UN-Habitat established a presence in Afghanistan early 1992. The overarching vision of UN-Habitat’s work in Afghanistan is for prosperous, inclusive and equitable human settlements that reduce poverty and contribute to national stability and development. The mission of the UN-Habitat Country Programme is to transform lives through enhancing access to urban land, housing and services, while making systems and institutions responsive to people’s views and needs.
UN-Habitat’s Country Programme Strategy 2016-2019 is focused on three thematic focus areas:
· Planned and Well-Governed Settlements to enhance the government’s capacity to guide the development of human settlements in a participatory, equitable and accountable manner while ensuring access to basic services;
· Inclusive Settlements to improve access to affordable land and housing, services and infrastructure for all residents of human settlements with a focus on poor and female-headed households, including IDPs and returnees.; and
· Prosperous Settlements to contribute to towns and cities being hubs of economic activity that generate sustainable employment and enable residents ─ particularly the young ─ to acquire productive skills.
Integral to each of these Focus Areas are cross-cutting issues of gender, youth, and development of national capacity, environmental protection and disaster risk reduction.
UN-HABITAT has presence in 10 provinces of the country, including five major cities and works in implementing its strategy through six programmes: Afghanistan Urban Peace building Programme (AUSSP), Clean and Green Cities (CGC), City for All (K-SMNP and MGSP), Project for City Resilience (PCR) and the Promoting Early Recovery and Durable Solutions in Informal Settlements of Protracted Displacement and Regional Returns (PERDS- HLP-TF) and SHURA.
City for All (CFA):
UN-Habitat is supporting the Government to implement the City for All (CFA) programme in nine municipal authorities (Herat, Farah, Mazar, Jalalabad, Kandahar, Bamyan, Nili, Kunduz and Kabul), between 2016-2020 through two projects: Municipal Governance Support Programme (MGSP) funded by European Union, and Strengthening Municipal Nahias Programme (K-SMNP) funded by USAID. The two projects have the same overall objectives and follow a similar approach. They will henceforth be implemented concurrently under the umbrella CFA programme. The expected outcomes of the programme are:
Strengthened municipal capacities and systems for urban planning, land management and municipal finance; (2) Improved municipal service delivery and strengthened social contract between citizens and municipal authorities; (3) Improved enabling environment for municipal governance, local economic development and service delivery.
Qualification and eligibility
· Competencies and skills
· Requirements Analysis, Design Skills, Project Management, Manufacturing Methods and Procedures, Process Improvement, Technical Understanding, Documentation Skills, Safety Management, Supervision, CAD, CAD/CAM Circuit Design. Education
· Obtained a bachelor degree in Civil engineering BSc Degree.
· Work experience
· Have at least 2 years’ experience in related field
· Evaluation criteria:
What are the main responsibilities?
· Develops project objectives by reviewing project proposals and plans; conferring with
· Determines project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements; assigning personnel to phases and elements; reviewing bids from
· Determines project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements, and performance standards; completing technical studies; preparing cost
· Confirms product performance by designing and conducting
· Determines project schedule by studying project plan and specifications; calculating time requirements; sequencing project
· Maintains project schedule by monitoring project progress; coordinating activities; resolving
· Controls project plan by reviewing design, specifications, and plan and schedule changes; recommending
· Controls project costs by approving expenditures; administering contractor Prepares project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends; recommending
· Maintains safe and clean working environment by enforcing procedures, rules, and
· Maintains project data base by writing computer programs; entering and backing up
· Maintains product and company reputation by complying with Municipal and state
· Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as
· Experience of working with
· Knowledge of labs and technical specification and reading
Application instructions:
Applicants should submit their P-11 forms to the submission emails before the deadline. Please mention the vacancy number of the position (CTG-UNHAB-CFA (25/04/2019) on the SUBJECT line of the email. Only short-listed candidates whose applications respond to the above criteria will be contacted for an interview.
Submission email:
career.ctg@gmail.com and vacancies@unhabitat-afg.org
Deadline: May 3 , 2019
