The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the UN agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all

She/he will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Provide technical contributions in the development of methodology for the Shanghai Adapted Index (SAI)
• Contribute to the generation of urban geospatial data for selected urban indicators.
• Prepare city profiles based on UMF domains and other relevant data themes, supported with data narratives, insights, and key messaging for informing policy.
• Provide capacity building to countries on SDG indicators’ computation based on the harmonized city definition approach (DEGURBA).

Qualifications/special skills

• Academic Qualifications: Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in urban planning, statistics, demography, economics, urban studies, or any other closely related field is required. At least five years of experience is required as researcher/analyst working on urban and human settlements issues at the local, national, and international levels is required. Good knowledge of and experience working with indicator frameworks is highly desirable