Consultants Roster

About Landesa

Grounded in the knowledge that having legal rights to land is a foundation for prosperity and opportunity, Landesa partners with governments and local organizations to ensure that those experiencing the most extreme forms of poverty have secure rights over the land they steward. Founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1967, Landesa has helped more than 100 million families living in poverty gain legal control over their land. With secure land rights, these families can eat better, earn more, educate their children, practice conservation, and achieve dignity for generations. For additional information, visit the Landesa website at www.landesa.org.

Landesa supplements its regular staff with the expertise of skilled international consultants. We maintain and periodically review an active roster of consultants in support of our program needs. This vacancy is posted for anticipated consulting positions: we encourage consultants with specialized skills in legal, policy, and monitoring and evaluation issues related to land access and tenure security to submit their qualifications to be considered for inclusion in our roster.

The window to apply for the roster is open four times per year for a period of one month: the next available window is June 1-30, 2023.

Availability

The Consultants’ scope of work and level of effort will be determined in accordance with specific opportunities as they arise.

Consultancy Summary

Landesa is currently looking for skilled international consultants to be included in its Consultants Roster. We encourage consultants with a Land Tenure background to submit their qualifications in response to one of the following advanced vacancies:

• Land Tenure Specialist. Within the context of developing countries around the world, the Land Tenure Specialist provides policy, analytical, and implementation expertise on rural land tenure security, access to land, women’s land rights, land rights formalization, land markets, land administration, land management, resolution of land disputes, and related fields, including food security, agricultural productivity, corporate services and partnerships, and natural resource management. The Land Tenure Specialist conducts analyses (both from the desk and in the field), and prepares and presents analytical reviews, research and briefing papers, advisory memos, training modules, presentations, and other products.
• Climate Change Specialist. The Climate Change Specialist contributes to advance Landesa’s Africa and Asia programs’ climate mitigation and adaptation efforts on the ground. Landesa prioritizes climate action strategies that center smallholder rights and sustainable rural livelihoods as essential to effective, long-term climate mitigation and adaptation. The Climate Change Specialist will support Landesa’s ongoing projects that have an emphasis on advancing sustainable forest management, land use planning, and securing sustainable livelihoods for communities living within or adjacent to forests. This individual should be able to address questions such as: How are land and resource tenure regimes likely to change in a world where climate conditions are also changing? What flexible and politically acceptable approaches to tenure and rights exist? How might these approaches differ for individual versus collective tenure regimes? What incentive structures and pragmatic approaches can be designed to support sustainable livelihoods and climate mitigation targets at the same time? Working closely with Landesa Africa and Asia program colleagues, the Specialist develops climate change capacity of Landesa staff, and manages relevant assignments and tasks.
• Gender Specialist. The Gender Specialist provides gender analysis expertise in design, implementation, and learning related to land rights programming across Landesa’s work, including applying an intersectional gender analysis to technical areas including: increased access to land in the context of communal property and natural resource settings; supporting stronger and more equitable inheritance rights for women and girls; rural land tenure security on customary land; a range of land rights formalization approaches; increased access to land markets for rural land rights holders; land administration and management; access to government extension programs; access to justice; gender-based violence prevention and mitigation; resolution of land and related natural resource disputes; and climate change impacts and mitigation and adaptation approaches. The Gender Specialist will provide technical input related to the goal of equality for women and girls in the context of land programming, and support integrating gender expertise with an intersectional lens (accounting for other marginalized identities and groups) across designated programs and projects. The Gender Specialist can also conduct gender analyses, draft research and briefing papers, advisory memos, training modules, presentations, advocacy materials, and other products and participate in global advocacy efforts focused on gender equality and women’s land rights.

Physical and Environmental Conditions

Work is primarily performed indoors with some potential for exposure to safety and health hazards related to electronics work. This position does not require unusual demands for physical effort. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts that require normal safety precautions typical of places such as offices, meeting or training rooms, residences, or commercial vehicles, e.g., use of safe workplace practices with office equipment, and/or avoidance of trips and falls, and observance of fire regulations and traffic signals.

Work Environment and Working Conditions for Travelers to Developing Countries

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to working conditions and hazards which are prevalent for the location and/or country of assignment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Work is primarily performed indoors with some potential for exposure to safety and health hazards related to electronics work. The employee may be required to travel overseas and domestically. When traveling in a developing country, the employee may be exposed to: Physical Hazards (illnesses, noise, extreme temperatures, wet or humid climates, etc.) Road Hazards (unfinished/dirt roads, potholes, traffic-related accidents, etc.), and Atmospheric Conditions (odors, dust, fumes, smog, etc.).

Equal employment opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Landesa. Landesa is committed to a work environment in which relationships are characterized by dignity, courtesy, and respect. We are committed to nondiscrimination in all of our business operations and embrace diversity as a key strategic philosophy and strength of how we do our global work. Landesa actively seeks diverse candidates for employment.