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Trainings Coordinator – Retainer
UNOPSUnited NationsProgrammeMid LevelICA - LICA - Specialist - Retainer
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Full Description
**Job Highlight**
Leads the coordination of capacity building and training activities under the QUDSI-R4R Business Development track for project-supported affiliates.
Works closely with trainers, service providers, affiliates, and project teams.
Support Duration of Assignment & Level of Effort:
The duration of the consultancy assignment will be (12 months maximum).
The consultancy assignment will be implemented based on the operational needs of this assignment.
**About the Region**
The UNOPS Middle East Region (MR) provides strategic leadership, performance oversight, and support to UNOPS operations across Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and the State of Palestine. MR is responsible for positioning UNOPS as a key development partner in the region through high-level engagement with regional bodies, UN coordination mechanisms, development banks, donors, and intergovernmental organizations. By fostering strategic partnerships and promoting operational excellence, the region supports country teams in delivering sustainable solutions to complex development, peace, and humanitarian challenges.
UN-Habitat, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. It is the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations agency for human settlements. UN-Habitat’s mission is to promote transformative changes in cities and human settlements through knowledge, policy advice, technical assistance and collaborative action to leave no one and no place behind. UN-Habitat works through a medium-term strategy approach. It has recently completed the Strategic Plan 2020-2025, and started working on the Strategic Plan 2026-2029, and produced a pre-final draft in February 2025, which introduces a strategic focus for 2026-2029 on: adequate housing, land, basic services for all, including the urgent transformation of informal settlements and slums.
With the aim of achieving impact on peoples’ lives, and to focus on sustainable urbanization, the new strategic plan for 2026-2029, adding value to the efforts of the United Nations and the broader multilateral system, seeks to address global challenges mirrored by three impact areas: a) equitable and inclusive prosperity for poverty eradication; b) preparedness, response, recovery and reconstruction; and c) environment and climate action.
As part of its crucial humanitarian and development work worldwide, UN-Habitat presents concrete examples of its engagement with partners working in the field of transport planning, service delivery and urban safety monitoring. Moreover, in humanitarian contexts UN-Habitat has been coordinating GIS and data-science based urban and neighborhood profiling in order to prioritize short-term humanitarian interventions and longer- term urban recovery efforts.
**Job Specific Context**
As part of the Business Development and Economic Empowerment Track under the QUDSI-R4R project, UN-Habitat aims to strengthen the operational capacity, business performance, and sustainability of project-supported stakeholders and affiliates in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Capacity building constitutes a key component of this effort. To support project beneficiaries and affiliated initiatives, the project will implement five (5) targeted trainings courses designed to enhance practical skills related to (1) social media marketing, (2) photography, videography, and content creation, (3) Basic Graphic Design, (4) Developing Business Products & Services, and (5) Business Management Skills relevant to the project’s economic empowerment objectives.
Each training course will be structured to combine group-based learning sessions and individualized mentoring support sessions, enabling participants to both acquire knowledge and apply it to their specific operational contexts. Each training course will include:
• Six (6) group training sessions, and
• Two (2) individual mentoring sessions for each participating entity or participant,
The estimated duration for each session is around three (3) hours. Group sessions will focus on delivering core training content and facilitating peer learning, while individual sessions will provide tailored guidance to support participants in applying the training concepts to their own initiatives or businesses.
To ensure effective planning, coordination, and delivery of these trainings, UN-Habitat seeks to recruit a Training Coordinator (Individual Consultant) responsible for overseeing the full lifecycle of the training courses, including preparation, coordination with trainers, logistical arrangements, participant management, and monitoring of training outcomes.
The Training Coordinator will work closely with subject-matter trainers responsible for delivering the training content. Through this role, the Training Coordina
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