Mission and objectives

UN-Habitat, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable and resilient towns and cities. It is the focal point agency for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system. UN-Habitat envisions well-planned, well-governed and efficient cities and towns, with adequate housing, infrastructure and universal access to employment and basic services such as water, energy, and sanitation. Responding to crisis and post-crisis context is part of UN-Habitat’s mandate and strategic plan. In Ukraine, UN-Habitat is supporting national and subnational governments in their recovery efforts, linking short-term reconstruction needs to longer-term resilience solutions. At the local level, UN-Habitat provides support to recovery planning efforts of local governments through its Urban Lab established in Kyiv. The programme also strives to increase Ukrainian urban planning and design capacities, through support to academia, think tanks and practitioners, among others. At the national level, UN-Habitat provides support to the government of Ukraine, and more specifically to the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, on the development of national policies and instruments that guide regional and local governments’ recovery. UN-Habitat’s engagement towards a sustainable recovery of cities in Ukraine is underpinned by its efforts to strengthen the digital and data capacities of national, regional and local government entities to improve decision-making and enable implementation of climate resilient recovery planning, through UNITAC, a collaboration between UN-Habitat, the UN Office for Information and Communication Technologies (OICT) and the HafenCity University (HCU).

Context

The Tech Volunteers for Resilience (Tech4R) initiative, co-led by UNDP ICPSD and UNV, mobilizes skilled digital volunteers to co-create open-source digital tools that strengthen resilience, enhance transparency, and support data-driven decision-making. In collaboration with UN-Habitat Ukraine, Tech4R is developing a GIS-Based Recovery Dashboard for Borodianka hromada (Kyiv Oblast). The tool will consolidate reconstruction project data, environmental risks, and spatial layers into a single interactive system to improve recovery planning and monitoring. The Data Cleaning & Quality Assurance Volunteers will play a key role in preparing the datasets for integration into the dashboard by cleaning, validating, and standardizing data to ensure its reliability and usability.

Task Description

The Volunteers will: • Review raw datasets (Excel, CSV, shapefiles) for completeness, accuracy, and consistency. • Identify and correct duplicates, missing values, and format inconsistencies. • Standardize project naming conventions, location data, and sectoral classifications. • Validate geocoded data and verify metadata entries. • Collaborate with GIS and Dashboard teams to ensure all datasets are compatible for integration. • Perform quality assurance checks on finalized layers and project attributes. • Document the data cleaning procedures for replication and transparency.

Competencies and values

• Accountability • Adaptability and flexibility • Creativity • Judgement and decision-making • Planning and organising • Professionalism • Self-management

Living conditions and remarks

This is a volunteer assignment, not employment. By sharing your time, energy, and talents, you can support communities in need and become part of something greater than yourself — a global movement for peace, development and humanitarian aid. Volunteering strengthens trust, solidarity, and reciprocity among citizens, and it can promote a sense of belonging and purpose. This is an unpaid volunteer assignment. UN Volunteer entitlement for this assignment: - Private insurance for the duration of the assignment: Health, dental, life and dismemberment (coverage by CIGNA) Other benefits include: - International collaboration and mentorship - Skills development in real-world, UN-driven projects - Certificate of Service and exposure to international work - Notes: This UN Volunteer assignment will support the Tech4R programme. The Tech Volunteers for Resilience (Tech4R) programme mobilizes skilled digital volunteers to co-create open-source solutions that strengthen disaster resilience. UN Volunteers for this particular assignment are governed by the particular conditions set out in their offers and contracts.