Municipal Solid Waste Consultant at UN-Habitat

Under the supervision of Associate Officer, Waste Management, the consultant will undertake the following responsibilities;

• Organize and facilitate WaCT training for local authority officers and volunteers.
• Apply WaCT and Waste Flow Diagram (WFD) in collaboration with local authorities and relevant UN-Habitat personnel.
• Organize and facilitate a stakeholders’ workshop inviting all the different stakeholders in the local waste management chain and government of the city.
• Draft the WaCT report based on the local stakeholders' workshop and WaCT Data Collection Application (DCA) and WFD results, highlighting policy intervention and infrastructure investment gaps for recommendations for national legislation reforms.
• Formulate and review WaCT city profile reports for two cities
• Collect 15 best practices on Municipal Solid Waste Management across the globe, following the categories of ACCP Knowledge Hub.
• Provide geospatial evidence for intervention scenarios (e.g. siting future transfer stations and MRFs, identification potential leakage sources) to contribute to the development of the 1st draft of the national policy brief.
• Provide technical inputs to Dar Safi team regarding WP 2: City-level Strategic Plan Development and WP 5 Demonstration as necessary.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree in Urban Planning, Environmental Management, Economic or in a closely related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of two years’ experience in events organization, natural resources, urban planning and solid waste management or a related field is required. Excellent writing and communication skills and the ability to organize and plan events.
• Experience in GIS and the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) is needed.
• Experience in the United Nations or other international development agencies is regarded as an asset.