وظيفة شاغرة في برنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي

Location : | Ramallah, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Application Deadline : | 11-Dec-20 (Midnight New York, USA)
Type of Contract : | Service Contract
Post Level : | SB-4
Languages Required : | Arabic English
Duration of Initial Contract : | 6 months

Duties and Responsibilities
| The incumbent will contribute to building up and maintaining a network of local organizations and professionals working on planning, land, and housing related matters, liaise with relevant counterparts with the Palestinian Authority, sister UN Agencies and project partners on project activities, as requested by the supervisor. More specifically, the incumbent will be responsible for:
1) Community and gender mobilization: Support gender mainstreaming in all related land mapping interventions, and during the design and implementation phases of project activities to ensure effective involvement of women and youth in all participatory activities related to this project through the implementation of a specific gender strategy;
2) Project communications: Ensure clear, coherent and consistent communication about the strategic focus and activities of the project, support media relations, developing and managing media outreach plans as required, and support advocacy efforts and field visits on regular basis, and establish networks with all relevant stakeholder (through regular meetings, workshops and conferences), and work closely with local implementing partners during the design, implementation, management of interventions in Area C and beyond;
3) Contribute to sustainable development and territorial economic development: Encourage new patterns of field work, and protect existing natural and cultural heritage and historical sites and promote livelihood development and encourage land-based finance tools, and promote proper investment in the local communities; and
4) Knowledge management and reporting along with other tasks that may be required: Leading on specific technical initiatives at the request of the supervisor at UN-Habitat, including the contribution to country, regional, and headquarters reports.Impact of Results:In alignment with the Palestine (National) Policy Agenda (2017-2022) that seeks a ‘citizen-centric’ development path, interventions and priorities identified in the UNDAF (2018-2022) related to housing and urban development in Palestine have been grouped under two strategic priorities, with the bulk of interventions under Strategic Priority 1: supporting Palestine’s path to independence, where the geopolitical fragmentation of the oPt would be reversed through fostering tenure security and mapping of land rights and spatial planning support in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip to build-back-better. Furthermore, rehabilitation work will continue to be provided to generate local economic development and build resilience, especially to women and youth groups within the targeted the Palestinian communities. Under Strategic Priority 4: leaving no one behind - social development and protection, UN-Habitat plans to extend its support in the field of urban basic services and address violence against women through the implementation of placemaking and public spaces across Palestine, with more focus on the most vulnerable groups. The UN Common Country Analysis (2016) identified the key drivers of vulnerability to those furthest behind and the challenges they face under Palestine’s current development course, including: locational, economic, socio-cultural, and institutional and political drivers.