Programme Associate

**REF Number: UNH 06/11/**

**_Issued on 06/11/ _**

**ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION**:UN-HABITAT Egypt Country Office

**DUTY STATION**:Cairo - Egypt

**FUNCTIONAL TITLE**:Programme Associate

**GRADE**:Service contract SB

**POST DURATION **1 Year (Renewable)

**CLOSING DATE**:20/11/

**Number of Vacancies**:
**BACKGROUND**:
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations programme

working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally

sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all. The

current policy and development practices in Egypt are facing numerous challenges to enable the

implementation of sustainable and efficient urban development. Centralization, weak coordination

between development sectors, and poor participation of local communities are among various

difficulties hindering the achievement of enhanced national development through urbanization.

Urbanization is a key driver of development. Hence, sustainable planning and governance of

urbanization is crucial to accommodate the rapid population growth, empower cities to optimise the

value of urbanization and ensure even development, inclusion and equality. Rapid urbanization

presents a unique opportunity to lift millions out of poverty when managed sustainably. However,

inadequate urbanization management, doubled with rapid population growth has adversely affected

quality of life leading to lack of adequate housing, and increasing inequality. These conditions

contribute to diseconomies (e.g. congestion, pollution, displacement) that overtime negatively

affects the overall city prosperity, efficiency, productivity and competitiveness.

The Urban Governance, Policies and Legislation Program in Egypt works towards tackling the

multi-dimensional urbanization context with a special attention to urban management, urban

planning, urban economy where all stakeholders are empowered and enabled to engage and play

their expected role(s).The program engages with all stakeholders and on different levels to find new

appropriate, realistic and context driven approaches to urbanization processes that ensure the

provision of acceptable spatial standards and services. The program provides governance legislative

and policy recommendations to consolidate, ensure the replicability and scale up all its successful

interventions.

**ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT**:
Under the direct supervision of the Urban Governance, Policies and Legislation Program Director,

the program Associate is responsible for providing administrative support, technical support and

support in identifying relevant policy recommendations.

Egypt, 87 Tahrir Street, 9th Floor,
c/o Housing and Building Research Centre

**Key Functions**:
Support the program team in reviewing and developing the program strategy, workplan and

reaching the overall program objectives.

Support the program team in capacity building advisory services in addition to the

overtaking the required facilitation of its activities to the government.

Support the program team in overseeing and quality managing of all consultancy missions,

with a special focus on land readjustment and detailed planning.

Provide the required support to the program team on urbanization topics.

Reporting on achieved progress of (and assuring the implementation of) projects’ activities

regarding the undertaking of urban plans.

**Key results Expected**

1- Support the implementation of Governance and Legislation Programme strategies.**
- Through analysis and research of the political and social situation in the country and

preparation of substantive inputs in all the required program documents.
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- Support in supervising the process of organizational capacity building assessment, followed

by trainings and workshops to enhance the organizational capacity of key governmental and

non-governmental actors engaged in territorial governance and urban development at the

national and subnational levels.

2- Reporting on achieved progress of (and assuring the implementation of) the program projects’
activities regarding the undertaking of urban plans.
- Preparing TORs for consultants.
- Monitoring and backstopping the work of all consultancies and ensuring compliance with

the overall project and agreed consultancy TORs and quality standards.
- Coordinating the partnership processes with relevant governmental and non-governmental

agencies (Land Survey Authority, the Real Estate Publicity Department, Governate
departments, CSOs, Private Sector, Academia etc.) in all implementation sites in order to

agree on relevant roles and implemented them as expected (prepare cadastral maps, Land

tenure and Land value maps etc.)
- Coordinating between different levels for the project implementation to assure best harmony

and productivity. Including managing the relationship between the field coordinators, the
substantial officers, th