Urban Health expert at United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities
Under the overall supervision of the Programme Management Officer, the consultant will be responsible for the following duties:
• Support the Young Gamechangers Initiative Globally and in the pilot cities; • Provide urban health inputs to ongoing and future projects;
• Draft project proposals for new programme implementation;
• Contribute to resource mobilisation and grant application.;
• Seek out new partnerships and collaborations;
• Develop urban health normative documents;
• Provide critical analysis of existing urban health documents and instruments;
• Provide inputs to guides, policy briefs and normative outputs;
• Provide urban health inputs into PFES publications and documents;
• Mainstream urban health throughout the Planning Finance Economy Section and UN-Habitat; and
• Attend meetings, missions and conferences within and outside UN-Habitat on behalf of the Urban Health team and Planning Finance Economy Section.

Qualifications/special skills
Education;
• University degree in public health, environmental studies, medicine, sustainable development, urban planning, or related fields relevant to urban development and urban health is required. Working Experience;
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in project management and coordination in public health, global health, urban health, sustainable development, clinical practice, health systems management, urban policy, environmental health science, or research.
• Experience in research related to the urban environment and/or sustainability and the use of evidence-based knowledge for programmed development is required.
• Experience in writing reports, documents and correspondence is required.