Urban and Migration Advisor – Informality, Municipal Finance, and Social Cohesion

Overview

Provide high-level technical expertise and advisory services on urban development and migration issues, focusing on slum upgrading, municipal finance, and social cohesion for secondary cities.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver technical advisory services and peer reviews for urban development and migration programmes.
• Advise governments on slum upgrading, informal settlement regularisation, and housing policies.
• Provide guidance on municipal finance frameworks, capital investment programming, and local revenue mobilization.
• Formulate strategies to manage urbanization and demographic shifts, integrating migrant and displaced populations.
• Advise on the development of knowledge products, policy briefs, and programme strategies.
• Lead the development of policy guidance on social cohesion and civic inclusion amid migration.
• Facilitate peer learning exchanges, technical dialogues, and policy workshops.
• Provide strategic guidance on migration-responsive urban development and inclusive urban planning.
• Develop concept notes and funding proposals for donors.
• Design programmatic interventions combining urban planning, local government financing, and migration governance.

Required Experience

Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive professional experience in sustainable, inclusive urban development and international development in low-income countries is required. Previous experience working in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa is required. Proven experience of applied international development assignments on urban and migration is required. Experience in research and policy work on migration, sustainable and inclusive urban development in low-income countries is an asset. Specific professional experience working in or advising on urban migration context challenges in Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is highly desirable.

Qualifications

An Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent), preferably in Urban Planning, Municipal Finance, Development Economics, Civil Engineering/Architecture, Human Geography, Migration Studies, Sociology, or a related urban/political discipline, is required. A first-level university degree (Bachelor's degree or equivalent) in related fields combined with an additional two (2) years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.

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