Location: | London, Hybrid |
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Salary: | £36,396 |
Hours: | Part Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 13th March 2024 |
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Closes: | 11th April 2024 |
Job Ref: | B04-04829 |
About us
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) at University College London (UCL) is an international centre specialising in academic teaching, practical training, research, and consultancy in urban and regional development and planning. It is concerned with promoting sustainable development, understanding rapid urbanisation, and encouraging innovation in the policy, planning and management responses to the economic, social, and environmental development of cities and regions, especially in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
More information on the DPU can be found here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/development/bartlett-development-planning-unit
About the role
Based in DPU’s vibrant hive of activity, a part-time Project Coordinator is required to work in a NERC-funded project “Listen, Learn & Leap: Co-producing Equitable and Sustainable Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience in East African Cities”.
This three-year UKRI funded action-research project will explore the socio-political factors that support the uptake, sustainability and institutionalisation of NbS in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam with the overall aim to foster cross-sectoral municipal and regional dialogue and knowledge exchange between community-based organisations, civil society and institutional actors to advance equitable urban climate resilience in East Africa and beyond.
The post holder will support all workstreams of the project. ‘Listen, Learn & Leap’ will be delivered in partnership with five partner organisations across Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, the United States, and the UK.
T he Project Coordinator will lead in administrative management of the project in its different stages and will work to give visibility to the project to different audiences, including, but not limited to, academics, policymakers, practitioners, and international development agencies. This is an exciting opportunity to manage a large international research project at the crossroads of transformative research, capacity building, and experimentation with localised and inclusive NbS initiatives.
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