required and fitting to the work plan.
Ensure timely liaison and implementation of activities of the Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme, Phase 3, in the Democratic Republic of Congo:
Provide support as required to the UN-Habitat Programme Manager for the implementation of the PSUP in DRC;
Participate in the preparation and production of Phase 3 outputs in DRC as necessary.
Contribute to the PSUP reports:
report regularly on country progress;
contribute to quarterly reports to the EC based on the template provided by UN-Habitat;contribute to conference reports.COMPETENCIES
Familiarity with international development agenda’s in particular with housing and urban policies.
Experience and knowledge with the United Nations system, and particularly of UN-HABITAT, will be considered as an asset.
EDUCATION
Master or PhD in urban studies, architecture, housing, urban development or human settlements-related field.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Minimum of 5 years experience in research and policy development related to slum upgrading, housing, urban development and human settlements issues; or other significant working experience.
Minimum of 2 years experience in programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Proficiency and excellent analytical and writing skills in English and French. Any other UN language will be considered an asset.
OTHER SKILLS
Computer skills (Microsoft Office 2010: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint); Communication skills; skills in producing documents.
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 as per agreement.
Applications should include:
Cover memo (maximum 1 page)CV in the PHP format, accessible through the INSPIRA website (inspira.un.org) Please note, if using INSPIRA for the first time, you need to register in order to activate your account, which will allow you to log in and create a personal History Profile.The PHP should be attached to the application as a PDF file.Summary CV (maximum 2 pages), indicating the following information:Educational Background (incl. dates)Professional Experience (assignments, tasks, achievements, duration by years/ months)Other Experience and Expertise (e.g. Internships/ voluntary work, etc.)Expertise and preferences regarding location of potential assignmentsExpectations regarding remunerationCover memo (maximum 1 page)Please also be advised that since April 15th 2010, applicants for consultancies must be part of the
UN-HABITAT e-Roster in order for their application to be considered. You can reach the e-Roster
through the following link: http://e-roster.unhabitat.org/
All applications should be submitted to:
Ms. Rokhaya Diop
UN-HABITAT
P.O. Box 30030, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya
Email: Rokhaya.Diop@unhabitat.org
Fax: + 254 20 76 25 519
Deadline for applications: 17 October 2014
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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