UN-HABITAT Land Administration Expert Jobs in Kenya

UN-HABITAT Land Administration Expert Jobs in Kenya

Background

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the United Nations agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities to provide adequate shelter for all. UN-Habitat helps the urban poor by transforming cities into safer, healthier, greener places with better opportunities where everyone can live with dignity.

It works with organizations at every level, including all spheres of government, civil society and the private sector, to help build, manage, plan and finance sustainable urban development. The Land Housing and Shelter Section (LHSS) is responsible for providing professional skills and developing normative knowledge and products that support a) the equitable supply of serviced land at scale; b) efficient and effective land management systems; c) freedom from arbitrary or forced eviction and the protection of security of tenure for all; d) the progressive achievement of universal access to housing meeting the requirements for an adequate standard of living; e) participatory urban regeneration and slum upgrading initiatives.

It provides technical and policy advice approaches and methodologies for government and partners and mainstreams them throughout the programmed portfolio. It also ensures that the cross-cutting areas of safety and the social inclusion issues of human rights; gender; children, youth, and older persons; and disability are developed and mainstreamed across the Agency. Under LHSS, three global programs, Participatory Slum Upgrading Program (PSUP), General Housing and the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) are coordinated.

The Global Land Tool Network, as facilitated by UN-Habitat, is an alliance of international, regional and national partners working together to "securing land and property rights for all" through the development of pro-poor, fit-for-purpose and gender responsive land tools and approaches within the continuum of land rights framework.

UN-Habitat and GLTN have been supporting Nepal on the implementation of national land reforms, in collaboration with the Government of Nepal and local implementing partner NGOs, including the development of a national land policy, improvement of earthquake recovery and resilience, and tenure security of affected communities using fit-for-purpose solutions under the “Support to Land Reform Initiative in Nepal’ project since 2016.

These efforts resulted in the development and adoption of the Nepal’s National Land Policy in 2019 and legislation reforms (amendment of the Land Act 1964 and the Land Rules 1964), facilitating actions towards the improvement of tenure security through the registration of land rights and issuance of land titles to households in the select municipalities, including the vulnerable.

In line with this, UN-Habitat is looking for a land administration expert to provide substantive support in the implementation of GLTN country strategies and support the development, testing and implementation of pro-poor and gender responsive land tools.

The four-year project builds on the comparative strengths of UN-Habitat and GLTN’s previous and ongoing engagements in Nepal on sustainable human settlements and identifies the strong linkage between climate change and land governance, – considering Nepal’s high vulnerability to climate change-, and is built on the premise that improved land tenure security must be taken into consideration as an important enabler of climate-change adaptation.

Responsibilities

Under the overall supervision of the Land, Housing and Shelter Section Chief, and in close collaboration with the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UN-Habitat country office Nepal, and the GLTN country engagement team, the consultant will perform the following tasks and responsibilities:

On land tools implementation and technical backstopping

Technical support in customization, adaptation, and deployment of STDM and the review and assessment of approaches and methodologies for effective migration and integrity of data.

Providing advisory support on tools requirements, enhancement and integration with other tools and processes, including inputs on data collection tools and methodologies to be applied in the select project.

Contributing to technical inputs on the development of the Nepal land information policy support strategy

including other strategies for upscaling of land tools and approaches in Nepal.

Provision of technical inputs and review of baseline information in the development of local Land Use Plan framework, including the integration of GLTN tools and approaches (STDM, TRLUP, PILaR) in the project sites

Strategic guidance in strengthening application of GLTN tools and other tools for climate smart practices in the select project sites. On capacity development

Providing technical support to local partners in Nepal on the implementation of priority GLTN pro-poor and gender responsive land tools and approaches related to the Nepal project.

Facilitating capacity building learning events in Nepal to project stakeholders to implement inclusive, gender responsive and fit-for- purpose land tools.

Capacity development of project stakeholders on efficient land management and implementation of land use planning including on priority GLTN tools and approaches

Provide technical inputs on the development of integrated Risk Sensitive Land Use Plan, and implementation plan including in the development of by-laws.

Provide technical inputs on tenure security documents, templates and formats based on data and tools applied at the local level.

Participate in missions to Nepal on capacity building, including partner-led capacity building events and provision of mission synthesis to stakeholders for record and for follow-up where necessary. On knowledge management

Providing substantive support in the development, refinement and reviewing of project material documents, and strategies related to the project, including on strategic research for knowledge sharing and dissemination at the local, provincial and the national levels.

Provide technical support in the over-all knowledge management, and communications related to the use of the STDM and produce the necessary reports as appropriate.

Contribute to the preparation of various written outputs, e.g. conference background papers, analytical notes, sections of reports and studies, input to publications, etc in collaboration with country implementing partners and relevant stakeholders.

Technical support in documenting field experiences, partnerships and programme delivery including lessons learned and emerging outcomes or impacts. On partnership coordination

Participate in the Project Technical Working Group meetings and other related meetings. On project management

Project management technical support including the monitoring and evaluation of the project and assessing project performance for related project results.

Contribute to the quality control of outputs and activities undertaken by local partners and providing recommendations on procedures and processes for tools implementation. On supporting implementation of GLTN phase 4

Provide technical support to other GLTN priority countries including Somalia and Kenya related to the review of land information system and the use of STDM.

Contributing to GLTN strategic activities on tool development and engagement in land administration issues.

Contributing to programme development and resource mobilization efforts related to land administration work at global, regional, and country level in collaboration with partners.

Qualifications/special skills

An advanced university degree in one of the following fields: Geomatics, Land Administration, Land Management, or a field directly related to the assignment is required.

5 years of working experience in addressing land sector issues in developing countries, particularly in regard to land administration and information, is required.

Advanced knowledge and experience in Land Information Systems, digital mapping, and participatory enumeration methods is desirable

Knowledge on land-related tools development, capacity development, project management, partnership building and knowledge management

Ability to write technical documentation is desirable

Languages

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of French is an asset.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UN-HABITAT Land Administration Expert Jobs in Kenya

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