Housing Analytics Expert at UN-Habitat

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. The Urban Economy Branch of UN-Habitat has the mandate to promote local capabilities of local go...

 

Housing Analytics Expert

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA
  • Experience7 years
  • LocationNairobi
  • Job FieldReal Estate 

Duties and Responsibilities

  • To achieve the above-mentioned goal, the assignment includes the following specific objectives:
  • Value Proposition for Affordable Housing Models:
  • Establish the economic, social, and policy benefits of different affordable housing tenure (ownership, rental, rent-to-own) and delivery (developer, owner-builder, cooperative) models.
  • Frame PINUA’s housing approach as a means to strengthen and support these models and their respective value chains.
  • Define the major bottlenecks and key success factors necessary for scaling these pilot initiatives.
  • Ecosystem Mapping & Stakeholder Engagement Strategy
  • Map stakeholders across Kenya’s affordable housing ecosystem for each PINUA housing stream.
  • Identify gaps and missing actors in housing delivery and financing.
  • Develop an engagement strategy to onboard critical partners and support decentralized housing delivery, unblocking barriers to scaling PINUA initiatives.
  • National Affordable Housing Implementation Strategy for the Kenya Country Program Office
  • Outline a roadmap for the KCP’s approach to housing. - Integrate government policies, private sector involvement, and financial mechanisms.
  • Provide recommendations on policy, design, and finance to ensure sustainable and scalable housing solutions in Kenya, leveraging PINUA’s expected contributions.
  • Institutional Framework for Social Housing & Cooperative Rental Models
  • Assess existing social housing institutions in Kenya and identify gaps in governance, finance, and delivery.
  • Recommend appropriate institutional arrangements for delivery of cooperative social rental and incremental housing.
  • Provide recommendations to the Government of Kenya on institutional structures that can enhance housing affordability, quality, and accessibility.
  • Define key partnerships necessary to support new housing delivery value chains (with an emphasis on cooperative social rental housing), ensuring alignment with national priorities.
  • Provide recommendations to the Government of Kenya on institutional structures that can enhance housing affordability, quality, and accessibility, aligned with government’s own institutional arrangements.
  • Strategic Positioning for Housing and Basic Services as UN-HABITAT’s Core Mission
  • Align housing strategies with UN-Habitat’s core mission and global development goals.
  • Leverage previous UN-Habitat’s initiatives (e.g., PSUP, GLTN) to develop a coherent housing and sustainable urban development strategy in support of the organization’s new strategic mission.
  • Create advocacy materials and a roadmap to position housing as a key development pillar within UN-Habitat’s programs.
  • Provide structured mentorship to two young professionals or interns through the delivery of all the outputs.

Qualifications/special skills

  • Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Housing, architecture, civil engineering, urban and regional planning, economics or physical sciences relevant to development and management of human settlements or a related field is required.
  • A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree is required.
  • A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in human settlements, project or programme management or related field is required.
  • At least two years working experience in housing or urban planning or slum upgrading within Africa is highly desirable.
  • Proven experience in human settlements development fields, projects/programme design and implementation with the UN or other international agencies is also desirable.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to UN-Habitat on careers.un.org to apply

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