Municipal Planning / Cultural Heritage and Tourism Specialist

Join the Sustainable Research and Development Center as a Municipal Planning / Cultural Heritage and Tourism Specialist, focusing on inclusive economic growth and cultural heritage.

• Provide technical expertise on municipal planning, local development, cultural heritage, and tourism throughout the evaluation.
• Review programme approaches related to cultural heritage promotion, tourism planning, municipal capacity-building, and local economic development.
• Assess the relevance and effectiveness of programme support to municipal institutions and local stakeholders.
• Evaluate approaches to strengthening tangible and intangible cultural heritage and integrating heritage assets into local development and tourism planning.
• Assess the quality and usefulness of training, tools, case studies, guidance, and capacity-building provided to municipal and local stakeholders.
• Examine the application of gender-responsive urban and tourism planning approaches, gender-sensitive indicators, monitoring frameworks, and gender-responsive budgeting.
• Assess institutional ownership and the likelihood that programme-supported approaches and tools will continue to be used after project completion.
• Review opportunities for integrating programme approaches into future municipal strategic planning.
• Conduct interviews and consultations with municipal representatives, tourism actors, heritage institutions, civil society, private sector stakeholders, and other relevant actors.
• Contribute to analysis of tourism value chains and linkages between women-led enterprises, cultural heritage, and local economic opportunities.
• Assess opportunities for scaling, replication, or adaptation of programme approaches in other locations.
• Contribute to preparation of findings, conclusions, lessons learned, and practical recommendations.
• Support development of recommendations related to sustainability, institutionalisation, partnerships, and future programming.

• University degree in urban planning, local development, cultural heritage, tourism management, architecture, urban studies, public administration, or another relevant field.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following:
• Local development planning;
• Cultural heritage preservation and promotion;
• Tourism planning;
• Municipal capacity-building;
• Urban development;
• Sustainable local economic development.
• Experience working with municipalities, local authorities, cultural heritage institutions, tourism stakeholders, or community-based development initiatives.
• Strong understanding of heritage-based local economic development and destination development.
• Knowledge of participatory planning and stakeholder engagement approaches.
• Knowledge of inclusive tourism, gender-responsive planning, cultural heritage management, and sustainable local economic development is a strong advantage.
• Experience conducting assessments, consultations, research, monitoring, or evaluations in relevant sectors.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, communication, and report-writing skills.
• Experience in Jordan, particularly with municipal, cultural heritage, or tourism development, is highly desirable.
• Experience with internationally funded development programmes is an advantage.