Project Assistant at UN-Habitat

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide support to the Youth Advisory Board by coordinating their meetings to centrally meet UN-Habitat’s mission.

• Support the Youth Advisory Board in providing progress and annual reports on their activities.

• Provide support on social media by managing UN-Habitat Youth accounts in Face Book, Twitter, Snap Chat and Instagram.

• Assist in sending out the monthly UN-Habitat Youth newsletters to the subscribers and manage the account

• Facilitate the editing and publishing of youth related stories on unhabitat.org web blog.

• Facilitate the publishing of UN-Habitat Youth articles on the United Nations Youth Flash newsletters.

• Provide research support in the Youth and Livelihood unit’s programmes such as the Urban Youth Fund programme.

• Provide support to the Unit Leader when called upon. **

OUTPUTS
The Consultant is required to prepare a final report and outputs on the status of the Youth Advisory Board activities, Youth Programme social media accounts, Youth newsletters and research.

EDUCATION
• University Degree in International relations, urban studies, public administration, or other related social sciences.is required

WORK EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 1 year of progressively responsible experience involving youth and Community development programmes Knowledge of databases

• Strong interpersonal skills and the experience in working in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity

• Capacity to work with minimal supervision

• UN experiences an advantage.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
English and French are the two working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of a second official UN language is an advantage.