Current Opportunities at United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

Specific objectives and outcomes: 

Specific Objective 1: Landscape analysis and risk assessment

• To carry out an in-depth diagnostic assessment of the sustainability landscape surrounding the uptake of project deliverables including to identify enablers and barriers to long-term adoption and outline key sustainability risks and mitigation measures. Currently, each SEA-MaP deliverable has considered sustainability and long-term uptake in isolation and to various extents. The landscape analysis will consolidate existing strategies into a unified approach that builds from synergies and avoids duplicative actions.

Expected contributions to the Strategy include:

• A consolidated landscape analysis of key legal frameworks and policy initiatives at the ASEAN and AMS-level mapped to the objectives of each SEA-MaP deliverable, based on existing landscape analyses developed under each workstream. 
• A gaps and needs analysis including institutional capacities of ASEAN and AMS
• A risk assessment and mitigation plan based upon identified internal and external influencing factors.
• A synthesis of key findings and significant implications.

Specific Objective 2: Strategy consolidation and implementation planning

• To integrate all analytical findings and stakeholder feedback into a comprehensive, actionable Sustainability Strategy, supported by a phased Roadmap aligned with the agreed timeframe.

Expected components of the final Strategy include:

• A mapping of all SEA-MaP project deliverables, consolidating key findings and recommendations into a coherent and streamlined framework.
• A consolidated and validated Sustainability Strategy on the post-project management of SEA-MaP products and deliverables reflecting ASEAN and AMS priorities and institutional and financial capacities.
• A consolidated communication and engagement plan providing consolidated, harmonized and streamlined messaging across all SEA-MaP deliverables and key beneficiaries.
• An itemized budget and a financial sustainability plan for the implementation of key recommendations at the ASEAN and AMS level.
• A Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) framework with indicators and reporting mechanisms.
• A phased five-year Roadmap outlining implementation pathways for various AMS contexts, proposed responsible entities, and milestones, highlighting specific next steps for the first year post-project closure and required roles, responsibilities and contributions for key project partners.
• A dissemination-ready synthesis report and presentation documents for stakeholders.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in environmental policy, development studies, public administration, or a related field with 12 years of relevant experience OR
• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in environmental policy, development studies, public administration, or a related field with 10 years of relevant experience is required.

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Functions / Key Results Expected

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
• Identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, risks, and areas for improvement in current practices, including an assessment of service standards.
• Design and document 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.

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 prioritisation of the key business processes.
• Enhance internal guidelines and operational manuals for priority procedures, and provide recommendations for aligning IT-related business processes with digital transformation efforts.
• Define a validation process with key stakeholders, and outline an action plan for implementation.

Contract Implementation Support: UNOPS will tender several activities through public procurement. The expert will be:

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

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;
• Support integration of the M&E framework into the BPR Action Plan and implementation sequencing.
• Provide recommendations on the use of KPIs for ongoing performance monitoring and future reform phases.

Knowledge Management and Capacity Building

• Provide technical inputs to working groups set-up during the course of the project.
• Provide 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.
• Identify best practices at the EU level in view of knowledge transfer and study visits organisation.

Required

• 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.