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.

Responsibility 

Under the overall supervision by Head of Advocacy and Campaigns Unit the incumbent will be required to perform the following functions:

• Prepare the partners and events database and related roadmap for the Egypt Urban Campaign (EUC)
• Manage and update the EUC partners and event database with contents on solutions, events results and speakers
• Prepare web-based content for the EUC: save the dates and other announcements, stories on results and solutions for the WUC/EUC website as well as the WUF12 communication channels
• Prepare and manage social media content for the EUC
• Prepare and update materials, toolkits and Trello boards for the partners
• Prepare EUC partners meetings, presentations, minutes and outcomes reports
• Prepare key messages for the EUC
• Support in the dissemination of WUF12 key messages through the WUC and EUC
• Prepare a series of speakers profiles identified in the EUC and the WUC for consideration as speakers for the 12th session of the World Urban Forum
• Handles independently a wide range of complex information requests and inquiries; responds, or drafts responses, to a diverse range of questions from the EUC and WUC partners.
• Ensures time keeping of current tasks.
• Perform other duties as required.

Requirements

Qualifications/special skills

• A Masters Degree is required in relation to urbanization and human settlements.
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience in urban issues and communication.
• Experience of the Egyptian context is a value added.

Languages

• Excellent writing skills in both oral and written English is required