Projectmanager Benin

Assignment description

Kadaster
The Netherlands’ Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency – in short Kadaster – collects and registers administrative and spatial data on property and the rights involved. This also goes for ships, aircraft and telecom networks. Doing so, Kadaster protects legal certainty. We are also responsible for national mapping and maintenance of the national reference coordinate system. Furthermore, we are an advisory body for land-use issues and national spatial data infrastructures.

Our information is available predominantly through online web services, including information on energy labels of houses and underground cables and pipelines. Our main customer groups are civil-law notaries, local authorities, businesses, financial institutions and private individuals. Kadaster maintains the Key Registers Cadastre and Topography. 

Kadaster performs its public tasks in service of society. This is reflected in the way we are organised and the ways in which we publicly account for how we work.

Description of the project in which the employee is put to work:
Kadaster International is looking for a project manager/advisor land administration for our project in Benin. 

Background information on the project
Benin is a stable, French speaking country in Western Africa. Despite a new modern national law on land administration the progress of registered parcels is slow. Financed by the Dutch embassy in Benin, MDF Consultancy, VNG International and Kadaster executed a project to set up the infrastructure for an efficient and affordable land administration. Now, together with MDF and VNG, Kadaster is taking part in the preparatory project for the scaling of the national cadastre in Benin (PPMEC). The National Land Registry Agency (ANDF), municipalities, notaries, surveyors and civil society organisations are preparing to manage the national cadastre in a sustainable manner.

Assignment description
For the execution of the project activities of Kadaster in this project, you have a double role as project manager as well as Advisor on Land administration. You are the designated person to realise the project objectives on behalf of Kadaster International. You organise, monitor and report on the project objectives to the regional manager of Kadaster International.

Responsibilities 
The most important tasks and responsibilities are: 

• Enabling the team of advisors who contribute to the project from Kadaster via short-term missions to perform their duties

• Providing strategic advice to the so-called ‘PPMEC project team’

• Helping to develop a plan for follow-up financing of the project

• Coordinating the final report for the Kadaster parts of the project

• Coordinating the project administration

Availability
The candidate can be deployed from 1 October 2024 until 30 september 2026 for a maximum of 70 working days (70 x 8 hours) per year. The hiring assignment can optionally be extended with 1 year and has a notice period of one (1) month for the entire period. The start date is subject to a timely completion of the quotation procedure. This may also mean that the start date of the assignment can be postponed. No rights can therefore be derived from the start date stated in the Request for Quotation.

Mandatory

• Mandatory statement of your certified copy of the Chamber of Commerce. This must show the signatory's authority to sign this agreement.

• You only add one resume. This resume should show that you meet the requirements below. If, in the opinion of Kadaster, you do not meet the requirements, your offer will be set aside and will not be included in the assessment of the award criteria. Below are the requirements the candidate must meet. For each requirement, please explain (briefly) why you believe the candidate meets the requirement. Referring to the CV is not sufficient.

• You have a MSc in the field of land administration or geo-information or a related field.

• You have at least 15 years of experience as an advisor in international consultancy, in different countries and preferably in Western Africa, on the subjects of land administration/land governance/land information systems and IT or related areas.

• You have at least 15 years of experience in project management, preferably in land administration projects and large IT projects.

• You have a good understanding of the land administration domain in Benin.

• Competencies the candidate should have: • Analytical ability; • Persuasiveness; • Didactic skills; • Intercultural communication and strong written and oral skills in French and Dutch.

Award criteria

• You give a description of the approach (max. 300 words) for the work to be carried out based on the most important tasks and responsibilities for the specific issues of Kadaster (see also assignment description and responsibilities). Assessment: The extent to which the description of approach matches the wishes of Kadaster (60%)

• You clearly show (max. 300 words) how the expertise and competencies you have delivered within the outlined situation contribute to the results to be achieved (see also assignment description and responsibilities). Assessment: The better the expertise and competencies match the wishes of Kadaster and the outlined situation, the higher the score (40%)