HLP Project Associate – Northwest Syria

The HLP Project Associate will provide expert support to UN-Habitat’s Housing, Land and Property (HLP) projects in Northwest Syria, lead coordination of the sub-national HLP Technical Working Group (TWG), and support project design and implementation to improve tenure security and urban recovery in the region.

Responsibilities

• Support the operational and technical activities of the sub-national HLP Technical Working Group (TWG) in Northwest Syria.
• Coordinate, organize, and facilitate HLP sub-national TWG meetings and represent the group in relevant coordination forums, clusters, and working groups.
• Support the operationalization and maintenance of TWG tools and archiving systems, ensuring proper information and data management.
• Facilitate HLP mainstreaming sessions and targeted training on HLP issues, policies, and tools for TWG members and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate identification of priority HLP advocacy issues and contribute to preparation of advocacy briefs, legal analyses, and research.
• Monitor, document, and report emerging HLP issues regularly using various sources.
• Contribute to needs assessments and development of HLP profiles of selected areas.
• Support analysis of HLP challenges and opportunities related to housing recovery, return and reintegration, and urban recovery.
• Participate in design and development of HLP projects or components within broader urban recovery and housing programmes.
• Ensure HLP projects and activities are implemented in line with approved proposals and donor requirements.
• Support integration of HLP considerations into urban recovery planning and housing reconstruction initiatives.
• Contribute to strengthening land administration and land governance systems.
• Support monitoring of project targets and progress and provide regular progress updates and reports.
• Provide legal and technical support to HLP projects, including conducting or supervising HLP due diligence processes.
• Perform any other tasks relevant to the position as requested.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, law, social sciences, political sciences, project management or other relevant fields.
• Training or certification in HLP or land administration-related field (desired).
• Minimum of three (3) years of progressive experience in housing, land and property (HLP), land governance, legal analysis, urban planning, or related fields in humanitarian, early recovery, or development contexts.
• Experience managing projects or programmes, including assessments, reporting, and coordination with government and humanitarian actors, ideally related to HLP.
• Professional experience with international organizations related to HLP, urban recovery and/or sector coordination (desired).
• Good understanding of the Syrian legal and institutional framework related to HLP rights, land administration, and property documentation (desired).
• Knowledge of international HLP frameworks (desired).
• Skills in data analysis and reporting for evidence-based programming (desired).
• Fluent Arabic language proficiency required.
• Intermediate English language proficiency required.

Skills

• Housing Land Property Law
• Land Governance
• Legal Analysis
• Urban Planning
• Project Management
• Assessment and Reporting
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Data Analysis
• Evidence Based Programming
• Syrian legal frameworks
• Property Documentation
• HLP Frameworks
• Program Coordination

Languages

Arabic, English