Overview
The consultant will provide technical support for the implementation of a project focused on Social Housing Technical Assistance (ATHIS), ensuring participatory processes and inclusiveness.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical support for participatory processes, guaranteeing inclusiveness, representativeness, gender sensitivity, and accountability.
- Adapt UN-Habitat’s Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) methodology to the context of Social Housing Technical Assistance (ATHIS) in Brazil and for partners from the Global South.
- Provide technical support and guidance for conducting workshops to develop a participatory, gender-oriented methodology for assessing ATHIS demands.
- Develop a methodological guide systematizing participatory tools and methods for demand collection, analysis, and categorization in housing and ATHIS.
- Lead the process of defining priority communities for ATHIS interventions, considering vulnerable groups.
- Engage directly with social and community leaders to ensure legitimacy and depth of housing demand assessments.
- Provide technical support for the development and implementation of a communication and mobilization plan.
- Organize and conduct events and information sessions to raise awareness of the ATHIS Law.
- Provide support and technical guidance for conducting a Global Forum in São Paulo.
- Conduct a mapping of relevant professionals and institutions involved in social housing programs.
- Provide support for the creation of a collaboration platform for ATHIS professionals from the Global South.
- Provide support to the development of a sustainability plan for the ATHIS network.
- Participate in field work missions as required.
Required Experience
- A minimum of three (3) years of experience in the development and implementation of participatory processes and community relationships is required.
- Experience in capacity building is required.
- Experience with social housing is desirable.
- Experience with South-South Cooperation is desirable.
- Experience in the social area and in coordinating fieldwork, preferably in the public sector, is desirable.
- Previous experience working in the United Nations is desirable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Urbanism, Geography, Social Sciences, Social Work, Anthropology, Law, or related fields is required or additional three (3) years of relevant experience to the post, beyond the requirement.
- Postgraduate degree (Lato Sensu or Stricto Sensu) in Architecture and Urbanism, Geography, Sociology, Law, Social Work, Public Policy, Social Sciences, or related fields is desirable.
