Project Senior Associate

This role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to UN‑Habitat’s urban recovery and resilience‑building efforts in Aleppo. The Project Senior Associate will support evidence-based planning and implementation by providing technical, logistical, and analytical support across damage assessments, urban profiling, Housing–Land–Property (HLP) documentation, GIS analysis, and coordination with government and community stakeholders. The position plays a key role in ensuring that project activities are effectively delivered, well‑documented, and aligned with recovery priorities.

UN-Habitat’s Syria Country Programme has worked closely with Syrian cities and communities to develop an urban resilience and recovery approach. UN-Habitat supports local authorities and communities to collect better urban data to reach a common understanding of urban recovery needs; jointly identify neighborhood and municipal area response priorities, straddling humanitarian, resilience-building and recovery phases; and 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, Aleppo, and Deir Ezzor, operationalizing projects across the country.

UN-Habitat’s Aleppo hub is responsible for overseeing coordination, partnerships and project implementation in northern Syria. The hub supports recovery planning, rehabilitation of infrastructure, public spaces, housing and public buildings, cultural heritage preservation, strengthening Housing, Land and Property (HLP) rights, and capacity building of local authorities, among other activities.

UN-Habitat’s projects in Syria build on comprehensive multi-sectoral urban analysis and a participatory area-based approach that integrates key considerations such as cultural heritage, gender and social cohesion, among others. This process supports the identification of prioritized recovery interventions which, in turn, support a balanced and sustainable recovery of urban areas and create an enabling environment for returns of displaced populations. The success of the project portfolio builds on the diverse expertise, skills and experience of UN-Habitat’s team of urban specialists.

The purpose of this role is to strengthen UN
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Habitat’s operational and analytical capabilities in Aleppo by supporting the collection, organization, and analysis of urban data; facilitating coordination with partners and authorities; and contributing to the monitoring and documentation of a wide range of recovery-related interventions. The Project Senior Associate ensures effective planning, technical accuracy, and timely implementation of project activities, while supporting broader organizational efforts to advance urban resilience and sustainable recovery in the governorate.

Under the overall supervision of the Deputy Head of...