United Nations Human Settlements Programme Incremental Housing Upgrading & Finance Expert Jobs in Kenya







Duties and Responsibilities To achieve the above-mentioned goal, the assignment includes the following specific objectives:

I. Responsible for the integration of various study components to facilitate the delivery of the PINUA Implementation Strategy.

Managing the Expert integration sub-team.

II. Informing key assumptions for financial modeling, ensuring alignment with local needs and constraints.


III. Consolidating the Developing financial models for pilots on the incremental housing and social rental housing project highlighting:


- Financial drivers for the supply and demand sides of the market


- Financing products analysis for supply and demand sides of the market

- Special Purpose Vehicles and considerations for community funds to enter transactions - Financial sources mapping both supply and demand sides

- Community engagement workshops to explore financing pathways

- An analysis of the financial performance of each financing scenario

IV. Conducting an Interest differential study to support transactions of the Affordable Housing Board where the consultant:


- Defines the interest differential financing ecosystem for the Affordable Housing Board projects

- Explores pathways for interest differential financing that PINUA can support


- Explores financing sources/ partnerships supported by PINUA to advance the Affordable Housing Board’s interest differential strategies

- Propose financing matching and structural requirements to meet the interest differential strategies

V. Proposing a standardized generic template for a financial model that can be replicated across PINUA sites and for use by the Slum Upgrading Department at the State Department for Housing and tools that support investment sizing for households and projects.


VI. Proposing strategies where PINUA exits the Affordable Housing Board across projects through approaches such as setting up a community revolving fund that allows for capital repurposing in new projects.

VII. Supporting the small community contractors signed up by the affordable housing programme to supply housing components but have no business structures to enable them access bank
funding by developing innovative financing mechanisms like pooled funds, microloans, and public-private partnerships to enable small-scale developers to access affordable credit.


VIII. Coordinating results from other expects and undertaking mentoring of two young professionals through the delivery of all the outputs.


Qualifications/special skills

  • Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Public Administration, Project Management, or related field is required.


  • A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience housing finance, participatory slum upgrading, urban management, urban basic infrastructure and services development, operation and maintenance and municipal finance in the context of human settlement/ urban development sectors is required.

  • A minimum of two (2) years of progressively responsible experience in affordable housing programmes with a focus on finance proposals within the African context is required. Understanding Previous experience in resource mobilisation and development of national and global financing tools in developing countries is desirable.

  • Understanding of the National and County Governments development priorities and urbanization dynamics in affordable housing programmes and initiatives is desirable.

    Languages

  • English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, fluency in English (both oral and written) is required. Knowledge of local language is an added advantage.

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; United Nations Human Settlements Programme Incremental Housing Upgrading & Finance Expert Jobs in Kenya

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