Overview
Provide high-level technical guidance, strategic direction, and oversight for the implementation of UNDP’s urban resilience portfolio. Ensure achievement of relevant objectives and outputs through expert advice, capacity building, and development of innovative approaches.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and technical leadership across the urban resilience portfolio.
- Provide expert technical and policy advice across all portfolio components.
- Ensure all portfolio initiatives align with international best practices, regional and country priorities, and global frameworks.
- Work closely with Project Managers and portfolio leads to ensure strategic coherence, technical quality, and integrity.
- Contribute to the preparation of annual progress reports, knowledge products, and technical documents.
- Provide technical inputs and recommendations for the implementation of portfolio activities.
- Promote a cohesive and integrated portfolio approach.
- Provide technical direction and hands-on guidance to project teams.
- Lead the development and refinement of integrated approaches to climate and disaster risk assessment, urban planning, and regional resilience-building.
- Introduce, adapt, and mainstream innovative methodologies and approaches for urban and regional resilience-building.
- Continuously identify and integrate emerging innovations, tools, and methodologies.
- Promote the adoption and scaling of new technologies, data-driven tools, and planning approaches.
- Support and guide the design and implementation of urban resilience and earthquake awareness and preparedness initiatives.
- Facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practices.
- Support the establishment and strengthening of regional collaborative mechanisms.
- Ensure effective communication and coordination among participating countries, regional organizations, and stakeholders.
- Strengthen strategic engagement with Japan and other development partners.
- Undertake regular field missions to programme countries to oversee implementation and provide technical support.
Required Experience
Minimum 5 years (with Master’s degree) or 7 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of proven track record experience in project/programme management, especially in the areas of urban resilience, disaster risk reduction, disaster coordination, earthquake preparedness, climate change, urban/ environmental planning, land use and physical planning. Working experiences on urban development, earthquake preparedness, disaster coordination, as well as disaster risk reduction and climate change issues, particularly on mainstreaming efforts in the region of Europe and Central Asia. Deep subject-matter expertise in DRR, climate adaptation, and seismic risk – demonstrated experience advising on policy and operations, including design/piloting of innovative adaptation, DRR, and earthquake awareness/preparedness measures. Regional coordination & mechanism-building – experience establishing/strengthening regional and sub-regional collaboration for urban resilience and disaster coordination.
Qualifications
Advanced degree (Master´s degree or equivalent) in Development, Governance, Urban and Regional Planning, Disaster Resilience, Environmental Planning, Environmental Science, Engineering, Climatology, Economics, or related field is required, OR A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in the above mentioned fields in combination with additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
