Overview
The Assistant Settlement Planning Officer provides support to emergency and protracted operations in designing and developing sustainable settlements for people of concern. The role involves analysing settlement options, spatial allocation of lands, and assisting in negotiations with authorities regarding land acquisition and site development.
Key Responsibilities
- - Provide support in conducting assessments, analysis and joint inter-sector needs assessment exercises and selection of potential sites.
- - Draft settlement layouts, block plans and specific site plans.
- - Develop implementation modalities and work plans for settlement plans.
- - Provide technical guidance, supervision and monitoring of settlement plan implementation.
- - Conduct regular monitoring of settlement and infrastructure works.
- - Assist in conducting assessments, providing concrete initiatives and drafting specific strategies for hazard risk mitigation.
- - Liaise with relevant authorities and government counterparts.
- - Draft settlement plans aligned with regional, national land use plans.
- - Participate in site selection and land negotiations.
- - Support the development and implementation of Settlement plans in a consultative process.
- - Draft Settlement Master Plans and provide periodic updates.
- - Ensure the use of common standards and tools for information collection and data management.
- - Collaborate and coordinate with functional units and technical actors.
- - Provide support in carrying out appropriate assessments and mapping exercises.
- - Promote the integration of cross-cutting issues in needs assessments, planning and monitoring.
- - Support active participation of communities and promotion of community-based approaches.
- - Develop regular reports and share information.
- - Promote and ensure accountability to affected populations.
- - Provide equitable access to basic services and promote inclusion of site community groups.
- - Support the identification and management of risks and opportunities.
- - Perform other related duties as required.
Required Experience
- For P1/NOA - 1 year relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or no experience with Graduate degree; or no experience with Doctorate degree.
- Desirable: Experience in all disciplines of Civil Engineering, Rural Settlement Development, Emergency Management and Environmental Planning, and ability to make the linkages to rehabilitation and development programmes.
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree; or Graduate degree; or Doctorate degree.
- Field(s) of Education: Civil Engineering; Construction; Urban Planning, Architecture; or other relevant field.
- Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in architecture or urban planning, with a strong academic foundation in spatial design, settlement planning, and built‑environment studies.
