Programme Management Officer, Human Settlements, P4
United Nations · Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR
Org. Setting and Reporting The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN\-Habitat) is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. UN\-Habitat is the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system. UN\-Habitat works with partners to build inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and communities. UN\-Habitat promotes urbanization as a positive transformative force for people and communities, reducing inequality, discrimination and poverty. This position is located in the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The incumbent will report to the Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean and work closely with programme divisions, branches and units at Headquarters and across the region. Within delegated authority, the Programme Management Officer, Human Settlements will be responsible for the following duties: 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. Competencies PROFESSIONALISM: Knowledge and understanding of theories, concepts and approaches relevant to particular sector, functional area or other specialized field; ability to identify issues, analyze and participat