National Consultant on Infrastructure Asset Management

Job Description

Result of Service

• Successful implementation of project activities in close coordination with government officials from The Bahamas, other stakeholders, international consultants, and UN DESA staff.

Work Location

• Home-based

Expected Duration

• Consultant engagement expected as soon as possible through 30 April 2027

Organizational Setting

• Located in the International Tax and Development Cooperation Branch (ITDCB) of the Financing for Sustainable Development Office (FSDO), Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).
• FSDO mission: advance policy and action on financing for sustainable development to support Member States in achieving the 2030 Agenda and Addis Ababa Action Agenda.
• Project: “Boosting the resilience of infrastructure assets and planned large-scale infrastructure investments in SIDS through risk-informed infrastructure asset management policies and practices” in The Bahamas.
• Goal: strengthen local government capacity and train public asset managers on risk-informed, data-driven Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM).
• Consultant role: provide local contextualization, facilitate stakeholder engagement, and support design, implementation, and follow-up of all IAM project activities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and implement diagnostic activities in six local governments:
• • Liaise with focal points to confirm participating entities and contacts.
  • Develop implementation schedule and stakeholder engagement plan.
  • Review sectoral or national frameworks relevant to IAM.
• Apply the UN IAM Diagnostic Tool in selected local governments:
  • Support self-assessments, conduct on-site interviews and document reviews.
  • Guide staff in identifying current practices, roles, systems, and gaps across policy, finance, climate risks, and service delivery.
  • Ensure participation from technical, financial, and leadership personnel.
• Analyze and prepare Asset Management Profiles:
  • Develop findings and recommendations from diagnostic data.
  • Draft customized 30-page profiles summarizing practices, strengths, gaps, and priority reforms.
  • Present draft profiles for review and feedback.
• Provide input to training content:
  • Review training materials and coordinate with international consultant on delivery plans.
  • Identify national policies, strategies, data systems, and institutional arrangements relevant to IAM.
  • Compile local case studies, examples, and challenges; integrate national references into materials.
• Deliver and co-facilitate two in-country workshops:
  • Introduce national institutional, legal, and policy frameworks.
  • Provide local examples of IAM application and challenges.
  • Facilitate discussions, Q&A sessions, and peer learning.
  • Assist in interpreting technical content and guide practical exercises (AMAPs, data challenges, climate risk, portfolio management).
• Support implementation of AMAPs:
  • Visit participating entities to review and refine AMAPs.
  • Coordinate pre-visit planning and prepare tailored support checklists.
  • Conduct meetings with leadership and staff to validate priority actions and assess feasibility, data quality, and institutional roles.
  • Provide technical advice on operationalizing AMAP pillars and integrating actions into budgets and workplans.
  • Facilitate working sessions to assign responsibilities and draft mission notes summarizing findings and next steps.
• Support workshops on national enabling environment:
  • Collaborate with international instructor to adapt training materials.
  • Review national and subnational policy, legal, and institutional frameworks.
  • Identify government strategies, plans, or legislative texts relevant to IAM.
  • Select examples of national asset management policies for discussion.
  • Engage key stakeholders to ensure balanced participation.
• Implement and co-facilitate workshops on the national enabling environment:
  • Present the state of IAM policies and common implementation gaps.
  • Facilitate breakout sessions on policy design, alignment with national strategies, and climate resilience integration.
  • Guide participants in mapping institutional environments and identifying missing enabling factors.
  • Translate international practices into locally relevant approaches.
  • Support post-workshop follow-up through feedback, recommendations, and contributions to the final report.

Qualifications / Special Skills

• Advanced degree in engineering, business, project management, public administration, urban planning, economics, or related field required.
• Bachelor’s degree with two additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in infrastructure, IAM, or urban development.
• Demonstrated expertise in asset inventories, lifecycle planning, service delivery, public sector investment planning, or institutional capacity development.
• Familiarity with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and UN IAM tools is desirable.
• Knowledge of global asset management standards and GIS is desirable.
• Knowledge of The Bahamas public sector and infrastructure systems required.

Languages

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English required.

Additional Information

• Locally recruited position open to Bahamas nationals and individuals with valid residence status permitting employment in The Bahamas.

Deadline : Dec 24, 2025

About the Organization

The Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat is a vital interface between global policies in the economic, social and environmental spheres and national action. The Department works in three main interlinked areas: it compiles, generates and analyses a wide range of economic, social and environmental data and information on which Member States of the United Nations draw to review common problems and to take stock of policy options; it facilitates the negotiations of Member States in many intergovernmental bodies on joint courses of action to address ongoing or emerging global challenges; and it advises interested Governments on the ways and means of translating policy frameworks developed in United Nations conferences and summits into programmes at the country level and, through technical assistance, helps build national capacities.