Call for Experts - Amman Urban Resilience Activity

Research Triangle Institute (RTI) has over 30 years’ experience assisting governments, communities, and the private sector. As a not-for-profit, independent research institute based in North Carolina, USA, RTI has roughly 6,000 employees with global experience implementing international development projects. RTI's Sustainable Growth & Resilience (SG&R) technical unit within the International Development Group brings together RTI experts and capabilities across food security, agriculture, energy, environment, water, governance, and economic opportunity. SG&R will leverage RTI's experience designing and delivering multisectoral programming and technical solutions to respond to climate change, build resilience, and promote economic growth around the world.

SG&R’s Global Agriculture, Water, and Environment division is working to mitigate and address the impacts of climate change and build resilience in impacted communities through policy and governance support, capacity building for local actors, and support for responding to natural and human-caused disasters.

Project Description

USAID/Jordan is contemplating a potential activity focused on improving local governance and the enabling environment for urban climate resilience and decarbonization in the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), focusing on interventions with high adaptation benefits. The potential activity may improve data-driven policy-making, planning, and budgeting and may include interventions focusing on disaster risk reduction resulting from floods and extreme heat events, investment and access to climate funds, enhanced participation of local communities and the private sector, and targeted urban resilience infrastructure work.

Responsibilities

Candidates should be fluent in English and have a minimum of 10 years of experience. We are currently accepting CVs/resumes for technical experts and specialists with experience in the one or more of the following areas:

Qualifications

Water and sanitation

Water resource management

Urban planning

Transit oriented development

Urban Mobility

Solid waste management

Recycling

Energy Efficiency

Circular economy

Municipal finance

Climate finance

Climate resilient planning

Disaster and climate resilience

Communications and knowledge management

Monitoring and evaluation

Human Resources

Regular Full-Time