Adjudication and Case Processing Assistant (Asistente de Adjudicación y Tramitación de casos)

UN Development Programme - UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean

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Overview

The Adjudication and Case Processing Assistant will advise technical teams on legal procedures related to titling processes and manage peaceful resolution of disputes arising from cadastral and titling management.


Key Responsibilities
  • Apply cadastral regulations and organize documentation.
  • Examine legal information to determine adjudicable or non-adjudicable areas.
  • Provide guidance and support on the correct use of mass regularization and titling forms.
  • Review and analyze legal aspects of files, ensuring required legal documentation.
  • Identify files with conflicts, disagreements, complaints, or petitions and manage their resolution.
  • Organize files, prepare reports and transmittal notes.
  • Follow up on procedures submitted to the competent authority.
  • Prepare reports or notes on legal situations identified in files.
  • Support the field team in reviewing registry and cadastral background.
  • Advise and accompany public institutions on mass titling regulations and procedures.
  • Support the follow-up of registration procedures with the Public Registry.
  • Support knowledge creation and exchange relevant to the assigned project.
  • Attend consultations from the project team on cadastral and land titling regulations.
  • Support public exhibition activities and title deliveries.
  • Support the project in meetings, diligences, and activities related to the cadastral and titling process.
  • Support beneficiaries with information and guidance on mass titling procedures.
Required Experience
  • Minimum five (5) years (with complete secondary education) or two (2) years (with a technical degree or complete Bachelor's degree) of proven professional experience in handling legal, administrative, or judicial procedures, including procedures before the Public Registry, Notaries, and the National Land Administration Authority (ANATI).
  • Experience in competent handling of Microsoft 365 tools.
  • Experience in preparing structured technical reports.
  • Experience in document management, including review, organization, and analysis of files.
  • Experience in public service, providing understandable guidance, respectful treatment, and confidential information management.
  • Experience in land titling procedures, including understanding requirements and processes before competent land adjudication entities.
  • Experience in interpreting survey plans and other related technical documents.
  • Experience in organizing and managing inventories of files or cadastral documentation.
  • Experience in presenting and managing procedures before the Public Registry.
Qualifications
  • Complete secondary education is required.
  • University degree (complete Bachelor's) in Law and Political Science, with eligibility issued by the Supreme Court of Justice, will be given due consideration, but is not a requirement.
Other Details
Languages Required
Español
Languages Preferred
Not specified
Contract Duration
1 Year with Possibility for extension
Work Modality
The work will be carried out at the project's Support Technical Unit office in Capira, Panama Oeste province, and primarily in the Indio River Hydrographic Basin, as well as in other sub-basins of the Panama Canal Hydrographic Basin. Activities may also be executed at associated institutions' facilities and intervention areas, including difficult-to-access zones. Extended hours, weekends, and holidays may be required, along with travel and temporary stays in intervention areas. Extraordinary expenses for mobilization and lodging for these activities will be covered by the project.
Remuneration
Not specified
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