Urban Finance Consultant

UN-Habitat Urban Finance Consultant

The consultant will be responsible for the following specific duties:

• Capital Infrastructure Stocktaking & Budget Tagging:

• Conduct a thorough review of Moscow’s public finance registry to compile and systematically classify capital infrastructure investments executed over the last three (3) financial years.

• Spatial Finance Integration & Geo-Referencing:

• Coordinate with relevant municipal departments to identify the precise geographical locations of major capital assets.

• Structure this financial data into a clean, geo-referenced spatial matrix to enable thematic mapping.

• Financial Heatmap Modeling & Gap Assessment:

• Analyze expenditure concentrations to identify priority spatial patterns, infrastructure delivery mechanisms, and existing financing gaps relative to SDG implementation targets.

• Drafting and Stakeholder Validation Support:

• Prepare high-quality technical inputs, graphs, tables, and narrative texts for the financial sections of the VLR and its background SDG Discussion Papers.

• Refine all data layers based on feedback from UN-Habitat review teams and Government counterparts.

Qualifications/special skills

• Academic Qualification: An advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in Economics, Public Policy, Public Finance, Political Science, Development Studies or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree, combined with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience, may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of two (5) years of relevant work experience in the field of public finance, public policy, urban governance research is required;
• Strong analytical skills with the capacity to synthesize complex municipal financial datasets and translate them into policy-relevant documents and visual heatmaps is required
• Experience working on Own Source Revenue and/or municipal finance is required;
• Relevant experience in working in the Russian Federation and Moscow is desirable;
• Experience in SDG-related work, urban sustainability reporting, or VLR/VNR development is desirable;
• Working experience with international development agencies such as the United Nations is desirable.

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