Career pathways / Urban Policy Specialist
How to become a Urban Policy Specialist
Urban policy specialists work on the systems cities run on — housing, transit, climate adaptation, informal settlements. City governments, UN-Habitat and the growing city-network organisations hire this profile globally.
Who hires this role
Employer types: city government · intergovernmental · consultancy
Representative employers: UN-Habitat · C40 Cities · World Resources Institute
Knowledge structure
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Quantitative analysisexpected
Policy & institutionscore requirement
Technical / digitalexpected
Languages & communicationexpected
What to study
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