Senior Professional Officer: Urban Futures

The successful candidate must have a strong background in sustainable development, systems thinking, socio-technical systems, and/or working at the city and city-region level, while also being able to effectively and creatively communicate technical subjects to diverse audiences. Demonstrated experience and interest in the following areas is required:

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The successful candidate must have a strong background in sustainable development, systems thinking, socio-technical systems, and/or working at the city and city-region level, while also being able to effectively and creatively communicate technical subjects to diverse audiences. Demonstrated experience and interest in the following areas is required:

  • Futures Literacy, Anticipatory Governance, Futures and Foresight Methodologies
  • Facilitation and Storytelling
  • African Urbanisation Trends & Urban strategies; Sustainable Cities
  • Systems thinking and Systems approaches
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Advocating for accelerated action at COP28

Our cities and regions across the continent are gearing up to make their voices heard loud and clear at COP28, through a range of interventions, stressing the urgent need to scale up a rigorous all-of-economy, all-of-society approach which leads to urgent and significant climate action this decade.