ZOA is in search of a temporary consultant to provide technical leadership in Land Rights contributing to quality implementation, monitoring, and donor compliance of ZOA Uganda’s Land Rights projects for three months.

S/He ensures that training of staff and partners, coaching, learning, and technical monitoring is carried out regularly. The Land Rights Advisor is responsible for overseeing proposal development and exploring new Land Rights project opportunities on behalf of ZOA Uganda. The consultancy requires considerable time spent at project locations and coordinating with stakeholders, partners, and donors.

Aim of this assignment

The main responsibility of the Land Rights Consultant is to ensure high quality Land Rights programme design, implementation, and evaluation of projects by providing technical support with expertise and knowledge of Land Rights in Uganda, with a primary focus on Customary Land Ownership and subsequent transactions.

Activities

Programme quality.

Provides high quality technical support to the implementation of ZOA Uganda’s Land Rights projects;
Supports Land Rights projects throughout the project management cycle, including technical review of programmatic tasks;
Contributes to the development and implementation of Land Rights Monitoring, Evaluation Accountability and Learning (MEAL) plans;
Collaborates with ZOA International’s Sector Specialist Land Rights concerning quality standards and policy compliance, proposal reviews, learning, and funding opportunities;
Learning and capacity strengthening

Builds capacity of Land Rights project staff on key project concepts and approaches;
Builds capacity and ensures capacity strengthening of co-implementing partner(s) in line with identified needs;
Proposal development

Leads or participates in the development of high-quality Land Rights project proposals;
Reporting

Reviews donor reports in line with contractual obligations and technical standards;
Other activities

Provides input to communication and visibility efforts, e.g. online, printed materials, ZOA’s international website;
Supports the recruitment of project staff; when necessary, reviewing the job descriptions, participating in job interviews;
Any other duty assigned by the Manager of Programme Quality