Urban Planning Associate

**Job Highlight**
This role offers the opportunity to support recovery and sustainable development in urban areas across northern Syria, working closely with communities, government and civil society partners. The Urban Planning Associate will apply their technical support and coordination skills to ensure that UN-Habitat’s projects are implemented in an evidence-based and holistic manner, in particular by integrating gender and cultural heritage aspects in plans, designs and physical interventions.

**About the Country/Multi-Country Office**
UN-Habitat’s Syria Country Programme has worked closely with Syrian cities and communities to develop an urban resilience and recovery approach. UN-Habitat supports local authorities and communities to collect better urban data to reach a common understanding of urban recovery needs; jointly identify neighborhood and municipal area response priorities, straddling humanitarian, resilience-building and recovery phases; and to design and implement housing, infrastructure and basic services, urban environment, and urban cultural heritage projects that directly respond to these local priorities. UN-Habitat Syria currently has offices in Damascus, Homs, Aleppo, and Deir Ezzor, operationalizing projects across the country.

**Job Specific Context**
UN-Habitat’s projects in Syria build on comprehensive multi-sectoral urban analysis and a participatory area-based approach that integrates key considerations such as cultural heritage, gender and social cohesion, among others. This process supports the identification of prioritized recovery interventions which, in turn, support a balanced and sustainable recovery of urban areas and create an enabling environment for returns of displaced populations. The success of the project portfolio builds on the diverse expertise, skills and experience of UN-Habitat’s team of urban specialists.

**Role Purpose**
The purpose of this role is to strengthen UN-Habitat’s evidence-based, integrated support to urban recovery and development across northern Syria. The role will particularly focus on providing technical assistance to further integrate gender, cultural heritage, and multi-sectoral data analysis into the different phases of project development and delivery. The role will also support practical aspects of project implementation, such as workshop organization, technical design, and project coordination.

**Functions / Key Results Expected**
Under the daily supervision of the Area Urban Planning Expert in Aleppo, the Urban Planning Associate is expected to provide technical assistance and logistical support to implementation of a variety of projects. This includes:

• Data management: Assist in collecting, analyzing, verifying and organizing data for city- and neighborhood-level profiles, in coordination with technical teams and other stakeholders.

• Meeting documentation and workshop support: Assist in organizing technical meetings and consultative workshops, including preparing agendas, coordinating logistics, moderating sessions, and documenting and communicating outcomes.

• Urban profile and recovery plan development: Support in preparing written inputs to urban profiles and recovery plans for cities and neighborhoods across northern Syria, based on data, analysis, and engagement with stakeholders.

• Project coordination: Assisting project managers, as necessary, with budgeting, cost control, financial oversight, reporting, following up work plans, and recording minutes of meetings.

• Any other tasks as required by the supervisor.

**Skills**
Architecture, Data Collection, Historic Preservation, Spatial Planning

**Education Requirements**
Required: Secondary School Diploma or equivalent is required.

Desired: Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, architecture, or engineering is desirable and may replace some years of experience.

**Experience Requirements**
Required:

Minimum of six (6) years of progressive experience in supporting project management, urban planning, coordination, or less according to education level.

Experience in supporting organization of community workshops.

Ability to work on Word and Excel.

Desired:

Professional experience with international organizations in supporting project management and urban planning.

Experience in supporting cultural heritage preservation and/or restoration.

Ability to work on Photoshop and Illustrator Adobe programs.

**Language Requirements**
LanguageProficiency LevelRequirementArabicFluentRequired

EnglishFluentRequired