Urban Migration Expert at UN-Habitat

Responsibilities

INTRODUCTION: UN-Habitat, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate and affordable housing for all. It works with organisations at every level, including all spheres of government, civil society and the private sector, to help build, manage, plan and finance sustainable urban development.

UN-Habitat supports New Urban Agenda partners and governments at all levels in formulating and implementing progressive housing sector reforms, policies, programmes and legislation which contribute to the creation of inclusive and sustainable cities, and comply with international law relating to the right to adequate housing. It provides expertise to support sound analysis of the housing sector and, in particular, the review of key legislation and elements affecting affordable housing provisions.

Within the Housing Rights Programme Portfolio, UN-Habitat works to promote and protect the right to adequate housing for all, with a specific focus on vulnerable groups, to promote socio-economic inclusion and equality in cities.

In this context, the Mediterranean City-to-City Migration Project (MC2CM), implemented as part of UN-Habitat's Housing Rights Programme aims at contributing to improved migration governance at city level in a network of cities in Europe and in the Southern Mediterranean region. The project is implemented by a consortium led by the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in partnership with the United Cities and Local Governments Network (UCLG. The project currently counts with the following cities in the network: Amman, Beirut, Casablanca, Dortmund, Grenoble, Irbid, Lisbon, Lyon, Madrid, Naples, Oujda, Rabat, Ramallah, Sfax, Sousse, Tangiers, Turin, Tunis and Vienna.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  To review a set of City Migration Profiles and produce a Regional Summary Report
•  To highlight all urban dimension aspects of the City Migration Profiles, with a focus on housing rights, human rights, and inclusion of groups in a vulnerable situation.
•  To include findings and recommendations from the City Priority Papers and the City Stakeholder Processes from cities included in the Regional Report.
•  To identify facts and figures that can represent regional trends with regards to the urban migration, housing rights. human rights, and inclusion of groups in a vulnerable situation.
•  Conduct additional desk research and collect data and information on the migration situation and relevant cross-cutting issues in the selected city as required.

Qualifications/special skills

Academic Qualifications: An advanced university degree in social sciences or related fields (including political science, sociology, anthropology, global or migration studies, local governance, urban management, public policy) is required. A first level degree with an additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.

Experience:

•  A minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience, including empirical research experience and qualitative data analysis is required.
•  Demonstrated level experience on consultancies in this area is an advantage.

Language:

•  English and French are the working languages of the United Nations. For this position, proficiency in spoken and written English is required.
•  Additional fluency in the local language of the selected city will be considered an advantage.

Deadline: 15 April 2022