Project Management Support - Advisor (International Expert State Cadastre)

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is the operational arm of the United Nations, dedicated to implementing projects globally. This role seeks a Project Management Support - Advisor (International Expert State Cadastre). This role involves providing high-level technical expertise and project management support, specifically focusing on the State Cadastre Agency (SCA). The core objective is to conduct comprehensive business process reviews, advise on digitalization, ensure integrity measures are integrated into land transaction processes, and support critical contract implementation related to cadastre modernization.

Functions / Key Results Expected

1. Conducting a Comprehensive Business Process Review (BPR) and Service Delivery Mechanisms of the State Cadastre Agency:

• Mapping and validating major data flows related to public service delivery by SCA, including incoming requests, application types, data processing requirements, and data shared with other governmental or private partners.
• Identifying inefficiencies, bottlenecks, risks, and areas for improvement in current practices, including an assessment of service standards.
• Designing and documenting improved business processes that incorporate digitalization opportunities, with consideration for emerging technologies such as blockchain where relevant.
• Assessing how existing processes align with anti-corruption safeguards and integrity objectives and actively integrating integrity measures into the redesigned processes, identifying vulnerabilities and recommending appropriate control mechanisms to mitigate corruption risks and enhance accountability, transparency, and efficiency.

2. Proposal Development for Revising Key Business Processes and Procedures:

Based on the review, contribute to the development of the proposal for revising key business processes and procedures related to land transactions within the cadastral Business Value Chain (BVC), with a focus on improving SCA’s internal workflows.

• Categorization of cadastral transaction processes and data flows and prioritization of the key business processes.
• Enhancing internal guidelines and operational manuals for priority procedures, and providing recommendations for aligning IT-related business processes with digital transformation efforts.
• Defining a validation process with key stakeholders, and outlining an action plan for implementation.

3. Contract Implementation Support:

UNOPS will tender several activities through public procurement. The expert will be responsible for:

• Advising the Project Manager (PM) in the preparation of Terms of References (ToR), participating in the evaluation of tenders and advising during the contracts execution related to digitization of state cadastre maps; data improvement; quality control and first time registration.
• Defining proposals for quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) mechanisms for monitoring and implementing contracts under the project.

4. Monitoring, Evaluation and Performance Measurement:

Advise SCA on performance assessment, monitoring and evaluation in the following areas:

• Developing a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework for the business process review and development of key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Mapping data sources, responsibilities and reporting mechanisms for KPI tracking.
• Supporting integration of the M&E framework into the BPR Action Plan and implementation sequencing.
• Providing recommendations on the use of KPIs for ongoing performance monitoring and future reform phases.

5. Knowledge Management and Capacity Building:

• Providing technical inputs to working groups set up during the course of the project.
• Providing advice for the provision of targeted training and capacity building activities on business processes and internal procedures to effectively implement new technologies, procedures and digital workflows.
• Identifying best practices at the EU level in view of knowledge transfer and study visits organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) preferably in Geospatial Science, Geography, Land Administration, Urban Planning, Engineering, or related fields with 9 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above or related fields with 7 years of relevant experience is required.