Programme Support Associate – Climate Resilience and Just Transition

Supports UN-Habitat South Africa’s municipal climate-resilience, climate-finance and just-transition work. The UN Volunteer coordinates programme activities and stakeholders, researches urban resilience, tracks results, maintains knowledge products and records, and assists workshops, communications and administration.

Department: South Africa Urban Resilience Portfolio

• Support urban-resilience, climate-adaptation, finance and just-transition initiatives
• Assist vulnerability assessments and urban-resilience action plans
• Coordinate municipal meetings, consultations, workshops and programme logistics
• Research climate resilience, sustainable urban development and disaster-risk reduction
• Track activities, milestones, outputs and donor-reporting inputs
• Maintain programme files, records, lessons learned and knowledge products
• Coordinate municipalities, government, civil society and development partners
• Support outreach, travel, procurement and administrative documentation

• Education in environmental management, environmental science, geography, urban and regional planning, GIS, development studies or a related field; relevant diploma holders are considered
• Interest or experience in climate resilience, climate adaptation, disaster-risk reduction, sustainable urban development or environmental management
• Project-coordination, programme-administration, stakeholder-engagement and research skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• English language ability

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