Local Land Administration Specialist; Shida Kartli Region

Job Description – Local Land Administration Specialist (Shida Kartli Region) (2601235)

Local Land Administration Specialist (Shida Kartli Region)

Organizational Unit: FEGEO

Type of Requisition: NPP (National Project Personnel)

Primary

Location:

Georgia

Duration: 3 months, with possibility for extension.

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• Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non‑and under‑represented Members and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
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The position is located at the FAO Representation in Georgia. The main aim of the FAO country offices, which are headed by the FAO Representative, is to assist governments in developing policies, programmes and projects to achieve food security and to reduce hunger and malnutrition, to help develop the agricultural, fisheries and forestry sectors, and to use their environmental and natural resources in a sustainable manner.

The Local Land Administration Specialist will be recruited under the UTF/GEO/034/GEO‑F project titled: “Formulation and design of Land Consolidation in Georgia” (hereafter referred to as “UTF Project”). The position will focus on providing local support to the project in selected pilot areas (pilots to be selected in Kareli, Gori and/or Kaspi municipalities).

The overarching goal of the project is to support the introduction of a fully operational land consolidation instrument in Georgia integrated with irrigation rehabilitation in the World Bank Georgia Resilient Agriculture, Irrigation, and Land (GRAIL) Project. The project is expected to contribute to future increased agricultural production and investments, more efficient use of land and water, more dynamic agricultural land markets, improved access to credit, and improved access to land and strengthened land rights, including for women who own land alone or jointly with men.

Land consolidation in Georgia is expected to result in more efficient farm structures through reduction of land fragmentation and the voluntary facilitation of farm enlargement, contributing to local agricultural development.

Land consolidation will be introduced in a multi‑purpose approach, integrating the objective of agricultural development with additional public objectives related to nature, environment and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

The project will result in a National Land Consolidation Strategy document, a legal framework assessment for land consolidation, initiation of implementation of land consolidation pilot projects, initiation of a country‑wide multicriteria assessment for future land consolidation efforts and the initial development of technical and administrative capacity for implementation of land consolidation projects and management of a future national land consolidation programme.

The incumbent will work under the overall responsibility of the FAO Representative for Georgia, and the direct supervision of the National Project Coordinator, National GIS and Data Specialist, and in close collaboration with all relevant units of the FAO Country Office in Georgia and international experts.

The incumbent will provide technical support for the implementation of the UTF Project with a focus on all land consolidation related activities.

• Provide technical support for the successful implementation of the land consolidation pilot project under the GRAIL project in selected rural areas under the technical supervision of FAO and the operational supervision…