he United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), is the agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all. The Advocacy and Campaign Unit leads agency-wide advocacy activities and campaigns to support UN-Habitat’s vision, objectives and solutions-oriented culture, as well as leverage partnerships. It is based in the External Relations and Partnerships Branch, located in the Division of External Relations, Strategy, Knowledge and Innovation. The Unit’s objectives are to raise awareness on sustainable urbanization and engage partners in implementing the New Urban Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals and other internationally agreed related goals in the context of the UN Decade of Action to 2030. The Unit develops and implements advocacy and campaign activities that help promote agreed thematic priorities of UN-Habitat. Team members work collaboratively with substantive units to deploy meaningful and effective advocacy while leveraging a wide range of partner organizations through a client-oriented approach to support advocacy and increase the visibility of UN-Habitat. Key functions include: conceptualization of advocacy and campaigns; campaign implementation and monitoring; partners’ mobilization and engagement. In 2025, UN-Habitat will launch the Azerbaijan Urban Campaign (AUC), designed to engage Azerbaijani-based partner organizations on the lead to the 13rd session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) to be held in Baku on 18-22 May 2026. Under the overall supervision of the Head of Advocacy and Campaigns Unit, the incumbent will be required to perform the following functions:

•  Prepare the partners and events database and related roadmap for the Azerbaijan Urban Campaign (AUC)
•  Manage and update the AUC partners and event database with contents on solutions, events results and speakers
•  Prepare web-based content for the AUC: save the dates and other announcements, stories on results and solutions for the AUC website as well as the WUF13 communication channels
•  Prepare and manage social media content for the AUC eqYvKzW u3CT8
•  Prepare and update materials, toolkits and Trello boards for the partners
•  Prepare AUC partners meetings, presentations, minutes and outcomes reports
•  Prepare key messages for the AUC
•  Support in the dissemination of WUF13 key messages through the AUC
•  Prepare a series of speakers profiles identified in the AUC for consideration as speakers for the 13rd session of the World Urban Forum
•  Handles independently a wide range of complex information requests and inquiries; responds, or drafts responses, to a diverse range of questions from the AUC partners.
•  Ensures time keeping of current tasks.

Qualifications/special skills

Advanced University degree in urbanization and human settlements or any other relevant field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. A minimum of two (2) years of experience in urban issues and communication is required. Experience of the Azerbaijan context is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.