Senior Urban Planning Expert

Partner UN-HABITAT- Syria
Job categories Urban Planning/Design
Vacancy code VA/2025/B5104/30201
Department/office MR, AMMMCO, Amman
Duty station Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
Contract type Local ICA Specialist
Contract level LICA Specialist-11
Duration 12 months (Renewable according to budget availability and performance satisfaction)
Application period 21-May-2025 to 04-Jun-2025


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The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future. Its mission is to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all.

Since 2015, UN-Habitat Syria Programme has worked closely with Syrian cities and communities to develop an urban resilience and recovery approach. UN-Habitat supports local authorities and communities (1) to collect better urban data to reach a common understanding on urban recovery needs; (2) to jointly identify neighborhood and municipal area response priorities – from humanitarian, to resilience, to recovery; and (3) to design and implement housing, infrastructure and basic services, urban environment, and urban cultural heritage projects that directly respond to these local priorities.

UN-Habitat Syria currently has offices in Damascus, Homs and Aleppo and plans to open an office in Deir Azzor, The UN-Habitat Syria programme operationalizes projects across Syria.








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