United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), is the agency for human settlements and sustainable urbanization. It is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. This position is located in the Planning, Finance & Economy Section of the Urban Practices Branch within the Global Solutions Division at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. The Global Solutions Division (GSD) is responsible for providing programmatic direction for UN-Habitat and is responsible and accountable for the programmatic delivery of the Strategic Plan. The Division leads the tools and methodology production and the integration of the various substantive competencies towards effective delivery of the Strategic Plan and the mandate of UN-Habitat. It provides substantive training to staff members and supports capacity development of Member States and partners. The Urban Practices Branch (UPB) is the tools and methodology production and skills center of the UN-Habitat, that develops normative guidance and cutting-edge tools through communities of urban practice. It provides technical and policy advice approaches and methodologies to Country Offices, government and partners and mainstreams them throughout the programme portfolio. It also ensures that the cross-cutting area of safety and the social inclusion issues of human rights; gender; children, youth and older persons; and disability are developed and mainstreamed across the Agency. The Planning, Finance & Economy Section (PFES) is responsible for coordinating the Agency’s substantive, normative and operational work on various dimensions of planning, finance and economy. The Planning, Finance & Economy Section aims to develop, document, pilot/test and disseminate planning policies, norms, standards, tools, methodologies, regulatory frameworks, operating procedures and practices at global, regional, national and sub-national levels in support of (a) urban and territorial planning at all scales including urban design and public space design; (b) urban finance (municipal finance and urban development/projects finance); and (c) local economic development. The Section also aims to identify the strategic challenges and opportunities which inform planning strategies for settlement affected by the conflict induced migration. The significant part of this work is focused on the promoting sustainable urban planning for the refugee settlements, supporting local governments and humanitarian partners to develop the “New Way of Working” which aims at better coordination between humanitarian and development actors in pursuit of “enhancing the protection of persons of concern and building measurable progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.” The Section contributes to respond to humanitarian crisis in urban areas and to the development of approaches in the humanitarian-development nexus. The focus of the job is the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes, operations and other activities in an assigned functional area. The incumbent will report to the Chief of the Planning Finance and Economy Section and will perform the following duties: