Overview
Consultant to provide technical support for the implementation of a project focused on Technical Assistance for Social Housing (ATHIS) in Brazil and for partners from the Global South, ensuring participatory processes and addressing gender sensitivity.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical support for participatory processes, ensuring inclusiveness, representativeness, gender sensitivity, and accountability.
- Adapt UN-Habitat’s Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) methodology to the context of Social Housing Technical Assistance (ATHIS) in Brazil and for partners from the Global South.
- Provide technical support and guidance for workshops to develop a participatory, gender-oriented methodology for assessing ATHIS demands and prioritizing intervention territories.
- Develop a methodological guide systematizing participatory tools and methods for demand collection, analysis, and categorization in housing and ATHIS, with a focus on gender-related issues.
- Lead the process of defining priority communities for ATHIS interventions, considering the specific housing needs of vulnerable groups.
- Engage directly with social and community leaders to ensure legitimacy and depth of housing demand assessments.
- Provide technical support for the development and implementation of a communication and mobilization plan.
- Organize and conduct events and information sessions to raise awareness of the ATHIS Law.
- Provide support and technical guidance for conducting a Global Forum in São Paulo.
- Conduct a mapping of relevant professionals and institutions in São Paulo and partner countries involved in social housing programs.
- Provide support for the creation of a collaboration platform for ATHIS professionals from the Global South.
- Provide support to the development of a sustainability plan for the ATHIS network.
- Participate in field work missions as required.
- Complete all indicated courses and training activities, including the BSAFE security course.
Required Experience
- A minimum of three (3) years of experience in the development and implementation of participatory processes and community relationships in Brazil is required.
- Experience in capacity building is required.
- Experience with social housing is desirable.
- Experience with South-South Cooperation is desirable.
- Experience in the social area and in coordinating fieldwork, preferably in the public sector, is desirable.
- Previous experience working in the United Nations is desirable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Social Work or related fields is required or additional three (3) years of relevant experience to the post, beyond the requirement.
- Postgraduate degree (Lato Sensu or Stricto Sensu) in Sociology, Social Work, Applied Social Sciences, or related fields is desirable.
