Under the overall supervision of Senior Human Settlements Officer (SHSO), UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) and direct supervision of the Country Programme Manager – India and Afghanistan, the Junior Researcher will be responsible for:
- Provide technical inputs to build information and analysis on urbanization and climate change and their resultant impact on economic and social outcomes specially for vulnerable sections
- Undertake quantitative assessments of large datasets, including building data inventory, modeling and forecasting on urbanization using GIS and other spatial analytical tools.
- Support organizing and planning stakeholder workshops, expert group sessions, trainings and consultations on Project for City Resilience, national urban policies and programmes, and localizing new urban agenda.
- Support research on best practices and emerging knowledge on urban and housing policies as input to the ongoing national urban policy and housing policy technical assistance to Afghanistan and India.
- Develop a knowledge base of best practices, lessons learnt, experiences and stories to address nexus between urbanization, climate change, urban environment etc.
- Support Country office in New Delhi to establish and/or maintain relations with relevant stakeholders to promote innovations in areas of sustainable urbanization, housing and clean energy.
- Develop concept notes so as to strengthen project portfolio of India Office in these areas.
- Support country, regional and head office in administering and monitoring ongoing projects.
- Prepare presentations, sectoral flyers & brochures, tracking, reporting and management of ongoing and future assignment.
- Liaise and co-operate with regional and the Head office in the areas of expertise.
- Support in office administration.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities, which are within the expertise and experience as may be required by UN-Habitat in responding to the requests of the respective member states.
Junior Researcher