Duties and Responsibilities forUrban Health Expert 

• Under the overall supervision of the Programme Management Officer, the consultant will be responsible for the following duties:
• Support the Young Gamechangers Initiative Globally and in the pilot cities;
• Provide urban health inputs to ongoing and future projects;
• Draft project proposals for new programme implementation;
• Contribute to resource mobilisation and grant application.;
• Seek out new partnerships and collaborations;
• Develop urban health normative documents;
• Provide critical analysis of existing urban health documents and instruments;
• Provide inputs to guides, policy briefs and normative outputs;
• Provide urban health inputs into PFES publications and documents;
• Mainstream urban health throughout the Planning Finance Economy Section and UN-Habitat; and Attend meetings, missions and conferences within and outside UN-Habitat on behalf of the Urban Health team and Planning Finance Economy Section.

Qualifications/special skills

• Education; University degree in public health, environmental studies, medicine, sustainable development, urban planning, or related fields relevant to urban development and urban health is required.
• Working Experience; A minimum of 2 years of experience in project management and coordination in public health, global health, urban health, sustainable development, clinical practice, health systems management, urban policy, environmental health science, or research.
• Experience in research related to the urban environment and/or sustainability and the use of evidence-based knowledge for programmed development is required.
• Experience in writing reports, documents and correspondence is required