We are seeking a highly competent, experienced, and results-driven Finance Manager to join our team. The successful candidate will oversee the institution’s financial operations, ensure regulatory compliance. strengthen financial controls, and provide strategic financial guidance to management.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee the institution’s financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Prepare and present accurate financial statements and management reports.
• Monitor cash flow, liquidity, income, and expenditure
• Ensure compliance with applicable financial regulations, tax laws, and reporting standards.
• Develop and maintain effective internal financial controls.
• Monitor financial performance and provide recommendations for improved profitability.
• Manage treasury operations and financial resource allocation. Oversee reconcillations, accounts payable, receivable, and general ledger activities.
• Coordinate internal and external audits.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate financial risks.
• Advise management on financial strategies and business decisions

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field. CPA (K). ACCA, or an equivalent professional qualification
• Aleast 3-5 years of relevant experience in a financial institution or financial services environment.
• Strong knowledge of financial reporting regulatory compliance, and financial management.
• Excellent analytical, leadership, and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency in accounting systems and Microsoft Excel
• High levels of integrity, confidentiality, and professionalism.
• Ensure full compliance with CBK regulations and DCP requirements, including the timely preparation and submission
• of all mandatory regulatory reports and returns.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and process delivery orders for ceramic tiles and sanitary ware using the procurement system.
• Handle carton supplier reconciliations, verify invoices, and coordinate payment requests.
• Monitor supplier deliveries and follow up on outstanding or delayed orders.
• Prepare and administer one-time procurement contracts, coordinate approvals, and track the contract signing process.
• Facilitate supplier registration, onboarding, and maintenance of supplier records.
• Maintain accurate physical and electronic procurement records, including contracts, purchase orders, invoices, and payment documents.
• Process and update procurement transactions in SAP SRM or other ERP systems.
• Coordinate with Finance, Warehouse, and other relevant departments to ensure efficient procurement operations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 2–3 years of relevant experience in procurement or purchasing back-office operations.
• Proficiency in SAP SRM, SAP ERP, or other ERP systems.

Job Purpose

The Senior Officer – Transaction Monitoring and Payment Screening oversees the effective identification, investigation and escalation of potentially suspicious transactions and sanctioned payments to mitigate financial crime risk. The role ensures compliance with applicable AML/CFT and sanctions regulations through diligent alert review, sound risk-based decision-making and high-quality case documentation. Key supporting responsibilities include regulatory reporting, maintaining strong internal controls, providing guidance to junior compliance staff, Central Operations and business teams, and contributing to continuous improvement of monitoring and screening processes.

The position monitors and analyses financial transactions to detect suspicious activities related to money laundering, terrorism financing, proliferation financing, fraud and other financial crimes. Investigations involve reviewing alerts generated by transaction monitoring and screening systems, conducting enhanced due diligence, gathering data from internal and external sources, and collaborating with other departments. The Senior Officer documents findings, clears or escalates suspicious transaction alerts, and prepares reports, such as suspicious activity reports, to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. The role also supports audit and regulatory reviews, monitoring process improvements and screening system tuning.

Key Responsibilities

Transaction Monitoring Oversight

• Review and investigate alerts generated by transaction monitoring systems for suspicious or unusual activity.
• Conduct detailed analysis of customer transactions to identify potential money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing, fraud, or other financial crimes / unusual financial activities
• Apply risk-based judgment to determine whether alerts are true or false positives. Investigating and analysing alerts, closing false positive alerts based on business feedback and escalating true positive alerts and suspicious cases appropriately to MLRO for further investigation or reporting.
• Support the preparation and escalation of Suspicious Transaction/Activity Reports (STRs/SARs) in accordance with regulatory requirements, ensuring each report is supported by a comprehensive investigation narrative that clearly documents findings, decisions, and supporting rationale.
• Maintain accurate case records to support audits, regulatory examinations, and internal reviews.

Screening Payment

• Perform name and transaction screening against sanctions, watchlists, and restricted party lists (e.g. UN, OFAC, EU, UK HMT, and local regulators).
• Review and resolve payment screening alerts related to inbound and outbound transactions within the required timelines.
• Assess potential sanctions exposure and recommend action such as blocking, rejecting, or releasing transactions.
• Ensure payments comply with applicable sanctions and embargo regulations.
• Maintain updated logs for tracking of stripped payment messages, payments blocked/rejected over Sanctions concerns and true sanctions match logs.
• Perform monitoring checks to ensure that full originator and beneficiary information is included in outgoing & Incoming payment messages including monitoring of stripped payment messages
• Perform and/or assist the Trade Operations Unit in shipment and vessel tracking, as well as IMB checks.
• Action escalated cases from the Trade Operations Unit

Systems, Internal Controls & Quality Assurance

• Assist in system testing, tuning, and implementation of new rules or typologies.
• Identify system issues and work with relevant IT teams to resolve them while keeping MLRO in copy.
• Identify trends, typologies, and control gaps within transaction monitoring and payment screening processes and escalate to MLRO.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of monitoring and screening rules.
• Participate in quality assurance initiatives to enhance alert handling consistency and accuracy.
• Contribute to review and updating compliance policies and SOPs

Customer and stakeholder engagement

• Ensure turnaround times and service level agreements (SLAs) are met.
• Provide guidance, coaching and feedback to junior analysts and support knowledge-sharing within the team to improve investigation quality.
• Liaise with Compliance team, Central Operations, and Business teams on complex cases and escalations.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for transaction monitoring and payment screening queries.
• Support and participate in compliance role-based training of employees

Other Activities

• Contribute to periodic MIS reporting on alerts, escalations, and trends.
• Supporting implementation of audit and regulatory compliance recommendations.
• Provide insights to MLRO on emerging risks and operational challenges.
• Track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to transaction monitoring and screening effectiveness.
• Supports team leads or managers in workflow optimization and backlog management.
• Support the compliance team in terms of providing backups, as and when required by MLRO.

In addition to the above accountabilities, new tasks or responsibilities may be assigned by the MLRO and/or line Manager on time-to-time basis.

Job Specification

Education & Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from recognized institution.

Training / Skills

• Integrated marketing campaign management across ATL, BTL, and digital channels — required.
• Brand identity management and brand architecture — required.
• Digital marketing including paid social, SEO, email marketing, and performance analytics — required.
• Budget development and financial management of marketing spend — required.
• Agency briefing, management, and performance evaluation — required.
• Islamic calendar marketing and Halal marketing principles — preferred.
• Marketing automation and CRM platform familiarity — preferred.

Work Experience

• Minimum 3-4 years of experience in a similar role, preferably banking experience.

Competencies

Technical

• Analytical Ability
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Compliance Policy design and development
• Governance and Risk Management
• Sanctions Compliance Management
• Sharia Principles
• Anti Money Laundering
• Risk Management

Behavioral

• Think & Act Customer
• Business & Strategic Acumen
• Ownership & Accountability
• Change & Innovation Agility
• Plan & Execute to Excel
• Grow Personally & Develop Teams
• Digital Mindset
• Forster Synergy
• Interpersonal Effectiveness

Position Overview

• We are hiring a Senior Frontend Developer to build and maintain the user interface of a commercial real estate software platform. The platform helps companies manage property leases, documents, key dates, tasks and lease accounting compliance.
• You will develop data-heavy enterprise interfaces in React and TypeScript, including complex forms, data grids, dashboards and reporting. This role requires someone who can independently take features from brief to deployment, proactively suggest improvements and learn unfamiliar libraries and parts of the stack.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the platform’s user interface in React and TypeScript, using the Material-UI component library.
• Build reusable, well-tested components for the wider team.
• Connect the frontend to the GraphQL API and keep data loading fast, using Relay.
• Develop multi-step lease forms with validation, large data grids with server-side pagination and filtering, dashboards, charts, reporting and document previews.
• Keep the application performant, responsive and accessible.
• Own features end to end, from scoping with the architect through implementation, testing, code review and deployment.
• Support multi-tenant theming and internationalisation, including right-to-left languages.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional frontend development experience.
• Expert React skills, including hooks, context, state management and performance optimisation.
• Strong TypeScript experience across a large codebase, beyond basic typing.
• Experience consuming GraphQL APIs from the frontend. The platform uses Relay; Apollo or similar experience is acceptable.
• Frontend testing as a normal part of development, using tools such as Jest, Vitest or React Testing Library.
• Experience with modern build tools such as Vite or webpack.
• Experience building data-heavy enterprise interfaces, including complex forms, data tables and dashboards.
• Ability to independently take a feature from brief to shipped.
• A proactive approach to identifying UX and technical problems and suggesting improvements.
• Ability to learn new libraries and parts of the stack, including working from documentation.

Nice to have

• Experience with Material-UI, Minimals UI or a similar design system.
• Accessibility experience, including WCAG 2.1, and internationalisation experience, including right-to-left languages.
• C#/.NET exposure sufficient to read backend code.
• Experience with MongoDB or Cosmos DB.
• Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP.

Location: Remote (based in Kenya)

Position Overview

• We are hiring a Senior Business Systems Analyst to work on a commercial real estate software platform and connect end users, stakeholders and engineers. The platform helps companies manage property leases, documents, key dates, tasks and lease accounting compliance.
• You will turn business needs into clear, buildable requirements, maintain the delivery backlog and help verify that completed work meets user needs. The role combines requirements gathering, documentation, Agile delivery support, hands-on testing and SQL-based data checks.

Responsibilities

• Run requirements sessions with end users and stakeholders to understand what they need and why.
• Write epics, features and user stories with clear acceptance criteria using the Given/When/Then format.
• Understand how stories connect to each other and the wider product so work is sequenced sensibly.
• Keep the Azure DevOps backlog and Kanban boards clean and up to date, including grooming, sizing and sprint planning.
• Produce functional specifications, process flows and data mapping documentation where needed.
• Work alongside developers during sprints to clarify requirements and answer questions.
• Write and run test cases, perform functional and regression testing, and coordinate user acceptance testing with the business.
• Triage defects and sign off on release readiness.
• Use SQL to check the data behind requirements and reports.
• Use AI-based tools, such as Copilot for Azure DevOps, to support story writing, documentation and analysis.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a business systems analyst or product analyst.
• Solid Agile/Scrum experience, including ceremonies, sprints, backlog refinement and Kanban boards.
• Experience managing requirements and work items in Azure DevOps or Jira.
• Strong written specifications and acceptance criteria, including the ability to write user stories that developers can build from without needing a follow-up conversation.
• Confidence running interviews, workshops, demos and walkthroughs with end users.
• Hands-on testing experience, including writing test cases, functional and regression testing, and coordinating UAT.
• Basic SQL literacy: ability to write and run queries and understand tables and their relationships.
• Strong communication skills, including drawing out user and customer needs and explaining them clearly to engineers.
• Attention to detail in identifying requirements gaps and defects before they reach users.
• A proactive approach to finding missing information.
• Ability to learn new tools, including AI tools, and develop knowledge of the lease management domain.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure DevOps queries, views and dashboards.
• Experience using AI tools such as Copilot for Azure DevOps or ChatGPT for analysis, story writing and documentation.

Location: Remote (based in Kenya)

What you will do:

• The Advocacy Advisor plays a pivotal role in shaping NRC’s policy influence and public positioning in Somalia and Kenya, two of the most complex humanitarian contexts globally. Operating at a senior level, the role leads the design and implementation of advocacy and communications strategies, ensuring coherence with country programme priorities and global standards. It provides expert analysis, develops evidence based advocacy products, and represents NRC in key fora, while also building the capacity of staff and partners to amplify the voices of displaced communities. By bridging operational realities with policy engagement, the Advocacy Advisor ensures NRC’s responses are not only impactful on the ground but also contribute to systemic change at national, regional, and international levels.

General Responsibilities:

• Identify and coordinate NRC’s advocacy response to prioritised issues both within the country and internationally
• Develop and implement an impactful advocacy and communications strategy, aligned with the overall country strategy.
• Develop CO media plan and lines, ensuring risk analyses are made regarding public positions or statements and sign-off procedures are adhered to
• Line management of communications teams, including development of staff if applicable, budget planning and execution, and other administration
• Ensure systematic training on advocacy and communication to develop capacity of all relevant staff (within and beyond the advocacy and media department) and ensure compliance with NRC policies, e.g. informed consent, data protection, social media standards

Specific responsibilities:

• Strategically and ethically raise issues and voices of displaced people in Somalia and Kenya  to the attention of decision-makers, duty-bearers, and the public, through both traditional and innovative means
• Increase accountability of NRC Somalia and Kenya through providing regular and consistent information publicly, about the situations we are responding to and the state of our response (or contributions to coordinated responses)
• Contribute to Country Office and Area Office problem, protection, and programme analyses and ‘systems thinking’ with a policy lens and a public interest lens, and subsequently promote that relevant policy, advocacy, and communications elements are integrated when designing responses and strategies
• Coordinate and monitor implementation and impact of NRC Somalia, Kenya, etc. advocacy and media plans and strategies
• Prepare high quality briefings, reports, press statements, letters, and other communications materials (including visual, digital, and social media) for internal coordination and external use

What you will bring:

Generic professional competencies: 

• Post-graduate with minimum five years of relevant experience within the humanitarian field or international media/organisations
• Must have humanitarian advocacy experience and policy management from different contexts.
• Relevant experience in advocacy, communications, media, or humanitarian policy
• Experience working in complex and insecure contexts, preferably in the Horn of Africa
• Strong understanding of humanitarian coordination architecture and donor environments
• Proven experience engaging media and managing sensitive external communications
• Experience producing high-level advocacy products and policy analysis.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• High levels of flexibility and creativity
• Documented professional experience of working in or with international media
• Strong managerial and interpersonal skills
• Fluency in English with strong verbal and written communications skills

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Knowledge of international legal and policy processes and instruments relating to displacement, protection, peace/conflict, and humanitarian action
• Cogent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Aptitude to think creatively and boldly, to engage (potentially hostile) protection and access advocacy targets

What we offer:

• Duty station: Nairobi (national contract)
• Contract: 24 Months (renewable based on funding and performance)
• Travel: 70% of dedicated time to the Somalia country office, including regular visits to Somalia (once every 3 months); 10% dedicated time to the Kenya country office; and 20% travel to other countries in East Africa to be identified.
• Salary/benefits: grade 9 on NRC’s national salary scale
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.

Job Description

•  Intake Care Associate Analyst : The preauthorization, claims review, negotiation and care coordination analyst is responsible for managing the full continuum of care management and cost containment activities-from pre-service authorization through post -service claims review and provider negotiations. This role ensures clinical appropriateness, policy compliance, and cost effective care delivery while coordinating services for complex and high-risk members to improve outcomes and member experience.

Key Responsibilities

Preauthorization/Utilization Management:

• Review and process preauthorization request for medical services, procedures, and treatments
• Assess medical necessity using clinical guidelines, policy criteria, and regulatory requirements
• Collaborate with clinical teams to ensure appropriate level of care and service utilization
• Identify high-risk or high-cost cases early and route for care coordination or case management intervention
• Conduct detailed reviews of medical claims for accuracy, coding integrity, and benefit alignment
• Identify billing discrepancies, overutilization, and potential cost-saving opportunities
• Support appeals, reconsiderations and audit activities as needed
•  Analyze trends in high-cost claims and recommend process improvements
• Lead or support negotiations for out-of-network claims, high-cost procedures, and single case assignments
• Partner with provider network and contracting teams to align negotiation approaches
• Document and track savings outcomes, including financial and operational impact
• Partner with case management, clinical teams, and providers to ensure continuity and quality of care

Qualification/Skills

• Degree or Diploma ; additional education in healthcare, business or related fields preferred
• Knowledge of medical claims adjudication, prior authorization processes, medical necessity review, and utilization management guidelines, with the ability to review clinical documentation and apply established coverage criteria.
• Coding certification (e.g., CPC, CCS) a plus but not preferred
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral, with a good telephone manner
• Flexibility and ability to multi-task.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Problem solving & decision making.
• Team player
• Ability to interpret key data and identify trends.

This role operates on a 24/7 schedule. Selected candidates will be assigned to one of the following shifts: 8:00 PM – 6:00 AM EAT (Sat-Wed), 9:00 PM – 7:00 AM EAT (Wed-Sun), or 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM EAT (Sat-Wed). Flexibility to work weekends and holidays is required.

About the Role

• The Scrum Master / Agile Team Coach is a team coach and servant leader who facilitates change through the adoption and application of Agile principles, practices, and frameworks.
• The role enables teams to self-organize, improve flow, embrace effective ways of working, and consistently deliver value outcomes to stakeholders. The role partners closely with Product Owners, team members, Release Train Engineers, Agile Product Managers, and other stakeholders to support predictable delivery and continuous improvement.
• This is a Band 3 Contributor Career Track Role.

Key Responsibilities

Team Coaching and Agile Enablement

• Provide coaching and guidance to Agile Teams and support the adoption and application of Agile values, principles, and practices.
• Act as a servant leader, facilitator, mentor, and coach for individuals and teams.
• Enable teams to improve collaboration, transparency, psychological safety, accountability, and self-management.
• Use effective communication and listening skills to teach, coach, mentor, and support healthy team interactions.
• Foster a healthy working culture, build strong relationships, and strengthen key interactions across teams and stakeholders.

Delivery Flow and Continuous Improvement

• Support teams in improving flow, reducing bottlenecks, managing impediments, and operating at a sustainable pace.
• Help teams establish realistic and achievable delivery commitments based on capacity, clarity, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Maintain metrics and data necessary to provide visibility into maturity, progress, quality, flow, predictability, and value delivery.
• Facilitate evidence-based improvement through retrospectives, improvement actions, and follow-through on agreed outcomes.
• Encourage Built-In Quality, continuous learning, and relentless improvement as part of day-to-day team working practices.

Facilitation and Cadence Events

• Support and facilitate team ceremonies and cadence events that drive progress toward value delivery and business outcomes.
• Facilitate team events such as planning, team syncs, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and improvement workshops, as applicable to the team context.
• Participate in Sync events, Scrum Master / Team Coach forums, and internal Agile communities of practice.
• Support ART-level alignment events, including PI Planning, ART Sync, Coach Sync, System Demo, and Inspect & Adapt, as applicable.

ART Alignment, Dependencies, and Impediments

• Provide support that helps Agile Teams improve overall ART performance through collaboration and alignment between team objectives, vision, and strategic themes.
• Facilitate and support dependency management to ensure alignment of delivery across teams.
• Support removal of impediments that hinder achievement of team goals and objectives.
• Protect the team from unnecessary disruptions and external distractions while escalating systemic impediments in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, RTEs, Agile Product Managers, business stakeholders, and technology partners to maintain transparency and alignment.

Success in this Role

• Teams demonstrate stronger self-management, collaboration, and ownership of delivery outcomes.
• Impediments, blockers, dependencies, and delivery risks are made visible and addressed promptly.
• Team ceremonies and cadence events are purposeful, outcome-focused, and continuously improved.
• Metrics and qualitative insights are used to improve flow, predictability, quality, and stakeholder transparency.
• Teams operate at a sustainable pace while maintaining alignment with ART priorities and International Health business outcomes.
• Continuous improvement becomes embedded in the team culture.

Required Qualifications / Skills / Experience

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Advanced Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master, or equivalent Agile certification.
• At least 4 years of proven experience as a Scrum Master/Agile Team Coach role.
• Experience facilitating team development and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of Lean-Agile principles, Scrum practices, Kanban practices, and team-level Agile delivery.
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and understanding of its principles and practices.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, coaching, mentoring, and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage priorities in a changing environment and support teams working under delivery deadlines.
• Ability to interact with Subject matter experts, Product Owners, Agile Product Managers, and stakeholders in a matrix structure.
• Knowledge of IT concepts, software delivery lifecycle, delivery methodologies, architecture considerations, and technical standards.

Desired Qualifications / Skills / Experience

• Working knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Mural, or similar collaboration tools.
• Experience supporting product, platform, operational, or service-based delivery teams.
• Experience facilitating organizational change and Agile transformation initiatives.
• Experience in software development lifecycle, IT delivery, product delivery, or project management.

BACKGROUND TO CONSULTANCY

• Under the overall supervision of the Programme Coordinator Climate Change and Urban Environment and in close collaboration with colleagues from the Climate Change and Urban Environment Section and climate focal points across the agency, the incumbent will be required to perform the following functions:

IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities and Innovate4Cities: 

• Lead on IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities housing elements translating global analysis into policy, programmatic and country-level applications.

NDC3.0: Strengthening the Urban Content of the NDCs / Multilevel Climate Action

• Lead the development and country-level application of NDC implementation capacity-building
• Capture and systematize lessons learned to inform UN-Habitat’s broader NDC implementation ap-proach
• Lead the Urban Content in NDCs 3.0: Housing and Informal Settlements spinoff,

Programme Development and Resilient Settlements for the Urban Poor – RISE UP

• Develop the CCUE-S housing-climate portfolio through resource mobilization and strategic partnerships
• Act as focal point for Housing and Slum Upgrading Section and housing; Asia-Pacific and Section Work Plan including working on programme development (housing entry point)

OBJECTIVE OF THE CONSULTANCY

• The consultancy will advance the Climate Change and Urban Environment Section’s Workplan with a particular emphasis on the analysis of urban content of NDCs and their implementation through global and regional tools and direct collaboration with country offices and their partners. It will further advance the Section’s capacity to respond to requests pertaining to the housing / informal settlements and climate change nexus. Specific deliverables are listed below:

Qualifications/special skills

• Minimum advanced university degree (M.Sc. or equivalent) in Urban planning, Architecture, environmental management, public policy or relevant field is required.
• A first degree with 2 additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
• A minimum of 2 years of progressively responsible experience in architecture and urban planning and design, project management and stakeholder engagement, ideally gained at the international level is required, including working on urban climate change mitigation and/or adaptation is required. Proven experience in green-buildings solutions and climate resilient housing and urban design is re-quired.
• Proven experience in communicating and visualizing urban climate change knowledge is required.
• Proven experience with NDC development and implementation is required.
• Familiarity with capacity development in an international environment is desirable.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop knowledge products, events, and strategic engagements for SURGe visibility and advocacy. • Facilitate effective and productive engagement with the Bratislava Hub and the Slovak Republic.
• Develop guidelines, workshop materials and partner engagement to help member states in the implementation of NDCs 3.0 with strong urban content, under SURGe.
• Develop Resource Mobilization for multilevel climate action and the operationalization of SURGe regional hubs, including the identification of strategic opportunities and the development of pitch materials. SURGe Secretariat – Focal point for regional and country engagement
• Work on the day-to-day operations and engagement with SURGe regional coordinators, including check-in and reporting mechanisms, co-development of products and fostering of collaborations.
• Work with the SURGe regional coordinators in their regional and country rollout, including country prioritization, materials development and workshop delivery.
• Work closely with SURGe regional coordinators and SURGe countries in localizing and tailoring guidelines and materials for NDC implementation, including national implementation strategies and local climate action plans.
• Facilitate the identification of opportunities for collaboration and synergies between SURGe and RISE UP countries. Science-Innovation-Policy-Action Nexus – Innovate4Cities and IPCC engagement • Develop and implement the rollout strategy for Innovate4Cities 2028.
• Facilitate the translation and increased impact of the IPCC SR Cities, including the development of a workplan ahead of its launch
• Facilitate partner and donor engagement, organization of strategic events, and preparation of technical products. Climate-Crisis Nexus – Focal Point
• Ensure CCUE-S’ involvement in UN-Habitat’s crisis work, providing climate entry points and strategic guidance.
• Map priorities and facilitate strategic conversations and collaborations with internal and external partners.
• Develop ad-hoc knowledge products, advisory and pitches for example related to El Nino and the conflicts in Ukraine etc. Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) – Co-focal point
• Ensure Co-lead CCUE-S’ engagement with ROLAC, including liaising with ROLAC colleagues to co-create knowledge products,
• Organize events, and identification of opportunities for joint resource mobilization and NDC 3.0 implementation.

Qualifications/special skills

• Minimum advanced university degree (M.Sc. or equivalent) in Social Sciences, International Relations, Public Policy, Urban/Regional Planning, Environment Studies, International Development or a relevant field is required. A first degree with 2 additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
• A minimum of 2 years of progressively responsible experience in urban management, project management and stakeholder engagement, ideally gained at the international level is required, including working on urban climate change mitigation and/or adaptation.
• Familiarity with research and academic processes and academic partnerships at the international level is required.
• Proven experience in communicating urban climate change knowledge is desirable.
• Proven experience in project management, event organization and capacity development is an ad-vantage
• Proven experience addressing the climate-crisis-urbanization nexus is an advantage